Michelle Rodriguez Filmography

Mayte Michelle Rodríguez , known professionally as Michelle Rodriguez, is an American actress. Following on from her breakthrough role in 2000's Girlfight, she is best known for playing tough-girl roles and starring in Hollywood blockbusters such as The Fast and the Furious , Resident Evil , S.W.A.T. , Avatar , Machete and Battle: Los Angeles , as well as for her role as Ana Lucia Cortez in the television series Lost . Michelle Rodriguez was born in San Antonio, Texas. Her mother, Carmen Milady , is a native of the Dominican Republic, and her father, Rafael Rodriguez, is Puerto Rican... and served in the United States Army. She has a total of ten siblings and half-siblings. She was partly raised by her devoutly religious maternal grandmother and was brought up as one of Jehovah's Witnesses , though she has since abandoned that faith. Rodriguez moved to the Dominican Republic with her mother when she was eight and lived in Puerto Rico until the age of eleven, later settling in Jersey City, New Jersey.
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