File:Michelle_Rodriguez_Cannes_2018_cropped.jpg · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons
OverviewAI-generated
Michelle Rodriguez, born Mayte Michelle Rodriguez on July 12, 1978, in San Antonio, is an American actor, television actor, film actor, and voice actor. She began her work period in 1999 and is a citizen of the United States. Her ethnic background includes Dominican Americans and Stateside Puerto Ricans. Rodriguez has spoken and written in English, with American English as her native language.
Her notable works include *Girlfight*, *Fast & Furious*, and *Resident Evil*. She has received the Film Independent Spirit Awards, Actor Awards, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series. Additionally, she has been nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series, the MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Duo, and the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actress.
Synthesized by Vinony from 38 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, Last.fm, TMDb, MusicBrainz, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 21
Top works
- Manifestations of a Phantom's Soul, the Untold Darkness
- Heart That Beats Eternally
- Scripted in Love's Scars
- Untouchable
- Snow Angels
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Bexar County, Texas, USA
Mayte Michelle Rodríguez (born July 12, 1978) is an American actress. She began her career in 2000, playing a troubled boxer in the independent sports drama film Girlfight (2000), where she won the Independent Spirit Award and Gotham Award for Best Debut Performance. Rodriguez played Letty Ortiz in the Fast & Furious franchise and Rain Ocampo in the Resident Evil franchise. She has starred in the…
Known for
- Snakes and Ladders2025
- Women Wearing Shoulder Pads — Rubia Salamandra (voice)2025
- The Private Lives of Jordi Molla' & Domingo Zapata — Michelle Rodriguez2024
- Getting LOST — Self (archive footage)2024
- Fast & Furious Greatest Moments: Refuelled — Self2023
- Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves — Holga2023
- Fast X — Letty2023
- Gianluca Vacchi - Mucho Más — Self2022
- The Revolution Generation — Self2022
- Barmageddon — Self - Contestant2022
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1978
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 40
- Total plays
- 283
Mayte Michelle Rodriguez (born July 12, 1978), 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 (2001); Blue Crush (2002); Resident Evil (2002); S.W.A.T. (2003); Fast & Furious (2009) and James Cameron's Avatar (2009), as well as for her role as Ana Lucia Cortez in the television series Lost (2005–20
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The REDCap consortium: Building an international community of software platform partners
· 2019 · cited 21,728x
- Physisorption of gases, with special reference to the evaluation of surface area and pore size distribution (IUPAC Technical Report)
· 2015 · cited 19,592x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,787x
- Embryonic Stem Cell Lines Derived from Human Blastocysts
· 1998 · cited 12,837x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,997x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “I quit high school really young, and I always loved information. I'm a self-taught kind of chick. I don't have any tactics on studying, memorizing things. It's selective memory. If I feel like it's going to be a prominent factor in the future, then I will remember that.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Rodríguez
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- San Antonio
- Occupation
- film producer
- Languages spoken
- American English
- Native language
- American English
- Notable work
- Resident Evil
- Official website
- www.michelle-rodriguez.com/home.htm
- Image
- Michelle Rodriguez Dec 2009.jpg
Show 12 more facts
- birth name
- Mayte Michelle Rodriguez
- Commons gallery
- Michelle Rodriguez
- start of work period
- 1999-00-00
- nominated for
- Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actress
- name in native language
- Michelle Rodriguez
- social media followers
- 38800
- writing language
- English language
- unmarried partner
- Zac Efron
- ethnic group
- Dominican Americans
- sexual orientation
- bisexuality
- Commons category
- Michelle Rodriguez
- date of birth
- 1978-07-12
Sources (11)
via Wikidata · CC0
~9 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Mayte Michelle Rodríguez (born July 12, 1978) is an American actress. She began her career in 2000, playing a troubled boxer in the independent sports drama film Girlfight (2000), where she won the Independent Spirit Award and Gotham Award for Best Debut Performance. Rodriguez played Letty Ortiz in the Fast & Furious franchise (2001, 2009–present) and Rain Ocampo in the Resident Evil franchise (2002, 2012). She has starred in the crime thriller S.W.A.T. (2003), James Cameron's science fiction epic Avatar (2009), and in the action film Battle: Los Angeles (2011).
After playing Minerva Mirabal in the biopic Trópico de Sangre (2010), Rodriguez headlined the exploitation films Machete (2010) and Machete Kills (2013), and starred in the animated comedy films Turbo (2013) and Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017), while her performance in the heist film Widows (2018) was critically praised.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Michelle Rodriguez” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Gallery (6)
Available in 76 languages
- Español
- Français
- Deutsch
- 中文
- 日本語
- Русский
- Português
- Italiano
- العربية
- हिन्दी
- Afrikaans
- Armenian
- Asturian
- azb
- Azerbaijani
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Bangla
- Basque
Show 57 more
- be_x_old
- Breton
- Bulgarian
- Catalan
- Cebuano
- Central Kurdish
- Cornish
- Croatian
- Czech
- dag
- Danish
- Egyptian Arabic
- Esperanto
- Estonian
- Finnish
- Galician
- Georgian
- Greek
- Haitian Creole
- Hausa
- Hebrew
- Hungarian
- Kazakh
- Kyrgyz
- Latin
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Maithili
- Malay
- Mingrelian
- Nederlands
- Nepali
- Norwegian
- Norwegian Nynorsk
- Polski
- Romanian
- Serbian
- Serbian (Latin)
- simple
- Slovak
- Svenska
- Swahili
- Tamil
- Tatar
- Telugu
- Tiếng Việt
- Türkçe
- Ukrainian
- Urdu
- Uzbek
- Welsh
- Wu Chinese
- Yiddish
- zh_yue
- فارسی
- ไทย
- 한국어
via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0