Eva Mendes: Snapshot

  Name

Eva Mendes

Date of Birth

March 05, 1974

Birth Place

Miami, Fla.

One nude scene with Denzel Washington in 2001's Training Day turned then-unknown beauty Eva Mendes into a star. Within the next two years, the sultry Cuban bombshell went from Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror to appearing in five major films, including 2 Fast 2 Furious and Stuck on You.

The Los Angeles-bred Latina got her start in commercials, even appearing in Will Smith's (her future Hitch costar) ''Miami'' music video. Mendes has since starred with two of PEOPLE's Sexiest Man Alive honorees, Johnny Depp and Matt Damon, and lent her face to both Revlon and Calvin Klein.