Eva Mendes had always harbored dreams of becoming an actress. At her school in Los Angeles she took acting lessons and almost as soon as she had completed her education she was snapped up by an agent who could obviously sense that there was potential in her. Her first roles were in advertisements and in music videos; one notable performance coming in the Will Smith video for the song ‘Miami’. She then went on to play minor roles in films; her first coming in Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror, which went straight to video upon release.

Her first lead role came in the film Hitch, starring alongside Will Smith. Playing the role of Sara Melas she attempts to unmask Hitch, who is seen as a Love Doctor and expose him as something of a fraud. Hitch finds himself falling for her, but she is having none of it; she wants retribution for Hitch’s role in embarrassing one of her friends (a client had a one night stand with her). Her performance was one of the factors in the success of the film and soon led to more acting work for the aspiring actor. She played Roxanne Simpson in the film Ghost Rider and even managed a brief cameo appearance in the film Knocked up, although she was not credited for it. Currently, Mendes is working on a film called Southbound; details of her role are unknown but she is currently filming and the finished article is due to come out in late 2011.

Eva Mendas is a gorgeous Cuban-American actress who began her acting career in the late 1990s. Although she played in a number of small film roles, she received her big break for her role in Training Day. Training Day is the 2001 film directed by Antoine Fuqua that follows two detectives over the time-span of 24 hours through gang-infested neighborhoods of Lost Angeles. Eva Mendes is featured in the film as corrupt cop Alonzo Harris’s girlfriend in a scene that is still talked about even today.

Eva’s role in the film Training day is small but memorable when Eva combines her acting talent with her good looks to take part in a racy nude scene. It was during this time that she nailed her role as Sara in this box office hit while also making a scene to remember for years to come. Her role in Training Day led to many other roles.

After Training Day, Eva was able to play in other well-known films including 2 fast 2 Furious and Hitch. Both movies turned out to be major box office hits with a mixture of action and comedies. Medes has been able to costar with actors like Denzel Washington and Will Smith, breaking out into a distinction in acting as an actress in her own right. Overall, Training Day served as an important movie to bring her to fame and helped launch her movie career and make her what she is today.