Michelle Rodriguez
Biography
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 portrayed Rain Ocampo in the Resident Evil franchise. She appeared in the crime thriller S.W.A.T. (2003), and later starred in James Cameron's science fiction epic Avatar (2009) and the action film Battle: Los Angeles (2011).
After portraying Minerva Mirabal in the biopic Trópico de Sangre (2010), Rodriguez headlined the exploitation films Machete (2010) and Machete Kills (2013), and starred in the computer-animated comedy films Turbo (2013) and Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017), while her performance in the heist film Widows (2018) was critically praised.
Outside of film, Rodriguez played Ana Lucia Cortez in the drama television series Lost (2005–2006; 2009–2010) and voiced Liz Ricarro in the English-language translation of the anime Immortal Grand Prix (2005–2006).
She reprised her roles in video game spin-offs of Avatar and Fast & Furious, and also appeared in True Crime: Streets of LA (2003), Driver 3 (2004), Halo 2 (2004), and Call of Duty: Black Ops II (2012).
Known for
Actor
Fast X as Letty
F9: The Fast Saga as Letty Ortiz
The Fate of the Furious as Letty
Furious 7 as Letty
Fast & Furious 6 as Letty
Resident Evil: Retribution as Rain Ocampo
Avatar as Trudy Chacon
Fast & Furious as Letty
Resident Evil as Rain Ocampo
The Fast and the Furious as Letty