Eva Mendes

Mendes in 2011, CarlaVanWagoner / Shutterstock.com

Birth Name: Eva De La Caridad Mendez

Place of Birth: Miami, Florida, U.S.

Date of Birth: March 5, 1974

Ethnicity: Cuban [Spanish, some African, possibly other]

Eva Mendes is an American actress, model, and businessperson. Her films include Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror, My Brother the Pig, Urban Legends: Final Cut, Exit Wounds, Training Day, All About the Benjamins, 2 Fast 2 Furious, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Out of Time, Stuck on You, Hitch, The Wendell Baker Story, Guilty Hearts, Trust the Man, Ghost Rider, We Own the Night, Live!, Cleaner (2007), The Women, The Spirit (2008), Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, The Other Guys, Last Night (2010), Holy Motors, Girl in Progress, The Place Beyond the Pines, and Lost River. She has been an ambassador for Calvin Klein, Cartier, Reebok, Pantene shampoo, Morgan, and Peek & Cloppenburg, has designed for workwear retailer New York & Company, and is creative director of makeup line CIRCA Beauty.

Eva was born in Miami, Florida, to Cuban parents, Eva Perez Suarez, who worked at a movie theatre and an aerospace company, and Juan Carlos Mendes, who ran a meat distribution business. She has said that she has African-Cuban ancestry. She speaks Spanish fluently. Eva was raised mostly by her mother in Los Angeles’s Silver Lake neighborhood.

Eva has two children with her partner, Canadian-born actor, writer, director, musician, and producer Ryan Gosling.

One of Eva’s grandmothers was named Amada.

Mendes in 2008, photo credit: Thierry Caro

ethnic

Curious about ethnicity

110 Responses

    • zachbickle says:

      Cristina Marino was born Miano. But her father is sicilian and her mother is apulian.

    • porkarella says:

      You’re the same you say Shakira Is European haha what a troll.
      Then they’re totally different they don’t look even relatives.
      I’m a real Italian living in Italy not a fake another arab/hispanic/Indian whatever you are another non European who believe to be like us she’s not Italian, she’s both Hispanic and Arab too cause her face is typically of Northern Africans and Mid Easterns, she has strong Arab background who she inherited from her Spaniard ancestors of Arab origin.
      Marino absolutely isn’t a real native Northern Italian like she’s not native Central Italian and not native Southern Italian she’s of adoptive Neapolitan origin cause her surname it’s native of Naples region but her real roots are Arab her face says it, only the Southerns and mixed to them have this face.
      Native Northern and Central Italians are Alpine of very light colors and delicate features.
      Like her Federica Fontana another celeb:
      https://images.app.goo.gl/ZFsjcHMuQQjr9twn8

      Sad for you non white you’ll never be Euro, you can try every ——— — to seem ridicuously Euro but you can’t be can’t change your identity.

  1. zachbickle says:

    she doesn’t look like a Taino at all. maybe a little bit african. undeniable she completely looks like mediterranean/southern spanish/andalucian. Olive skin, long face, greek nose, brown eyes, wavy hair etc…

  2. anen87 says:

    Along time ago I remember reading Eva saying her grandmother is a black woman. She shot to fame and that article mysteriously disappeared. Rewind to present day BLM protests going on, she admits on instagram post being proud of her afro-cuban roots. https://www.instagram.com/p/CAtFF8mDUH4/
    I knew I wasn’t crazy, I have good memory.
    Please add Afro-Cuban to her ethnicity.

  3. Devotion says:

    Has both Spanish and Native in her. But I see the Spanish side more.

  4. cwm85 says:

    Used to have a thing for her until she hooked up with Gosling…

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