Michelle Rodriguez
- Born: 12 Jul, 1978
Evincing a charismatic screen presence that recalled a female version of Marlon Brando, Michelle Rodriguez became an overnight star as Diana Guzman, a troubled high school senior who builds self-esteem and discovers her calling as a boxer in the affecting Sundance entry "Girlfight" (2000). After a somewhat peripatetic childhood that saw her family move from Texas to her mother's native Dominican Republic to her father's home of Puerto Rico, she and her family finally settled in Jersey City, New Jersey. Rodriguez dropped out of high school (eventually earning her GED) and passed her time landing extra work in movies filmed in NYC (like "Cradle Will Rock" and "Summer of Sam", both 1999). Answering an advertisement for an open casting to play a woman boxer, she a...
FAMILY & COMPANIONS
- father Rafael Rodriguez: Puerto Rican; separated from Rodriguez's mother c. 1986; died in 1997
- mother Carmen Rodriguez: Dominican; separated from Rodriguez's father c. 1986
- siblings : reportedly has a total of ten brothers and sisters, including some she has never met
- brother Omar Rodriguez: born c. 1970; twin of Raul
- brother Raul Rodriguez: born c. 1970; twin of Omar
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