Biography
Michelle Rodriguez is an American actress. Born Mayte Michelle Rodríguez on 12 July 1978 in San Antonio, Texas, she made her film debut in the independent drama Girlfight (2000), playing a troubled boxer. For this performance she received the Independent Spirit Award and Gotham Award for Best Debut Performance.
Rodriguez is best known for portraying Letty Ortiz in the Fast & Furious franchise, beginning with The Fast and the Furious (2001), and Rain Ocampo in the Resident Evil series (2002 onwards). She has also appeared as Trudy Chacon in Avatar (2009) and as Ana Lucia Cortez in the television series Lost (2005–2010). Other credits include S.W.A.T. (2003), Battle: Los Angeles (2011) and Widows (2018). In 2023 she played Holga Kilgore in Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves and reprised her role as Letty in Fast X.
