Michelle Rodriguez

Born in San Antonio, Texas and growing up in the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and New Jersey, Rodriguez was destined for the tough chick roles she would later play, starting with Girlfight in 2000. Major stardom came with the Fast & Furious franchise.

Fashion: CinemaCon – Edge and Style from Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Emily BluntMargaret Gardiner Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Emily Blunt and Ryan Gosling showed individual style at the Universal Pictures and Focus Features presentation during CinemaCon in Las Vegas.  Always fly, Vin Diesel went with black and white with silver racing stripes.

Michelle Rodriguez, a fixture of the Fast and Furious franchise since 2001, spoke with HFPA journalists in 2000 about her film debut in Girlfight, written and directed by Karyn Kusama, where she played a teenage boxer. “Karyn made me watch Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire, and I was really impressed by his composure, then, later on, I did happen to see, Apocalypse Now and I was like, ‘Wow, this guy is pretty amazing.

When Quentin Tarantino comes to Cannes everyone steps up their game. Fashion had a fabulous night when A-listers walked the carpet at the premiere of Once Upon A Time in Hollywood.