Michelle Rodriguez American Actress From San Antonio

Michelle Rodriguez is an American actress born on 12 July 1978 in San Antonio. Audiences know her from Avatar (2009) and Lost (2004).

Early life

She attended William L. Dickinson High School.

Career

The earliest of her listed screen credits is Cradle Will Rock, from 1999. Her 2000s credits include The Fast and the Furious (2001, as Leticia Ortiz) and Fast & Furious (2009, as Leticia Ortiz). During the 2010s, she worked on Fast Five (2011, as Leticia Ortiz) and Furious 7 (2015, as Leticia Ortiz). Work from the 2020s includes F9 (2021, as Leticia Ortiz) and Fast X (2023, as Leticia Ortiz, Letty Ortiz).

In total, 37 films and 2 TV series are listed from 1999 to 2025. Action is the most frequent genre among her listed titles (16), followed by thriller (12) and crime (7). The list ends, for now, with Mentiras, la serie (2025). Of her nine titles with worldwide box-office figures on record, Avatar (2009) has the highest, at $2.85 billion.

Vin Diesel appears in nine of her listed titles, including The Fate of the Furious (2017) and Fast & Furious 6 (2013). Other co-stars who recur in her credits are Jordana Brewster (seven titles) and Paul Walker (six titles). Justin Lin directed four of her titles on record. Robert Rodriguez is credited as director on three of them, including Machete (2010) and Machete Kills (2013).

As of June 2026, she counts 8.9M followers on Instagram. Other notable work credited to her includes Resident Evil and Girlfight.

Recognition

She won an award at the Film Independent Spirit Awards in 2001. Michelle Rodriguez also has received the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series (2006) for Lost. Altogether, 2 wins and 3 nominations are listed.