JORDANA BREWSTER

'Jordana Brewster' (born April 26, 1980) is an American actress, best known for her roles in ''The Fast and the Furious'', '', ''The Faculty'', ''D.E.B.S.'', and ''Annapolis''.

Contents

Biography

Early life

Career

Personal life

Family

Selected filmography

References

External links

Biography

Early life

Jordana Brewster was born in Panama City, Panama to Alden Brewster, an American investment banker, and Maria João Leal de Sousa, a former ''Sports Illustrated'' swimsuit model from Brazil.^[1] She left Panama when she was two months old, relocating to London where she would spend six years before moving to her mother's native Rio de Janiero, Brazil. She left Brazil at the age of ten, settling in Manhattan, New York, where she would live for the next fifteen years. Brewster studied at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in New York and graduated from the Professional Children's School in New York. She then enrolled at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, graduating in 2003. Her paternal grandfather Kingman Brewster, Jr. was president of Yale from 1963-1977.

Career

Brewster made her debut on the daytime soap opera, ''All My Children'', in a one-time appearance playing Anita Santos. Brewster returned to daytime on ''As the World Turns'' as Nikki Munson from 1995 to 1998. Her role as Mia Toretto in ''The Fast and the Furious'' has been her most popular to date. She had a small role as an Actress in Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! but her scenes were deleted. She played criminal mastermind Lucy Diamond in Angela Robinson's 2005 film, ''D.E.B.S.''. Her most current role is "Chrissie" in '', which was released on October 6, 2006. She was recently cast in the upcoming show known as ''Mr and Mrs. Smith''. The show will pickup 6 months after the events of the movie Mr. and Mrs. Smith with her playing the role formerly donned by Angelina Jolie.

Personal life

She dated Mark Wahlberg from 2000 to June 2001 and has also recently dated Derek Jeter in 2002, Jay Penske, and Mark McGrath from 2003 to 2004. In 2002 ''Stuff'' magazine named her the 96th hottest woman in their "102 Sexiest Women in the World". In 2005 ''Maxim'' magazine named her the 54th sexiest woman in the world in their annual Hot 100. In 2006 Maxim ranked her at #59 on their Hot 100. She was also placed 8th on afterellen.com's 100 hottest women list. [1]
She has a cat named Delilah, after her movie character in ''The Faculty''.
She has a Labrador retriever named Ella who turned one year old on December 3, 2006.
After she dated him for a year, she became engaged to Andrew Form (who worked as a producer on '') on November 4, 2006, and told ''Us Weekly'', "It wasn't a total surprise, but it was very spontaneous. It's going to be a pretty small destination wedding -- next November."
Married to Andrew Form in a private ceremony in the Bahamas May 6, 2007.^[2]

Family

Brewster's Grandfather is Kingman Brewster, Jr., former President of Yale University. Her mother is Maria João, the former ''Sports Illustrated'' swimsuit model from Brazil. Her father is an investment banker. She has a younger sister named Isabella, who is 24. Her grandfathers were ambassadors to Great Britain.

Selected filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2006	''	Chrissie
	''Annapolis''	Ali
	''Sean Lennon's Friendly Fire''	(?)
2005	''D.E.B.S.''	Lucy Diamond	limited release
	''Nearing Grace'	Grace
2001	''The Fast and the Furious''	Mia Toretto
	''The Invisible Circus''	Phoebe
1999	''The '60s''	Sarah Weinstock
1998	''The Faculty''	Delilah Profitt

References

1. Jordana Brewster profile
2. Us Exclusive: Jordana Brewster Engaged

External links

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