The woman who flies the helicopter in Avatar

Michelle Rodriguez

Basic introduction

English name Michelle Rodriguez

Chinese translation name Michelle Rodri Getz/Michelle Roridges

Date of birth July 12, 1978

Birthplace Bexar County, Texas, USA

Country Region United States/ USA

Main identity Actress

Character introduction

Michelle Rodriguez: The girl who "defeated" Angelina

Angelina Jolie, an alternative beauty known in Hollywood for her unruly attitude and her own way of doing things, has met her opponent this time - this person is a Latina who is very much like Jolie in appearance and way of doing things. Beauty Michelle Rodriguez (Michelle Rodriguez). "Tomb Raider," the long-hyped movie starring Jolie, had just been doing well at the box office for a week before it was overshadowed by "The Fast and the Furious," starring Rodriguez as the female lead. Furious's ruthless suppression, it was suddenly pushed from the first place in the box office in its opening week to the third place in the second week. "The Fast and the Furious," about illegal drag racing in Los Angeles, may be the darkest box office hit so far this year. This production, which did not have a single big-name star and cost just US$30 million, earned US$41.6 million in its first week of release. Not only did it defeat last week's overblown champion "Tomb Raider", it also defeated the comedy "Tomb Raider". "Dr. Dolittle 2" starring superstar Eddie Murphy. Although "The Fast and the Furious" lost to director Spielberg's "Artificial Intelligence" (A.I.) in its second week of release, it still firmly occupies the second position at the box office, and has been in theaters for two weeks (10 days). Earned $77.8 million.

Michelle Rodriguez plays Letty, the girlfriend of drag racing master Toretto (played by Vin Diesel) in "The Fast and the Furious". Perhaps because of her unruly nature, Rodriguez told director Rob Cohen from the beginning that she did not want to play Lottie as a dispensable role in the film. The director listened to her. In the film, Lettie is as tough and violent as those rough street gangsters. She is even more impatient than her taller boyfriend and beats up another male dragster with whom she had a dispute.

"Speed" is only the second film of Rodriguez, who debuted just a year and a half ago. His screen debut was the famous "Girlfight". Although the box office performance of this independently produced and highly artistic film was not satisfactory and could not be compared with her second film, it was once selected by the jury of the Sundance Film Festival, which is known as a paradise for independent filmmakers in the world. Grand Prix (2000), and was also widely praised by public opinion at the Cannes Film Festival in the same year. How can Rodriguez, whose two films have been "accidentally" successful since his debut, be so lucky? How did this Latin girl, who is said to be a cross between Jennifer Lopez and Angelina Jolie, enter the film industry?

Michelle Rodriguez was born on July 12, 1978 in Bell County, Texas, USA. His mother is a member of a choir and his father is a university lecturer, both from Puerto Rico. When he was 8 years old, his family moved to the Dominican Republic, and two years later they moved to Puerto Rico for a year. Because his father later obtained a position at New York University, the family moved to New Jersey, near New York. After his parents divorced, Rodriguez lived with his strict mother and grandmother, but was able to often visit his dissolute father (who had 10 children with different women). Although her mother, grandmother, and father gave her many mixed and even contradictory educations and influences, Rodriguez's wild boy character was innate since she was a child and has never changed or wavered. The turbulent life made her often change schools, but no school seemed to suit her taste. Because she often talked back to teachers, she was kicked out of 6 schools.

Finally, at the age of 17, when she was expelled from school again, she felt she had had enough of school education and decided not to return to school. Years later, she explained: "I didn't want to be a 9-to-5 puppet. I was never a Barbie girl who just wanted to get married and have kids. I would wear a button-down shirt and jeans. , sitting with legs crossed, drinking beer, and assuming that I don’t need protection from men, but I didn’t know how to find a different life (at that time).”

Rodriguez, who had no one to guide him, decided on the path of movies. Although she has not even finished high school, she has always dreamed of writing movie scripts. To this end, while working in a "Toys'R'Us" in New Jersey to support herself, she paid as much attention as possible to the movie advertisements around her that were recruiting extras, in order to become a "swimming girl" who "learned to swim while swimming" "Opportunity. Before the fate-changing "Girls Punch", she applied for extras on and off for more than a year. Although she got a little compensation for this, it was the job in "Toys R Us" that made her financially independent. . "Girls Punch" was the ultimate reward for Rodriguez's dream and unremitting efforts. But what surprised everyone and herself even more was that as one of the more than 360 applicants who applied for extras that time, in the end, But it was she who became the protagonist of the film. Karyn Kusama, the director of "Girls Punch", said this when explaining why Rodriguez was finally selected: "We never expected that there would be so many girls applying. But Michelle seemed to have some Something unusual. She has a very wild simplicity and a very tough image, but her confidence, energy and personality make a stronger impression than her experience."

Thanks to director Kusama's discerning eye, Hollywood has gained another hard-core actress. Rodriguez's next film will be the movie version of "Resident Evil" based on the famous video game "Biohazard", in which he will play the "cold queen" Rain. One Corner - This will be another tough girl image that Rodriguez is familiar with. In "3 AM" (3 AM), cooperating with the famous black movie star Danny Glover, she will play a female taxi driver in New York. Perhaps this film can give fans an explanation as to whether Rodriguez can also play a sexy and softer woman.

But Rodriguez is Rodriguez after all, a girl full of rebellious spirit like Angelina Jolie. At the moment, Rodriguez is performing "The Vagina Monologues" on a theater stage in New York. For this stage situation that would inevitably shock most people upon hearing its name, Rodriguez took it in stride. She said: "I can talk about my vagina all day long, so the topic isn't what I'm worried about. I've only been out for a year and a half, and what I'm worried about is the audience's reaction and how to say it appropriately in front of all those people. Come up with all the lines and how to correct temporary mistakes."

The wild Rodriguez also has an unexpectedly conservative side. In her debut film "Girls Punch", because she was worried about being looked down upon by her mother, and not wanting to have her breasts kneaded by another man, she persuaded the director to change one of the passionate scenes to a simple kiss. Rodriguez even had a Muslim boyfriend, and they were talking about marriage. It wasn't until her boyfriend explained to her in detail all the rules and regulations that Muslim women should abide by that she finally awakened to her true nature and got over it in time. That love affair.

When he learned that "The Fast and the Furious" was scheduled to be released only one week after "Tomb Raider", Rodriguez felt that it was a frighteningly bad idea. But the result was that the unknown "Fast and Furious" defeated the popular "Tomb Raider". It is said that Angelina Jolie once wanted to retire after visiting Africa. Maybe Julie can retire.

She also participated in the filming of the second season of HBO's "Roma" and her performance was quite outstanding.

The movies he acted in.

TV series also include the following:

2001 "Fast and Furious" Part 1

2002 "Resident Evil" Part 1

2003 Anti-Terrorism SWAT Team

2005 Vampire Rayne 1

2006 "LOST" Season 2

2009 LOST Season 4 Guest appearance

2009 "The Fast and the Furious" Part 4

2009 Avatar