What is Eva Mendes’s net worth and salary?
Eva Mendes, a retired American actress, model, singer, and homeware designer, has a net worth of $20 million. Best known for her roles in “Training Day,” “2 Fast 2 Furious,” and “Hitch.”
Early Life and Education
Eva Mendes was born on March 5, 1974, in Miami, Florida, to Cuban parents, Eva Pérez Suárez and Juan Carlos Méndez. Her parents divorced when she was young, and she was raised by her mother in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles. She attended Hoover High School in Glendale, California, and briefly studied marketing at California State University, Northridge before dropping out to pursue acting.
Despite being raised in a Roman Catholic family, Eva considered becoming a nun at one point in her childhood.
Eva Mendes’ Career Highlights
Eva Mendes started her acting career in 1998 with a direct-to-video horror film, “Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror.” She also appeared in “A Night at the Roxbury,” “My Brother the Pig,” and “Urban Legends: Final Cut” in the same year.
Her breakthrough role came in 2001 when she starred opposite Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke in “Training Day.” She then appeared in “All About the Benjamins,” “2 Fast 2 Furious,” “Hitch,” and “The Place Beyond the Pines,” among others.
Aside from acting, Mendes also worked as a model and appeared in music videos for popular artists such as the Pet Shop Boys, Aerosmith, and Will Smith. She also became a spokesperson for Revlon in 2005 and launched her fashion line Eva by Eva Mendes in 2013.
Mendes is also involved with the makeup line CIRCA Beauty, which launched in 2015 and is sold in Walgreens stores. She released a line of dinnerware and bed linens through Macy’s.
Eva Mendes’ Personal Life
Eva Mendes dated filmmaker George Augusto from 2002 to 2010. She began dating actor Ryan Gosling in 2011, and the couple has two daughters. Their first, Esmeralda, was born in 2014, and their second, Amada, was born in 2016. Eva and Ryan got married in 2016 and are a very private couple. Mendes does not share photos of Gosling or their daughters on social media and rarely appears in public with her husband.
Mendes is a pescatarian and practices Transcendental Meditation. She had an older brother, Juan Carolos Mendez Jr., who died from throat cancer in 2016. She has an older sister named Janet and a younger half-brother Carlos Alberto Mendez on her dad’s side.
In September 2020, rumors started circulating that Mendes and Gosling’s relationship was in trouble. Reportedly, Mendes wants to have a third child, and Gosling does not. These rumors have not been substantiated.
Eva Mendes’ Real Estate Transactions
In 2018, Eva sold her three-bedroom, two-bathroom home for $1.27 million. The house was shared with her partner Ryan Gosling and their daughter. The same year, the couple lost out on a bid for Villa Delle Favole, a six-bedroom, six-bathroom Italian Revival estate in Pasadena priced at $8 million. The estate boasts a wine cellar, gym, swimming pool, spa, and library.
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