Jordana Brewster Biography / Pictures

Biography

Born in Panama City, Panama, to an investment banker and a former Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model from Brazil, Brewster studied at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in New York and graduated from the Professional Children's Schoolin New York. She then enrolled at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, graduating in 2004. Her grandfather Kingman Brewster, Jr. is a former president of Yale.

Jordana Brewster made her debut on the daytime soap opera, All My Children, in a one-time appearance playing Anita Santos. Brewster returned back to daytime on As the World Turns as Nikki Munson from 1995 to 1998. It was her role as Mia Toretto in The Fast and the Furious that has been her most popular role to date.

She dated Mark Wahlberg from 2000 to June 2001 and has also recently dated Derek Jeter and Jay Penske. In 2002 Stuff Magazine named her the 96th hottest women in their "102 S--iest Women in the World".

An exotic beauty with long, luxurious dark hair, flawless skin and intense eyes, Jordana Brewster spent a peripatetic upbringing bouncing between such far flung locations as NYC, London and Rio de Janeiro. The granddaughter of former Yale president Kingman Brewster and daughter of an investment banker and a model, she began performing as a child, earning her first screen credit as a dancer in a 1988 Brazilian children's film starring the popular Xuxa. Settling in Manhattan, Brewster ventured into daytime serials in 1995, first briefly playing the youngest member of a Hispanic family on ABC's "All My Children" before jumping networks to CBS to undertake the teen heroine Nikki Graves on "As the World Turns". After spending three years (1995-98) on the soap, Brewster left with the intention of attending Yale, but her acting career took off after she was cast as the bitchy cheerleader Delilah in the teen horror flick "The Faculty" (1998). She followed with a strong turn as a teenager who becomes involved in the antiwar movement in the 1999 NBC miniseries "The 60s" before undertaking another feature, playing Cameron Diaz's sister in "The Invisible Circus" (2000).

Jordana gained considerable exposure in her co-starring role in 2001's race car movie "The Fast and the Furious." Though the offers came pouring in after that, Brewster elected to return to Yale to finish her undergraduate schooling and take a break from the acting world for a while. She made her return to film with “D.E.B.S.” (2005), a silly spy-comedy about four high school girls in plaid skirts who really work as top secret agents for the U.S. government. Brewster played the sultry super villain Lucy Diamond, with whom lead D.E.B. Amy (Sara Foster) falls in love despite her mission to find and capture Diamond’s gang.

Trivia for Jordana Brewster

• Born: on 04/26/80 in Panama City, PanamaJob Titles: Actor, DancerFamily
• Father: Alden Brewster.
• Grandfather: Kingman Brewster. served as president of Yale University from 1963 to 1977
• Grandmother: Mary Louise Brewster.
• Mother: Maria Jaao. Brazilian; appeared in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue
• Sister: Isabella Brewster. younger
• Significant Others
• Companion: Derek Jeter. dating as of June 2002
• Companion: Mark Wahlberg. began dating in late 1998; Brewster confirmed they were no longer together in June 2001
• Education
• Yale College, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, English

Filmography for Jordana Brewster

• Annapolis (2006) - Ali
• Chasing Fate (2005) (filming)
• Nearing Grace (2005) - Grace
• D.E.B.S. (2004) - Lucy Diamond
• The Fast and the Furious (2001) - Mia Toretto
• The Invisible Circus (2001) - Phoebe
• The Faculty (1998) - Delilah Profitt

Television for Jordana Brewster

• The '60s (1999) - Sarah Weinstock
• As the World Turns (1995-1998) - Nikki Munson
• All My Children (1995) - Anita Santos