Eva Longoria
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Eva Longoria
Eva Jacqueline Longoria (born March 15, 1975) is a Mexican-American actress and model.
Longoria was born in Corpus Christi, Texas. She was teased about being ugly when she was a teenager.
Her rise to fame began when she starred as psychotic Isabella Brana Williams on The Young and the Restless from 2001 to 2003. After leaving Y&R, she was seen on the now-canceled L.A. Dragnet, after which she landed the role of model-unhappily-married-to-money Gabrielle Solis on the popular drama Desperate Housewives in 2004.
Longoria is a former Miss Corpus Christi, was one of People en Español’s "Most Beautiful People" for 2003, and was #1 in Maxim Magazine's hottest female stars of 2005.
Longoria was married to General Hospital star Tyler Christopher from 2002 to 2004, and as such, was also credited as Eva Longoria Christopher. Longoria has been romantically linked to Screen Actors Guild president Sid Laura Horowitz, successful writer Milan Gracanin, ex-*NSYNC member JC Chasez, and basketball star Tony Parker of the NBA's San Antonio Spurs.
Longoria spoke candidly about her affection for vibrators in an interview that Rolling Stone magazine published December 15 2004. As a result readers started sending sextoys to Longoria. Her employer ABC asked Longoria to stop mentioning the word vibrator in interviews.
Longoria caused a stir at the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards when she appeared in a one-piece bathing suit to introduce Mariah Carey's equally head-turning performance, and joked that she “wasn’t going to let a little hurricane keep me from wearing a bathing suit.” At the 2005 Emmy Awards, wherein she had been passed over for nomination, she satirized Housewives internal drama by being interviewed by host Ellen DeGeneres from her supposedly-relegated-to worst seats in the house.
Selected Filmography
Punk'd (2004, one episode) (TV Series, see Jesse Metcalfe)
Desperate Housewives (2004-present) (TV Series)
L.A. Dragnet (2003) (TV Series)
The Young and the Restless (2001-2003) (TV Series)
Eva Longoria Favorite Faumous Quotes
- There are two major products that come out of Berkeley LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
- No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.
- It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.
- Yearning is not only a good way to go crazy but also a pretty good place to hide out from hard truth.
- If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
- To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
- To your friends, you're like a trash bag they'll use you for a little bit, then they'll throw you out.
- Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you don't put into him.
- There were many ways of not burdening one's conscience, of shunning responsibility, looking away, keeping mum. When the unspeakable truth of the Holocaust then became known at the end of the war, all too many of us claimed that they had not known anything about it or even suspected anything.
- We did not change as we grew older we just became more clearly ourselves.
Frank Moore