Jordana Brewster
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Jordana Brewster
Jordana Brewster (born April 26, 1980) is an American actress. Born in Panama City, Panama, to an investment banker and a former Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model from Brazil, Brewster studied at the Sacred Heart School in New York and later at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, graduating in 2004. Her grandfather Kingman Brewster, Jr. is a former president of Yale.
She 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 Sexiest Women in the World".
Filmography
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
The '60s (1999) - Sarah Weinstock
As the World Turns (1995-1998) - Nikki Munson
All My Children (1995) - Anita Santos
Jordana Brewster Favorite Faumous Quotes
- There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
- Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blow up the bonfire.
- Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.
- You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
- I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.
- The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly.
- The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.
- My mind tells me to give up, but my heart won't let me.
- If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
Frank Moore