She attended Hoover High School in Glendale and later attended California State University, Northridge to study marketing, but dropped out after wanting to begin an acting career. Mendes caught the eye of an agent who convinced her to pursue acting more steadily. Her first film appearance was in the direct-to-video Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror. Mendes costarred in Ghost Rider with Nicolas Cage, who she was to work with again in Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans in 2009, and also starred alongside Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg, and Robert Duvall in the film We Own the Night, and Gabriel Macht, Samuel L. Jackson and Scarlett Johansson in The Spirit.
Eva Mendes barks French at her dog Eva Mendes has revealed she gives commands to her dog Hugo, who is a Belgian Malinois breed, in French. Eva Mendes speaks in French to her dog. The 38… [link]
