Mayte Michelle Rodriguez was born on July 12, 1978. Michelle Rodriguez is an American actress. Following on from her breakthrough role in 2000 Girlfight, she is best known for playing tough girl roles and starring in Hollywood movies such as The Fast and The Furious, Blue Crush, Resident Evil, S.W.A.T., Fast and Furious, Avatar, Machete and Battle: Los Angeles, as well as for her role as Ana Lucia Cortez in the television series Lost. Michelle Rodriguez had a notable roles in other successful movies, including The Fast and the Furious, Resident Evil, Blue Crush, and S.W.A.T. In 2004 Michelle Rodriguez lent her voice to the video game Halo 2, playing a Marine. She also provided the voice of Liz Ricarro in the Cartoon Network Series IGPX. From 2005 to 2006, she played tough cop Ana Lucia Cortez on the television series Lost during the show's fifth season, and returned for a cameo in the second episode of the show's fifth season The Lie in 2009 and again in the penultimate episode of the series What They Died For in 2010. In 2006, Michelle Rodriguez was featured in her own episode of G4's show Icons. Several times over the course of her career, she has been ranked in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women In The World", Maxim's "100 Sexiest Women", and People en EspaƱol's "50 Mas Bellos", and was ranked #74 in FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2009".