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Biography

Rodriguez was born in Bexar County, Texas to Rafael Rodriguez. Her parents divorced in 1986 and she was raised a Jehovah's Witness by her devoutly religious maternal grandmother, and has a total of ten half-siblings or siblings, some of whom she has never met.

Rodriguez moved to the Dominican Republic with her mother when she was 8 and lived in Puerto Rico when she was 11, later settling in New Jersey. She dropped out of high school at age 17 (after having been kicked out of 6 different schools), but later earned her GED.

Rodriguez was a struggling actress when she ran across an ad advertising an open casting call for the low-budget, independent film, Girlfight. Michelle beat out 350 other applicants for the part, and was cast in the starring role of Diana Guzman, a troubled teen who decides to channel her aggression by training to become a boxer. It was her first audition. The film was released in 2000, and Rodriguez's performance was recognized by both critics and audiences.

Subsequently, she has had notable roles in other successful movies, including The Fast and the Furious and Resident Evil. She joined the cast of the TV series Lost in 2005, playing tough cop Ana-Lucia Cortez. In 2002, she was ranked #77 in Stuff magazine’s “102 Sexiest Women In The World”, and #34 in Maxim’s "100 Sexiest Women".

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