Jordana Brewster Biography

An exotic beauty with long, luxurious dark hair, flawless skin and intense eyes, Jordana Brewster spent a peripatetic upbringing bouncing between such far flung locations as NYC, London and Rio de Janeiro. The granddaughter of former Yale president Kingman Brewster and daughter of an investment banker and a model, she began performing as a child, earning her first screen credit as a dancer in a 1988 Brazilian children's film starring the popular Xuxa. Settling in Manhattan, Brewster ventured into daytime serials in 1995, first briefly playing the youngest member of a Hispanic family on ABC's "All My Children" before jumping networks to CBS to undertake the teen heroine Nikki Graves on "As the World Turns". After spending three years (1995-98) on the soap, Brewster left with the intention of attending Yale, but her acting career took off after she was cast as the bitchy cheerleader Delilah in the teen horror flick "The Faculty" (1998). She followed with a strong turn as a teenager who becomes involved in the antiwar movement in the 1999 NBC miniseries "The 60s" before undertaking another feature, playing Cameron Diaz's sister in "The Invisible Circus" (2000). Brewster gained considerable exposure in her co-starring role in 2001's race car movie "The Fast and the Furious." Though the offers came pouring in after that, Brewster elected to return to Yale to finish her undergraduate schooling and take a break from the acting world for a while. She made her return to film with “D.E.B.S.” (2005), a silly spy-comedy about four high school girls in plaid skirts who really work as top secret agents for the U.S. government. Brewster played the sultry super villain Lucy Diamond, with whom lead D.E.B. Amy (Sara Foster) falls in love despite her mission to find and capture Diamond’s gang.

* Born: April 26, 1980 in Panama City, Panama
* Job Titles: Actress, Dancer

Family

* Father: Alden Brewster.
* Grandfather: Kingman Brewster Jr. Served as president of Yale University from 1963 to 1977
* Grandmother: Mary Louise Brewster.
* Mother: Maria Jaao. Brazilian; appeared in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue
* Sister: Isabella Brewster. Younger

Significant Others

* Companion: Mark McGrath. Dated from 2003-2004; no longer together
* Husband: Andrew Form. Met while acting in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006), which he produced; married in May 2007 on Nevis Island in the Caribbean
* Companion: Derek Jeter. dating as of June 2002
* Companion: Mark Wahlberg. began dating in late 1998; Brewster confirmed they were no longer together in June 2001

Education

* Yale University, New Haven, CT, English

Milestones

* 1988 First film appearance, the Brazilian-made Super Xuxa: Contra Baixo Astral
* 1995 Appeared as teen heroine Nikki Graves on the CBS daytime drama As the World Turns
* 1995 Briefly played the role of Anita Santos on the ABC daytime drama All My Children
* 1998 Made US feature film debut in Robert Rodriguez s The Faculty
* 1999 Had featured role in the NBC miniseries The 60s
* 2001 Breakout role as Paul Walker s love interest, Mia Toretto in The Fast and the Furious
* 2001 Co-starred with Cameron Diaz and Christopher Eccleston in The Invisible Circus
* 2005 Played the title role in Nearing Grace
* 2006 Co-starred with James Franco in Justin Lin s Annapolis
* 2006 Starred in the prequel film, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
* 2008 Had a recurring role as the title character s former girlfriend on NBC s Chuck
* 2009 Reprised role of Mia Toretto in Fast & Furious
* Raised in London, Rio de Janeiro and NYC

Source : movies.yahoo.com