Mayte Michelle Rodríguez, better known by her stage name
Michelle Rodriguez, is an American actress. She began her career in 2000, playing a troubled boxer in the independent sports drama film
Girlfight (2000), where she won the Independent Spirit Award and Gotham Award for Best Debut Performance. Rodriguez played Letty Ortiz in the
Fast & Furious franchise, and portrayed Rain Ocampo in the
Resident Evil franchise. She appeared in the crime thriller
S.W.A.T. (2003), and later starred in James Cameron's science fiction epic
Avatar (2009) and in the action film
Battle: Los Angeles (2011).