Eva Longoria was born on March 15, 1975 in Corpus Christi, Texas to Enrique Longoria, Jr., and Ella Eva Mireles Longoria. She has three older sisters.
She went to Miller High School in Corpus Christi and attended Texas A&M University-Kingsville, graduating with a degree in Kinesiology.
In 1996, she won the Miss Texas A&M University-Kingsville pageant.
Her first professional acting experience came as a flight attendant on the TV show Beverly Hills 90125, then received the full time part of Isabella Braña Williams the following year in the daytime soap opera Young and the Restless. For her performance, she won the ALMA Award for Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama.
In January 2002 she married Tyler Christopher the marriage ended three years later in divorce in July 2005.
Although she has appeared in other movies, television shows and theatre, her big break came in 2004 when she landed the role of Gabrielle Solis in the hit show Desperate Housewives. Herself and the cast of the show won the 2005 Screen Actor's Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series (shared with Andrea Bowen, Ricardo Chavira, Marcia Cross, Steven Culp, Jamie Denton, Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman, Cody Kasch, Jesse Metcalfe, Mark Moses, Nicollette Sheridan, and Brenda Strong)
In 2004 she also showed her acting talent on the big screen in Carlita's Secret, for which she was nominated for the DVDX Award for Best Actress.
Eva has been listed at the #1 spot in Maxim's Top 100 List for 2005. In 2005 she has also been signed as the L'Oreal image girl.
Besides modeling and her role on Desperate Housewives, this busy actress also stars in two movies being released next year, Harsh Times with Christian Bale and The Sentinel with Michael Douglas.
Other interests an hobbies: Salsa dancing and all types of sports.
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