Martha Plimpton

She was also nominated for a 2002 Emmy Award for best guest actress in a drama series. She dated Vin Diesel in 2001, and she even admitted, during an interview at the Howard Stern show, to having an intimate relationship with him. As of 2002 she continues to perform in films while pursing stage acting with The Steppenwolf Theater Company (most notably in Hedda Gabler). Subsequently, she has had notable characters in other hit movies. She was the lead in a short-run television show on HBO called The Defenders. She won various awards for her job in this movie, which became an unexpected hit among moviegoers. In the 1990s she developed a reputation for being a very professional actress, taking many smaller roles in mainstream films like Beautiful Girls and in films like 200 Cigarettes and John Waters' Pecker. But Rodriguez's job was critically acclaimed, and she began to become famous.

In the film The Mosquito Coast she met boyfriend River Phoenix, whom she later left because of his drug use. That movie turned out to be Girlfight, where Michelle landed the starring role of Diana Guzman, a woman boxer. Girlfight was a low-budget, independent film. After her part in the cult classic The Goonies she built up a reputation for being able to play rebellious tomboys, appearing in such films as Shy People, Silence Like Glass and Stars and Bars. She was a struggling actress when she ran across an ad advertising an open casting call for a movie. She began her career in the 1980s in the film The River Rat. She later moved to New Jersey. Martha Plimpton (born November 16, 1970) was born from Hollywood blood with parents Keith Carradine and Shelley Plimpton. She is a native of Bexar County, Texas, but her family decided to follow their roots when Michelle was a child: At the age of 8, she moved to the Dominican Republic, and at 11, she moved to Puerto Rico.

Michelle Rodriguez (born July 12, 1978) is an American born Puerto Rican-Dominican actress. Cradle Will Rock (1999, extra). Summer of Sam (1999, extra). Girlfight (2000, Diana Guzman).

3 A.M. (2001, Salgado). The Fast and the Furious (2001, Letty). Resident Evil (2002, Rain Ocampo). Blue Crush (2002, Eden).

S.W.A.T. (2003, Chris Sanchez).