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Edit Did You Know? Official Site. She portrayed Trudy Chacon in Avatar. With a Dominican mother and Puerto Rican father, Michelle had quite the diverse upbringing.
Around the age of nine, she moved with her family to the Dominican Republic where she says she learned Spanish and consequently "forgot every word of English" she knew. Her family also spent time in Puerto Rico until finally moving to New Jersey where Michelle would spend the majority of her young adulthood.
During her adolescence, Michelle was raised as a Jehovah's Witness, a religious background which she eventually grew apart from. While her mother enforced a strict and proper upbringing, her father challenged Michelle to learn from the "school of life", a dichotomy which she says "created what you see in front of you".
Michelle first developed her "tough girl" persona due to the often rough environments in which she grew up. Michelle refers to herself as "the joker" in school, something which likely contributed to the five schools she was kicked out of growing up.
Feeling that she "wasn't really being educated", she dropped out of high school and later obtained her G. Realizing that she could not spend her life being "sun deprived and stuck in an office," she quit school and set her sights on becoming a writer and director, and decided acting could be the outlet to get her there.
After doing extra work for two years with little success and even less money, Michelle finally spotted an ad in Backstage Magazine for a 'young latina' boxing role. I want [success] the hard way. My favorite part of my body is my brain. I think no matter what my body looks like, I won't be satisfied unless I know how to use it. I don't think it's narcissistic at all to love yourself and believe in yourself. I think some people are really scared to do that.
I have to. If I don't, I would not succeed in what I do. No matter what, people are so narrow minded that it won't ever be Michelle Rodriguez the actress, it will always be Michelle Rodriguez the Latin actress. And it's just something that I have to live with, because of the fact that people need labels to understand things. I can't even get into this ignorance that I'm dealing with. So I just ignore it, you know? Ignore the ignorance. Or the girlfriend? You can keep knocking me down forever, I'll keep getting up and trying.
Basically, right now Hollywood is a giant factory of remakes because everyone is pussying out and they don't want to try anything new because they're scared, I guess. The money situation in the States isn't so keen right now. Our dollar is shitty, so I can understand why the studios are doing the guaranteed hit-off movies. I'm banking on that and I'm proud to be part of franchises that want me back. I've never walked the carpet with anyone, so they wonder: What does she do with her vagina?
Plus, I play a butchy girl all the time, so they assume I'm a lesbo Eh, they're not too far off. I've gone both ways. I do as I please.
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