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Girlfight: Directed by Karyn Kusama. With Michelle Rodriguez, Jamie Tirelli, Paul Calderon, Douglas Santiago. Diana, without her father knowing it, trains as a boxer and achieves impressive success, blazing new trails for female boxers.
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- Drama, Sport
- Karyn Kusama
- 2000-10-06
Girlfight is a 2000 American sports drama film written and directed by Karyn Kusama in her feature directorial debut, and stars Michelle Rodriguez in her first film role. The film follows Diana Guzman, a troubled Brooklyn high school student who decides to channel her aggression by training to become a boxer, despite the disapproval of both her father and her prospective trainers, as well as ...
May 26, 2024 · Rodriguez plays Diana Guzman, a teenager who’s frequently in trouble for fighting at school and alienated from her father (Paul Calderón) at home. When she tries boxing in secret to get some of ...
- Michelle Rodriguez Biography
- Family and Education
- Michelle Rodriguez Love Life
- Professional Statistics
- Michelle Rodriguez Net Worth
- Michelle Rodriguez Facts
Michelle Rodriguez was born on the 12th of July 1978, in San Antonio, Texas, United States of America. She is currently 44 years old.
Her parents are Carmen Milady Rodriguez, a Dominican and Rafael Rodriguez, who served in the US Army. She has ten siblings and half-siblings. Michelle spent her early years in different places, including the Dominican Republic, where she lived with her mother from age eight until age eleven and moved to Puerto Rico and lived there until the age of ...
Rodriguez has dated many men throughout her career. First off, she was in a relationship with a Muslim man in early 2000, but they soon parted ways citing religious contradiction. She then began dating her on-screen pair Vin Diesel during the filming of The Fast and the Furious in 2001. However, this relationship also didn’t last long. After that, ...
Film Debut
Michelle Rodriguez’s first feature film role was as Diana Guzman in the sports drama film ‘Girlfight’ in 2000. She won as many as 11 nominations in different categories for her performance in the film, taking home 5 awards.
Television Debut
In 2003, she appeared as herself in a Bulgarian talk show called Slavi’s Show on MTV.
Significant Works
Without a doubt, her performance in her debut movie ‘Girlfight’ was one of her finest works throughout her career. The film met with critical acclaim as well as received several awards. She played Letty Ortiz, a tough driver and a skilled mechanic, in Rob Cohen’s action film The Fast and the Furious in 2001. She reprised her role as Letty in other installments of the franchise. It was one of her highly successful films in her career graph, but it doesn’t come close to Avatar. She played Capta...
As of 2024, Michelle Rodriguez’s net worth is reported to be $25 million according to the media. Most of which comes from her film and TV appearances.
She attended an open casting call for the role of Diana Guzman in the film Girlfight (2000), where she outperformed 350 other candidates to win the role. In fact, she had no acting experience until she gave an audition for the lead role in Girlfight but she somehow managed to grab the role. The Fast and the Furious was her second audition, and she ...
May 28, 2024 · Michelle Rodriguez, also making her film debut, played Diana Guzman, a Brooklyn high schooler who trains to be a boxer. Advertisement "Women have always been athletes," Kusama, 56, told UPI in a ...
Diana Guzman begins to train as a boxer and achieves impressive success, blazing new trails for female boxers, all while keeping it a secret from her father.
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Michelle Rodriguez, cutting a dazzling figure in her first acting role, plays Diana Guzman, a raw product of a broken family in the Brooklyn projects. Despair and anger find articulation in her ...
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