Jordana Brewster
Jordana Brewster
Jordana Brewster is a Brazilian-American actress and model. She began her acting career in her late teens, in an episode of the soap opera All My Children in 1995. She followed that appearance with the recurring role as Nikki Munson in As the World Turns, for which Brewster was nominated for Outstanding Teen Performer at the 1997 Soap Opera Digest Award. She was later cast in her first feature film, Robert Rodriguez's 1998 horror science fiction, The Faculty. She also...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActress
Date of Birth26 April 1980
CountryUnited States of America
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