Mendes, Mara & Milla Bare All for Magazine Spread

Mendes, Mara & Milla Bare All for Magazine Spread

HOLLYWOOD - Eva Mendes, Kate Mara, Joss Stone and pregnant Milla Jovovich are among the stars baring all for a provocative new Jane magazine shoot.

The ladies agreed to disrobe for a series of sexy snapshots in the publication's upcoming "Body" issue.

Actress Mendes, who appears topless on the cover, covering her breasts with pink flowers, admits she was honored to be asked to appear in what will be Jane's final issue.

She says, "It's such a girl-friendly magazine and I feel completely honored to be on the cover and just really comfortable in my skin... I worked really hard for my body and I'm really happy with it."

Eva Mendes

Young, talented and beautiful, Latino actress Eva Mendes rose to stardom on sheer luck and timing. Just five years prior to her starring role in “2 Fast 2 Furious” (2003), the sequel to the unexpected hit, “The Fast and the Furious” (2001), Mendes wasn’t even thinking about an acting career, much less actively pursuing one. But fortune shined it’s light on the energetic actress, and with her passion and zest for life, seized the moment and never looked back....

Full Biography

Young, talented and beautiful, Latino actress Eva Mendes rose to stardom on sheer luck and timing. Just five years prior to her starring role in “2 Fast 2 Furious” (2003), the sequel to the unexpected hit, “The Fast and the Furious” (2001), Mendes wasn’t even thinking about an acting career, much less actively pursuing one. But fortune shined it’s light on the energetic actress, and with her passion and zest for life, seized the moment and never looked back.
Born on March 5, 1978 in Miami, Mendes moved to Los Angeles with her family when she was two years old. Of Cuban descent, her parents fled the island in 1959 before the revolution, but ultimately split when Mendes was ten. Her mother worked as an accountant to support the family, and was very strict on Mendes and her three elder siblings. Mendes later attended Cal State Northridge where she majored in marketing, though she wasn’t terribly interested in the subject.

Then a stroke of dumb luck changed her life forever: her neighbor—a photographer—took a photographs of her at a garage sale. When the photographer was applying for a job, a casting agent noticed the pictures of Mendes and asked to meet her. Mendes was called into their office and was soon cast in her first movie, the straight-to-video release “Children of the Corn V: Field of Terror” (1998). The experience wasn’t a good one for Mendes: her performance was, according to her, “horrific.”

Determined not to let her career be defined by a cheesy horror flick, Mendes joined a few acting classes and spent the next few years in serious study of her craft. Along the way, she landed a few roles in commercials and music videos, including Will Smith’s “Miami” and Aerosmith’s “Hole in My Soul.” Mendes also continued to appear in less awful movies, including “Night at the Roxbury” (1998), starring SNL regulars Will Farrell and Chris Kattan, and “Urban Legends: Final Cut” (2000), with Jennifer Morrison and Matthew Davis.

Her break-out role, however, was in the critically acclaimed “Training Day” (2001), starring Oscar winner Denzel Washington. Though her role as Washington’s girlfriend was small, it was memorable; in a film revealing the acting chops of its lead actors, Mendes revealed something a bit different: her entire body. Mendes went on to appear in Steven Seagal’s comeback actioner, “Exit Wounds” (2001), co-staring rap star DMX. She also had a supporting role in “All About the Benjamins” (2002), a diamond heist comedy starring Ice Cube and Mike Epps. Then came her star turn in “2 Fast 2 Furious”, co-starring Paul Walker and Tyrese.

Mendes played a U.S. Customs agent who recruits Walker and Tyrese to ensnare a drug kingpin. Her flare for action led Paul Rodriguez to cast her in the third installment of his Mariachi trilogy, “Once Upon a Time in Mexico” (2003), in which she played a duplicitous Mexican Federale to Johnny Depp’s rogue CIA agent. Then the actress reunited with Washington for director Carl Franklin’s thriller “Out of Time” (2003), playing the estranged wife of Washington’s Florida chief of police whose life falls apart when he becomes embroiled in a murder investigation. To top off her career, Mendes became a spokesmodel for Revlon. As she became more a presence in the pop culture, her on-screen profile rose as well with her winning starring role as Will Smith's love interest, a gossip reporter unknowingly falling for a relationship consultant she's also pursuing a story about, in the romantic comedy "Hitch" (2005).

In the dark romantic comedy “Trust the Man” (2005), Mendes delivered a strong supporting performance as an old college friend who engages in an affair with a man (Billy Crudup) trapped in a dysfunctional relationship with a longtime girlfriend (Maggie Gyllenhaal) looking to start a family. Mendes raised her profile significantly with the blockbuster comic book adaptation “Ghost Rider” (2007), playing the childhood sweetheart of a superstar stunt motorcycle rider (Nicolas Cage) who made a deal with the devil to protect his loved ones and finds himself paying his due by being unwillingly transformed into a flame-skulled bounty hunter of rogue demons. She then retreated the low-budget confines of “The Wendell Baker Story” (shot in 2005; released in 2007), the directorial debut of brothers Andrew and Luke Wilson about a good-hearted conman (Luke Wilson) who—after being released from prison—finds a job at a nursing home, only to lead a spirited rebellion against the home’s evil nurse (Owen Wilson).


Kate Mara

As a child, actress Kate Mara knew American football like the back of her hand, but after developing an infatuation with acting, opted to pursue a career away from her distinguished sports pedigree. A petite redheaded beauty – equal parts football and theater maven – she began her career in minor TV and film roles, but came to prominent recognition with a mix of intense action-heavy work, most notably on Fox’s “24” (2001- ), and in sensitive film dramas such as “Brokeback Mountain” (2005) and “We Are Marshall” (2006)....

Full Biography

As a child, actress Kate Mara knew American football like the back of her hand, but after developing an infatuation with acting, opted to pursue a career away from her distinguished sports pedigree. A petite redheaded beauty – equal parts football and theater maven – she began her career in minor TV and film roles, but came to prominent recognition with a mix of intense action-heavy work, most notably on Fox’s “24” (2001- ), and in sensitive film dramas such as “Brokeback Mountain” (2005) and “We Are Marshall” (2006).
Mara was born on Feb. 27, 1983 in the Westchester County, New York town of Bedford. There, she was raised along with three siblings – older brother Daniel, younger sister Patricia and younger brother Conor – by the parents of an NFL dynasty. Mara’s father, Chris Mara, was a VP of player evaluation for the New York Giants. Her grandfather, Wellington, owned the team, which her great-grandfather Tim originally founded. On her mother’s side, Mara’s great-grandfather, Art Rooney, was equally established in the sport, having founded the Pittsburgh Steelers.

With a childhood that was anything but ordinary, Mara’s Sundays were often spent in a family routine of church followed by football games at Giants Stadium – before many of which, the teenager was often called upon to sing the national anthem. At the age of nine, Mara informed her mother she wanted to act after becoming enthralled with a performance of “Les Miserables.” Her interest in musicals, which her mother aided through trips to Broadway, only grew. She had acted in a school play, but in 1997, at age 14, her mother – after persistent prodding – agreed to help her land an agent. This led to Mara’s first professional job that year on NBC’s “Law & Order” (1990- ).

Mara continued to act while remaining a student at Fox Lane High School and, in 1999, had parts in both an independent and a studio film. As Jessica Chandler, the congresswoman’s daughter of “Random Hearts” (1999), she found her introduction to mainstream movie audiences while logging screen time in the smaller Sundance favorite “Joe the King” (1999). Continuing to appear in guest spots on television, by the time she was ready to graduate high school one year early, she had been accepted into New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, but ended up deferring for several years, as she was already working professionally.

Having racked up a slew of small screen guest appearances, Mara found her first lengthy recurring arcs in 2003. The roles provided a dramatic challenge – first, as she played a girl impregnated by her piano teacher on The WB’s “Everwood” (2002-2006), then as Vanessa, a lesbian teen engaged in a bisexual love triangle on FX’s plastic surgery drama “Nip/Tuck” (2003- ). That year, she also fulfilled her dream of hitting the professional stage, making her debut at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in John Guare’s “Landscape of the Body.” Despite her preference for the East Coast, Mara soon decided to head west to Los Angeles, looking to further pursue her onscreen prospects.

By 2005, Mara’s onscreen appearances had reached loftier heights. Though her role was small, she made an important late entry in the film “Brokeback Mountain” as Alma Del Mar Jr., the grown daughter of cowboy Ennis Del Mar, a character instrumental in helping tie the film’s emotional threads together. Playing her father, actor Heath Ledger was by then an elderly figure onscreen, but offscreen, Mara was barely four years younger than her co-star. The following year, she originated the role of Shari Rothenberg, a shifty CTU computer analyst/chemicals expert on Fox’s “24” (2001- ). Mara had the series audience appropriately hissing – the result of unenviably replacing fan favorite character Edgar Stiles. Though Sheri was pegged as somewhat villainous, Mara’s transition into the big screen summer film “Zoom” (2006) allowed her to play a heroine as the telekinetic teenager named Wonder.

Just after her grandfather, Wellington, passed away in late 2005, Mara read the screenplay for “We Are Marshall” (2006), the true story of a small West Virginia town decimated by the loss of its cherished college football team in a plane crash. She knew she wanted to be a part of the production, as she had been moved by the story’s message about the importance of adversity and of the sport itself to small town American life. Mara channeled her own grief into the role of Annie Cantrell, a cheerleading waitress whose fiancé was one of the fallen players.

It was her ability to tap into lost love that also came in handy when she was approached for Paramount Pictures’ “Shooter” (2007), which brought about her biggest leading role to date. It was a tough shoot, with Mara’s Sarah Fenn, a Marine spotter’s widow, coaxed into aiding his best friend in solving the truth behind a presidential assassination. The movie provided her with some physical challenges to go with the character drama – among them, a week filming exteriors perched high on a Canadian glacier. For the actress on the ascent, it was a fitting place to be.


Joss Stone

Milla Jovovich

An exotic beauty with high cheekbones, striking blue eyes and a saucy demeanor, Milla Jovovich started modeling as a child. By the time she was 12, she was photographed by Richard Avedon as one of Revlon's "Most Unforgettable Women in the World". The Kiev-born Jovovich segued to the big screen in the campy "Two-Moon Junction" (1988) and landed her first starring role as the turn-of-the-century young woman stranded on a South Seas island in "Return to the Blue Lagoon" (1991), the sequel to the 1980 Brooke Shields-Christopher Atkins box-office hit, "The Blue Lagoon"....

Full Biography

An exotic beauty with high cheekbones, striking blue eyes and a saucy demeanor, Milla Jovovich started modeling as a child. By the time she was 12, she was photographed by Richard Avedon as one of Revlon's "Most Unforgettable Women in the World". The Kiev-born Jovovich segued to the big screen in the campy "Two-Moon Junction" (1988) and landed her first starring role as the turn-of-the-century young woman stranded on a South Seas island in "Return to the Blue Lagoon" (1991), the sequel to the 1980 Brooke Shields-Christopher Atkins box-office hit, "The Blue Lagoon". After being wasted as Christian Slater's girlfriend in "Kuffs" and as Mildred Harris in Richard Attenborough's biopic "Chaplin" (both 1992), the actress found that most of her role in Richard Linklater's "Dazed and Confused" (1993) ended on the cutting room floor. Discouraged, she briefly retired from acting to concentrate on her fledgling singing career.
In 1997, she returned to the big screen co-starring with Bruce Willis in the sci-fi thriller "The Fifth Element", directed by future husband Luc Besson. Two years later, before the marriage floundered, Jovovich played the Maid of Orleans for Besson in "The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc", which failed to impress audiences or critics. Her performance as a whorehouse madam in 1880s California in "The Claim" (2000) also divided viewers, but she showed her game side when she sent up Eurotrash models as Katinka Ingabogovinanana in the Ben Stiller comedy "Zoolander" (2001). More obtuse was her turn in the indie "Dummy" (2002) playing a suburban punk rock chick and neighbor to an eccentric young man (Adrien Brody) who can only expresses his inner insecurities through his ventriloquist dummy.

Changing gears to more commercial minded fare, Jovovich became the big screen version of the video game heroine Alice for "Resident Evil" (2002), an action-horror-thriller that, despite critical drubbing, proved to be a box office success, allowing the actress to show her butt-kicking side, along with a titilating amount of skin (She also commenced a romance with writer-director Paul W.S. Anderson that led to an engagement). She would next appear in Bob Rafelson's little-seen noir wannabe "The House on Turk Street" (2002) opposite Samuel L. Jackson and the minor indie romantic comedy "You Stupid Man" (2002) before returning for the 2004 sequel "Resident Evil: Apocalypse."


Eva Mendes

Young, talented and beautiful, Latino actress Eva Mendes rose to stardom on sheer luck and timing. Just five years prior to her starring role in “2 Fast 2 Furious” (2003), the sequel to the unexpected hit, “The Fast and the Furious” (2001), Mendes wasn’t even thinking about an acting career, much less actively pursuing one. But fortune shined it’s light on the energetic actress, and with her passion and zest for life, seized the moment and never looked back....

Full Biography

Young, talented and beautiful, Latino actress Eva Mendes rose to stardom on sheer luck and timing. Just five years prior to her starring role in “2 Fast 2 Furious” (2003), the sequel to the unexpected hit, “The Fast and the Furious” (2001), Mendes wasn’t even thinking about an acting career, much less actively pursuing one. But fortune shined it’s light on the energetic actress, and with her passion and zest for life, seized the moment and never looked back.
Born on March 5, 1978 in Miami, Mendes moved to Los Angeles with her family when she was two years old. Of Cuban descent, her parents fled the island in 1959 before the revolution, but ultimately split when Mendes was ten. Her mother worked as an accountant to support the family, and was very strict on Mendes and her three elder siblings. Mendes later attended Cal State Northridge where she majored in marketing, though she wasn’t terribly interested in the subject.

Then a stroke of dumb luck changed her life forever: her neighbor—a photographer—took a photographs of her at a garage sale. When the photographer was applying for a job, a casting agent noticed the pictures of Mendes and asked to meet her. Mendes was called into their office and was soon cast in her first movie, the straight-to-video release “Children of the Corn V: Field of Terror” (1998). The experience wasn’t a good one for Mendes: her performance was, according to her, “horrific.”

Determined not to let her career be defined by a cheesy horror flick, Mendes joined a few acting classes and spent the next few years in serious study of her craft. Along the way, she landed a few roles in commercials and music videos, including Will Smith’s “Miami” and Aerosmith’s “Hole in My Soul.” Mendes also continued to appear in less awful movies, including “Night at the Roxbury” (1998), starring SNL regulars Will Farrell and Chris Kattan, and “Urban Legends: Final Cut” (2000), with Jennifer Morrison and Matthew Davis.

Her break-out role, however, was in the critically acclaimed “Training Day” (2001), starring Oscar winner Denzel Washington. Though her role as Washington’s girlfriend was small, it was memorable; in a film revealing the acting chops of its lead actors, Mendes revealed something a bit different: her entire body. Mendes went on to appear in Steven Seagal’s comeback actioner, “Exit Wounds” (2001), co-staring rap star DMX. She also had a supporting role in “All About the Benjamins” (2002), a diamond heist comedy starring Ice Cube and Mike Epps. Then came her star turn in “2 Fast 2 Furious”, co-starring Paul Walker and Tyrese.

Mendes played a U.S. Customs agent who recruits Walker and Tyrese to ensnare a drug kingpin. Her flare for action led Paul Rodriguez to cast her in the third installment of his Mariachi trilogy, “Once Upon a Time in Mexico” (2003), in which she played a duplicitous Mexican Federale to Johnny Depp’s rogue CIA agent. Then the actress reunited with Washington for director Carl Franklin’s thriller “Out of Time” (2003), playing the estranged wife of Washington’s Florida chief of police whose life falls apart when he becomes embroiled in a murder investigation. To top off her career, Mendes became a spokesmodel for Revlon. As she became more a presence in the pop culture, her on-screen profile rose as well with her winning starring role as Will Smith's love interest, a gossip reporter unknowingly falling for a relationship consultant she's also pursuing a story about, in the romantic comedy "Hitch" (2005).

In the dark romantic comedy “Trust the Man” (2005), Mendes delivered a strong supporting performance as an old college friend who engages in an affair with a man (Billy Crudup) trapped in a dysfunctional relationship with a longtime girlfriend (Maggie Gyllenhaal) looking to start a family. Mendes raised her profile significantly with the blockbuster comic book adaptation “Ghost Rider” (2007), playing the childhood sweetheart of a superstar stunt motorcycle rider (Nicolas Cage) who made a deal with the devil to protect his loved ones and finds himself paying his due by being unwillingly transformed into a flame-skulled bounty hunter of rogue demons. She then retreated the low-budget confines of “The Wendell Baker Story” (shot in 2005; released in 2007), the directorial debut of brothers Andrew and Luke Wilson about a good-hearted conman (Luke Wilson) who—after being released from prison—finds a job at a nursing home, only to lead a spirited rebellion against the home’s evil nurse (Owen Wilson).