PERSON: Eva Longoria

Actor

Eva Jacqueline Longoria Bastón (née Longoria; born March 15, 1975) is an American actress, producer and director. After a number of guest roles on several television series, she was recognized for her portrayal of Isabella Braña on the CBS daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless, on which she starred from 2001 to 2003. She is most known for her role as Gabrielle Solis on the ABC television series Desperate Housewives, which ran from 2004 to 2012, and for which she received a Golden Globe nomination and won two Screen Actors Guild Awards with the cast.

Thanks to her acting works she has won three ALMA Awards, two People’s Choice Awards a Teen Choice Awards; Longoria has also appeared in The Sentinel (2006), Over Her Dead Body (2008), For Greater Glory (2012), Frontera (2014), Lowriders (2016), and Overboard (2018), later winning the Imagen Awards for Best Actress Film.

In 2005, Longoria founded UnbeliEVAble Entertainment, a film and television production company. In 2023, the company was acquired by Hyphenate Media Group, a production company co-founded by Longoria and Cris Abrego. She was also an executive producer for the Lifetime television series Devious Maids, and for films Food Chains and The Harvest. From 2015 to 2016, she starred and co-produced the short-lived NBC sitcom Telenovela. In 2024, she guest-starred on the fourth season of Hulu’s mystery comedy-drama Only Murders in the Building.

Since 2014 she has been directing episodes of television series she appeared in. In 2021 she was nominated at the 48th Daytime Creative Arts Emmy Awards for her direction of television series Ashley Garcia: Genius in Love. In 2023 Longoria made her feature directorial debut with Flamin’ Hot, which was nominated for Best Song at the 96th Academy Awards.

She appeared in several advertising campaigns, including with L’Oréal, New York & Co, Pepsi and she has launched her own fashion and parfumes brand since 2017.

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