Mendes was natural inside Miami, Florida (although many sources incorrectly state her birthplace is Houston, Texas) and was raised around Los Angeles. She attended California State University, Northridge but dropped out to seek the career acting. She worked her way higher across commercial message to music video cds to guest roles around TV series to supporting film roles. She is last noted swimming a lead female role in the comedy Hitch opposite Will Smith. She is too one of a faces of the freshly Revlon ads. Mendes has worked within interior project & written babies's books.

Filmography
Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror (1998) A Night at the Roxbury (1998) My Brother the Pig (1999) Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000) Exit Wounds (2001) Training Day (2001) All About the Benjamins (2002) 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003) Out of Time (2003) Stuck On You (2003) Hitch (2005) The Wendell Baker Story (2005)