An exotic beauty with long, luxurious dark hair, flawless skin and intense eyes, Jordana Brewster spent a peripatetic upbringing bouncing between such far flung locations as NYC, London and Rio de Janeiro. The granddaughter of former Yale president Kingman Brewster and daughter of an investment banker and a model, she began performing as a child, earning her first screen credit as a dancer in a 1988 Brazilian children's film starring the popular Xuxa. Settling in Manhattan, Brewster ventured into daytime serials in 1995, first briefly playing the youngest member of a Hispanic family on ABC's "All My Children" before jumping networks to CBS to undertake the teen heroine Nikki Graves on "As the World Turns". After spending three years (1995-98) on the soap, Brewster left with the intention of attending Yale, but her acting career took off after she was cast as the bitchy cheerleader Delilah in the teen horror flick "The Faculty" (1998). She followed with a strong turn as a teenager who becomes involved in the antiwar movement in the 1999 NBC miniseries "The 60s" before undertaking another feature, playing Cameron Diaz's sister in "The Invisible Circus" (2000).
Brewster gained considerable exposure in her co-starring role in 2001's race car movie "The Fast and the Furious." Though the offers came pouring in after that, Brewster elected to return to Yale to finish her undergraduate schooling and take a break from the acting world for a while. She made her return to film with “D.E.B.S.” (2005), a silly spy-comedy about four high school girls in plaid skirts who really work as top secret agents for the U.S. government. Brewster played the sultry super villain Lucy Diamond, with whom lead D.E.B. Amy (Sara Foster) falls in love despite her mission to find and capture Diamond’s gang.