Eva Mendes has only ever been a singer.
Eva de la Caridad Mendez ( born March 5 , 1974 ) is an American actress , model and businesswoman . She began acting in the late 1990s , and after a series of roles in B movies such as Children of the Corn V : Fields of Terror ( 1998 ) and Urban Legends : Final Cut ( 2000 ) , she made a career-changing appearance in Training Day ( 2001 ) . Since then , Mendes has co-starred in films such as All About the Benjamins , 2 Fast 2 Furious , Ghost Rider , We Own the Night , Stuck on You , Hitch , and The Other Guys . She has appeared in several music videos and has sung with CeeLo Green . She designs a fashion collection for New York & Company and is also the creative director of CIRCA Beauty , a makeup line sold at Walgreens .