Eva Longoria was born in Corpus Christi, Texas to Mexican-American Catholic parents Enrique Longoria Jr. (born in Rachal, Brooks County, Texas) and Ella Eva Mireles (married in Falfurrias, Brooks County, Texas).
Her first television role in 2000, guest starring in an episode of Beverly Hills, 90210. Another guest appearance in General Hospital the same year her big break in popular American soap opera The Young and the Restless, in which she played psychotic Isabella Braña Williams from 2001 to 2003 and was listed in People en Español's "Most Beautiful People" for 2003.
