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Actress and singer Eva La Rue was born on December 27, 1966, in Long Beach, California and she attended Norco Senior High School. Eva began acting at age six in commercials and often sang at many sporting events, and in 1973 she won the Little Miss California pageant. In 1986 she moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career, and made her first film appearance in the classic "The Barbarian," and had roles in "Robo Cop 3," "Ghoulies III: Ghoulies Go to College" and "One Hell of A Guy." Her television roles include parts in "Soul Food," "Third Watch," and as George's sister on the "George Lopez Show." Eva is most famous for her roles as Dr. Maria Santos Grey in the ABC soap opera "All My Children" and as lab specialist Natalia Boa Vista on the crime drama "CSI: Miami." Eva also is the co-host for E! Style Networks "Modern Girls Guide To Life" and is a former Frederick's of Hollywood lingerie model. When she's not working Eva enjoys spending quality time with her daughter Kaya and enjoys gardening and decorating.

Sexy and talented, with a memorably exotic look (due to a multiethnic ancestry), model-turned-actress Eva La Rue (also occasionally billed by her married name, Eva LaRue Callahan) launched her career in print work, with a heavy emphasis on covers for such periodicals as Woman's World, Latina, and Cosmopolitan en Español. La Rue segued into acting in the late '80s and early '90s, and landed a number of nonfiction television assignments, first as cohost, with the legendary Dom DeLuise, of the gag-laden series revival The New Candid Camera (1991), then as hostess of the Miss America Pageant and the Lifetime network special Weddings of a Lifetime.



The ever-versatile La Rue concurrently tackled scripted roles as well. After supporting parts in many a Hollywood programmer (Robocop 3, Ghoulies III: Ghoulies Go to College, Mirror Images 2) and several years as a regular on the soap All My Children, she earned stellar notices for her portrayal of Mouseketeer-turned-beach bunny Annette Funicello in the telemovie A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes: The Annette Funicello Story. She went on to perform in recurring roles on the popular series Third Watch and Soul Food. La Rue culled her broadest fan base, however, for her portrayal of lab specialist and grant writer Natalia Boa Vista on the crime series phenomenon CSI: Miami. Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide



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