Eva Jacqueline Longoria Bastón is an American actress, producer, and director. After a number of guest roles on several television series, she was recognized for her portrayal of Isabella Braña on the CBS daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless, on which she starred from 2001 to 2003. She is most known for her role as Gabrielle Solis on the ABC television series Desperate Housewives, which ran from 2004 to 2012, and for which she received Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations. She has also appeared in The Sentinel , Over Her Dead Body , For Greater Glory , Frontera , Lowriders , and Overboard . From 2015 to 2016, she starred as Ana Sofia Calderón on the short-lived NBC sitcom Telenovela, and was an executive producer for the Lifetime television series Devious Maids. She has also been an executive producer of social issue documentaries, including Food Chains and The Harvest. In 2005 she founded UnbeliEVAble Entertainment.
She began directing episodes of television series she appeared in starting in 2014, and made her feature directorial debut with Flamin' Hot .
She appeared in several advertising campaigns, and has modeling contracts with L'Oréal and New York & Co, among others.
In 2023, she began hosting a CNN show, Eva Longoria: Searching for Mexico.
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On balancing your passions in “Eva Longoria—She Is Power Woman, Hear Her Roar” https://hauteliving.com/2017/09/haute-living-cover-interview-eva-longoria-2017/642129/ in Haute Living (2017 Sep 8)
