Eva Jacqueline Longoria (born March 15, 1975) is an American actress, best known for portraying Gabrielle Solis on the ABC television series Desperate Housewives. On The Oprah Winfrey Show in 2006, Longoria shared with viewers an introspective look into the hardships she faced in her formative years while growing up poor; she took cameras on location to the family farm and showed how spartan their life had been. Another guest appearance in General Hospital the same year brought her big break on the popular American soap opera The Young and the Restless, in which she played psychotic Isabella Braña Williams from 2001 to 2003. She also starred opposite Michael Douglas and Kiefer Sutherland in the 2006 thriller The Sentinel, which was her first major role in a theatrical movie. She has expressed “confusion” over fellow Housewives actress Nicolette Sheridan’s lawsuit against the Desperate Housewives series creator Marc Cherry. in January 2007, Longoria was chosen to be the first face of Bebe Sport. in October, Longoria hosted the MTV Europe Music Awards 2010 in Madrid, Spain.
