Eva Mendes didn't confirm her marriage to Ryan Gosling until November 2022, after years of rumors about the pair's relationship status. “Everyone is so welcoming here, and my husband Ryan is here and we are having the best time,” she shared with an Australian news outlet at the time.

Eva de la Caridad Méndez was born in Miami, Florida, to Cuban parents Eva Pérez Suárez and Juan Carlos Méndez, and was raised by her mother in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Silver Lake after her parents' divorce. Mendes grew up a Roman Catholic and at one time even considered becoming a Catholic nun.

Eva de la Caridad Méndez (/ˈmɛndɛz/, Spanish: [ˈeβa ðe la kaɾiˈðað ˈmendes]; born March 5, 1974), known professionally as Eva Mendes, is an American actress.

August 2011: Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes meet while filming The Place Beyond the Pines. Mendes and Gosling first met when they played a couple in The Place Beyond the Pines. Prior to meeting Mendes, Gosling had dated his The Notebook costar Rachel McAdams, and was briefly linked to Olivia Wilde in early 2011.