Trivia
- Eva was nominated in 2008 for a SAG Award along with her Desperate Housewives castmates for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series.
- Eva has a pet dog named Jinxy which she sometimes brings to the set of Desperate Housewives.
- Eva was ranked #11 on Entertainment Tonight's "Hot List of 2007".
- Eva was ranked #19 in FHM Online's 100 Sexiest Women in the World of 2007.
- Eva was among People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People of 2006.
- Eva has taken her husband Tony's surname and will now be known as Eva Longoria Parker.
- Eva ranked #9 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2007 list.
- Eva is best friends with producer Kiki Melendez.
- As a child, Eva's family ate very healthy, except when her father used to sneak pizza for the four girls without the mother knowing.
- Eva's sister Lisa is mentally retarded.
- Eva was chosen as one of People Magazine's annual 100 Most Beautiful People in May 2007.
- Eva got into trouble with Desperate Housewives producers, after leaking storylines on a chat show in April 2007.
- Eva said her favorite actor is her good friend, Kiefer Sutherland.
- Eva and long time boyfriend, Tony Parker became engaged on November 29, 2006. They were married in Paris at the Church of Saint Germain l'Auxerrois, on July 7, 2007. Eva wore a 75,000 dollar Angel Sanchez mermaid gown with a scoop back and a long train.
- Despite ruling out running for office herself, Eva has been actively involved in politics in the last few years.
- Eva is the first woman to be number one on Maxim's "Top 100 Hottest Female Stars" for two years running.
- Eva is a friend of the French national soccer team player, Thierry Henry.
- Eva supports the French national soccer team, Les Bleus.
- Eva is Roman Catholic.
- During the 2006 break from Desperate Housewives, Eva and now husband, Tony, took a romantic vacation in Bora Bora. They had hoped to avoid the paparazzi, but unfortunately Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban were celebrating their honeymoon at the same resort.
- Eva loves keeping fit by kick boxing.
- Eva was the cover-girl of the 100th edition of Maxim magazine in April of 2006.
- Eva has appeared in two music videos; Jessica Simpson's Public Affair and Jamie Foxx's Unpredictable.
- Eva and Jessica Simpson share the same hairstylist – Ken Paves.
- Eva is in negotiations to write a raunchy novel. She has already planned an erotic plot for her first foray into literature and can’t wait for the work to be published.
- Eva asked Teri Hatcher to be her date for the Emmy Awards. She accepted. Eva said, "I'm going to have the hottest date at the Emmys... And Teri will get lucky, because I'm easy.”
- Eva doesn't plan on extending her contract with Desperate Housewives. She wants to pursue a career in movies.
- The one thing Eva splurges on more than anything else is shoes.
- When Eva wants to relax, she often treats herself to a massage.
- Eva thinks that sex on a first date is something everyone should try at least once.
- Eva feels her most sexy while she is wearing lingerie and nothing else.
- Eva beat all of her Sentinel co-stars at the shooting range. Eva jokes, "Michael Douglas was mad. He was like, Why am I third?"
- Eva has been in love less than five times.
- Eva blames her 2004 Golden Globe Awards nomination snub on not attending a Hollywood Foreign Press Association lunch.
- Eva recieved her first Golden Globe nomination, in 2005, for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series, (Musical or Comedy) for her role in Desperate Housewives.
- In the December 2005 issue of Cosmopolitan Magazine, Eva stated that her favorite part of her body was her butt.
- Eva has appeared in New York & Company ads.
- Eva hosted Saturday Night Live on 11-19-05. In one segment, poking fun of the famous Vanity Fair Cover Shoot, she played Teri Hatcher.
- Eva likes British guys. If she could pick one to go out with it would be Ewan McGregor. She has met Ewan once.
- Eva has said that she would like to go on a date with Brad Pitt.
- As a child, Eva was called prieta fea, because of her dark hair, skin, and eyes.
- In 2005, Eva was a spokesmodel for Hanes.
- Eva has practiced shooting her whole life.
- Eva was voted #3 on E!'s 2006 "50 Steamiest Southern Stars."
- Eva has a passion for the study of Latino literature and history.
- Eva lists her all-time favorite video game as "Pac Man."
- Eva has been romantically linked to Screen Actors Guild president Sid Laura Horowitz, writer Milan Gracanin.
- Eva caused a stir at the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards when she appeared in a one-piece bathing suit, and joked that she “wasn’t going to let a little hurricane keep me from wearing a bathing suit.”
- Eva was teased about being ugly when she was a teenager.
- Eva was once an NCA cheerleader.
- Teen Choice Awards: Breakout Female Actress (2005)
Screen Actors Guild Awards: Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series, Desperate Housewives (2005)
ALMA Awards: Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama, The Young and the Restless (2002) - Eva campaigned for Democrat John Kerry in the 2004 Presidential Election.
- Eva likes to volunteer for the Special Olympics.
- Eva currently resides in Los Angeles.
- Eva got her start in the entertainment industry by entering a talent contest that brought her to Los Angeles.
- Eva has beautiful brown eyes.
- Eva says she is most attracted to men with foreign accents.
- Eva is the youngest of four sisters.
- Eva was voted the sexiest TV beauty of all time in the survey by British supermarket Sainsbury's.
- Eva was voted #1 on Maxim magazine's 'Top 100' list for 2005.
- Eva once thought she was adopted because all her sisters had light hair, light skin and blue eyes.
- In 1998 Eva was named Miss Corpus Christi USA.
- Eva attended Texas A&M-Kingsville, and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Kinesiology.
- Eva is Mexican American.
- Despite her romance with pop star J.C. Chasez of *NSYNC, Eva claims she refuses to romance fellow celebrities because everyone in Hollywood has slept with each other.
- Eva has her husband Tony Parker's initials tattooed in an intimate area of her body.
- Auction off the bathing suit she wore at 2005 MTV Video Music Awards to raise money for victims of Hurricane Katrina.
- Eva has confessed to two-timing in the past.
- Tiny 5'2" Eva wears size zero clothes.
- Eva is reportedly earning $30,000 per episode for Desperate Housewives, while co-star Teri Hatcher earns twice as much ($60,000).
- Eva was very active in the 2004 presidential campaign. She was personally responsible for registering over 100 new voters!
- Eva recently purchased a Hollywood Hills home. The house is Mediterranean style, built in 1924. It has a tiled roof, as well as stone arches. Her old home was in Los Feliz, a two-bedroom stucco house built in 1978.
- Eva was rushed to hospital on August 17, 2005 during shooting on the second season of Desperate Housewives when she was hit by a pole. She was filming on location in Pasadena California when the incident happened. Eva was taken to a nearby hospital where she was treated and released.
- Eva once performed with the group "The Pussycat Dolls."
- Eva is taking French lessons so that she can talk to her boyfriend Tony Parker in his native tongue (he grew up in France).
- Eva is involved with the Padres Contra El Cancer, (helping Latinos with cancer). She is their national spokesperson.
- Eva celebrated her theatre debut in the comedy, What the Rabbi Saw.
- Eva was married to General Hospital star Tyler Christopher from 2002 to 2004.
- Eva spoke candidly about her affection for vibrators in an interview that Rolling Stone magazine published December 15, 2004. Readers started sending sex toys to Longoria. ABC soon asked her to stop mentioning vibrators in interviews.
Quotes
- Eva: I love doing squats in the gym. When I do them my butt beefs up and I fill out my jeans better. I'm constantly working on my butt because of, you know, gravity.
- Eva: (on the media coverage when wearing Victoria Beckham's jeans line) Victoria gave me a couple of pairs and I love them. They were so tight, my gut was hanging over the top before dinner. Then, we came out of the restaurant and I was totally bloated. And now, apparently I have a baby bump!
- Eva: We both want children. And we both can't wait and we practice a lot. But nothing yet. I'll let you know.
- Eva: (revealing she has taken her husband's surname and will now be known as Eva Longoria Parker) I actually completely adopted the new name and I love it - I'm a Parker now! I love every bit of it - I like the tradition of changing the name. I've been getting used to being called Mrs. Parker for a while now, it's really nice to hear. Especially in Texas, everyone is really respectful there.
- Eva: (revealing herself and fiancé Tony might adopt after they are married) We both have big hearts and the finances to do it, and we want to be able to provide an environment of love and stability to a child who otherwise wouldn't have that.
- Eva: My friend Kenny Chesney is going to sing at my wedding. He just doesn't know it yet.
- Eva: I get my hair and makeup done at work. After a while you get tired of being touched. When you do it all the time, it's refreshing when you don't do it... Tony says he loves the way I look when I wake up in the morning, which is the reason why I'm marrying him.
- Eva: I hate sex scenes and kissing scenes. It’s just an uncomfortable situation for everybody: ‘Put your elbow over here, find your light here’. It’s not really natural and just awkward.
- Eva: There is such a thing as a bad chat-up line; and they've all been tried out on me.
- Eva: (revealing she enjoys being dominated in the bedroom) I'm not averse to being tied up in silk scarves. I like a man to take charge. There's something very sexy about being submissive.
- Eva: Probably 80 per cent of the scripts I'm sent are dramatic. I've had very few sexy offers, to the point where I'm getting annoyed and going, 'Hey where's the sexy stuff?' I'm going for the sexy roles for as long as I can, because women have an expiration date in this business.
- Eva: God blessed me with some great, unique features, some beautiful, in my eyes, and some not so beautiful. But I think we are all created this way for a reason, so I have no desire to tamper with that.
- Eva: I grew up as the ugly duckling. I was the only one with a dark skin and therefor i didn't really fit in. A lot of people made jokes of me as "the adopted one"
- Eva (About Tony): We're not just a couple... this is the man I want to spend the rest of my life with.
- Eva: I'm here today to announce my candidacy for president. Oh, wrong speech! In the last two years, I've had an affair with the gardener and a teenager, I've faked a paternity test, my husband went to prison, and I threw him out of a window. I would probably win in California.
- Eva: I think everybody on Wisteria Lane has the money of a Republican, but the sex life of a Democrat so it's a really political show.
- Eva: I can skin a deer. I can skin a pig. I can pluck a quail. You name it, I've done it!
- Eva (on keeping fit): I do kickboxing a couple of times a week and then the rest of the time I do yoga, stairs and a little weight training. But I’m lucky because I don’t put on weight very easily.
- Eva: Thirty looks young now! I feel like I have my whole life in front of me.
- Eva: Forget Mike (James Denton) and John (Jesse Metcalfe), the one who really does it for me is Mr. Solis (Ricardo Chavira). He's strong, rich, tall, dark and handsome, and a great kisser.
- Eva: I learned very young that jealousy is a waste of energy, and the more you think about jealousy or act upon it, the more you create it.
- Eva: There's something very sexy about being submissive. Because your guard is down, you have to totally surrender to something like that.
- Eva: I met her [Cameron Diaz] and i was like, Oh my God, will you marry me?
- Eva: To be with the same person for the rest of your life just sounds so drab.
- Eva: I just came into my own sexuality at thirty. I don't think it's something you can deeply experience at 18 or any time before that.
- Eva: The best sex I have ever had was with my vibrator.
- Eva: I’ve always said I want a farmer, not a hunter. Hunters go for the kill and they move on. A farmer nurtures; he watches things grow.
- Eva: I find it a turnoff whenever men aren't into some kind of sport. And, no, video games don't count. I dated a guy who was into video games, and I wanted to shoot myself.
- Eva: I could be a party girl, dating whoever I want. But I like being in a relationship.
- Eva: I love being pursued. If you're not a challenge it's just not as fun for the guy
- Eva: I'm a fabulous date, I make sure I look good, I like hearing what a guy has to say and I make sure the evening is a real laugh. I like to laugh.
- Eva: I'm Latina. I was born with high heels. We crossed border in high heels. We were running from immigration..... I can do aerobics in heels.
- Eva: I don't really use a lot of products in my hair, but my favourite thing to use is Big Sexy hairspray. It's amazing! My hair is really heavy and the hairspray is strong enough to hold it, but light enough to keep movement in my hair.
- Eva (On getting the part of Gabby): As soon as I read the script I knew it was pretty special. The creator of the show asked what I thought of the writing as a whole. I told him I had no idea because I'd only read my part. He laughed and told me I'd got the job. He thought my answer was completely Gabrielle.
- Eva: I would never leave Desperate Housewives. I love doing both (TV and film), but I would never do another TV show after Desperate Housewives. No.
- Eva:I really want to do more films instead of TV and get the opportunity to meet people like Michael and Kiefer Sutherland.
- Eva:I want to play strong women. I would love to do a romantic comedy next; I love people like Vince Vaughn, Jim Carrey, Matthew McConaughey and Hugh Grant.
- Eva Longoria: I had everybody over for dinner. Marcia, Felicity [Huffman] and Brenda [Strong] came over and Marcia told us she had an announcement.(talking about the pregnancy of Marcia Cross)
- Eva Longoria: I have a trainer. I train every day but I get really bored really easily so we do weight training, balance training, core training, jump rope, everything. I have to eat healthily, but I'm lucky in that I love eating fish and vegetables. On the set our caterers will make anything I want. So if I feel like meatloaf they'll make it, if I say sea bass they will cook that for me.
- Eva Longoria:I love facials - I'm a spa junkie. I love massages and scrubs and I am obsessed with shoes. I do pinch myself when I see how many pairs of shoes I have. My boyfriend Tony can't believe it.
- Eva: I didn't really blossom until my mid teens and by that time I had to work on my personality to make people like me. I found it easy to make people laugh and I was always pretty popular.
- Eva Longotia(talking about her costar on Desperate Housewives Ricardo A. Chavira):On the show, Ricardo plays Carlos as the typical Latin lover, full of machismo. A lot of women find that very sexy. Not me, though. Ricardo is nothing like Carlos. Yes, he’s the classic tall, dark, handsome man. But he’s also extremely kind, a gentleman. He’s very chivalrous, always pulling out people’s chairs. Mainly he’s intelligent, with an amazing sense of humor — those two things define sexy to me. We’re both from Texas, so we fly home a lot together, and we often go to Spurs games together. He’s great to fly with, very calm. But at the game we’re both very intense. Don’t even talk to us during a game — we’re all business!
- Eva Longoria (About her friend Felicity Huffman, who was nominated for the Oscar but didn't win): I was extremely disappointed. I think Felicity in particular transformed herself into something different, something believable, being a woman who is playing a man trying to become a woman. I said to her, 'How is everything going on the campaign trail?' and she said, 'You know what I I realized? That I really want to win.' And so knowing that, I was so sad that she didn't because I knew she really wanted to.
- Eva Longoria: Funnily, I don’t have any problem finding a gardener. I think I gave a boost to the gardening profession. [laughs]
- Eva Longoria (on her work ethic): My work ethic comes from being surrounded by great women growing up - my mum and my three sisters. There were no men and they’d really focus on education and career more than falling in love, getting married and having children.
- Eva Longoria (on plastic surgery): I think 80 is beautiful. I think my mother is beautiful, my sisters are beautiful. The obsession for plastic surgery is really out of control. I don’t think that extreme kind of thing will work with me. I do a lot of anti-ageing things to slow the process down, but I will never cut my face.
- Eva Longoria: My idol was Catherine Zeta-Jones. I always looked up to her. I was like, ‘Oh!’ because she’s brunette. I thought she was Latina because of her character in the movie The Mask of Zorro
- Eva Longoria.(talking about her character on desperate housewives):[Gabrielle] has grown enormously since season one. She has put aside her selfishness to give into Carlos to have a baby. Once she had the miscarriage, you finally saw a softer side of Gabrielle, which I think people identified more with because you saw she was human.
- Eva Longoria: I think what destroys Hollywood marriages is our work schedule, not so much infidelity.
- Eva Longoria: I'm like Blanche on The Golden Girls. I have a good head on my shoulders, but once in a while a man will come and knock the sense out of me.
- Eva Longoria: Every actor hates being pregnant on a show because you have to wear those awful fake stomachs and you and up getting the all the drab, crappy maternity clothes. So I asked Marc right from the get go, "Please don't make me pregnant!" And at the end of season one I am pregnant. I asked him to wait until I got pregnant in real life so that could write it in then. He said, "that's a good idea. When are you planning on getting pregnant?" I said, "In about five years," and he said, "Oh honey, you have to be pregnant before season five!"
- Eva Longoria: My No. 1 priority is not to stay young forever. I want to grow old. Your looks can only last so long and you can’t depend on them forever.
- Eva Longoria: Eva is a t-shirt and jeans. Gabrielle is definitely a little more fashionable. I love Gabrielle's sense of style, but I can't take any claim for it--I just wear what the shows tells me to.
- Eva Longoria: My biggest girl indulgence? Shoes! Definitely shoes!
- Eva Longoria:I'm a product junkie; I love everything about products. Every time I do a photo shoot, there's something new a makeup artist brings that I have ti try. One of my favourite things right now is Girlactik makeup. It's really fun and the texture goes on like silk.
- Eva Longoria: It's a shame because you can't be private about your life and you can't be public. If people say, 'How are you and Tony?' and I say, 'I don't want to talk about my personal life,' they're like 'Trouble in paradise: Eva doesn't speak about it.' Then you talk about it, and they're like: 'Trouble in paradise: Eva speaks out.' You can't win.
- Eva Longoria: How I'm the experienced one because I've been married, divorced, I've been in several long-term relationships. Tony's been in one long-term relationship and he's 23. I'm 31. I don't know where they got 'teacher of sex.'
- Eva Longoria: I'd much rather be in a relationship There's no way in the world I would rather be single. Tony is too. I've said the only reason Tony and I are going to stay together forever is because we're too lazy to look for someone else.
- Eva Longoria: I absolutely want to ... still go home at night to put my kids to bed. I won't do a movie if it means canceling a vacation with Tony or my family. I would much rather get married and have babies than have the best career in the world.
- Eva Longoria: Tony and I are not engaged. I'm not pregnant.
- Eva Longoria:I fly home to Texas every weekend to be with Tony(her boyfriend), and we know we have limited time together so we don't waste it on anything like fighting.
- Eva Longoria:I'm the baby. They all worry about me; they all take care of me. Even though I am the famous one or the rich one, I'll always be the little one.(She commands it from her parents and her three older sisters)
- Eva Longoria:I'm the party planner, the social calendar girl, the activities director. Nothing goes on without me knowing.
- Eva Longoria: Cancer is hard enough to deal with as it is. Imagine doing it in another language. Padres provides these families information and support in their own language. It makes a huge difference.[talking about the organization "Padres Contra el Cancer" (Parents Against Cancer)]
- Eva Longoria (Talking about season 3 of Desperate Housewives): I was so pleased with episode one, it just so much in it I mean it has the mystery set up for the season, we have our drama set up between Carlos and I, Jesse Metcalfe is coming back which I'm really excited about and then I read episode two and i freaked out about what happens in episode two my mouth just dropped today.
- Eva Longoria: I don't agree with all the boundaries we put on everything. Women are forever discounting men for all sorts of silly reasons - too old, too young, wrong haircut. Give the guy a chance and he may surprise you. I've definitely been pleasantly surprised by my choices and I've always had plenty of choice.
- Eva Longoria:It's so exciting to play the scene where Gabrielle shows more depht. I didn't want to be just the hussy on the show, who is superficial and doesn't have any depht. So once these scenes started to come about, like the speech with Carlos when they're broke and she says," Poor is just a state of mind," you get to see that vulnerable side of her. It's always nice to see those moments because then you realize she's human.
- Eva Longoria(Talking about Desperate Housewives): That scene in the mall was my favourite because the show had just hit and all the fans were there. It was really cool to have all these people watch us shoot. Now it's impossible to do that, but I loved the physical comedy of that scene, getting stuck on the turntable, and love the actress who played the woman who fixes it.
- Eva Longoria (Talking about one scene on Desperate Housewives): I have a great stunt double. She looks like my twin. I wanted to do the part where I climb over the fence but they said, "We want you to really fly over." I said "Oh. I can't do that." It was my foot but she was the one who flew over.
- Eva Longoria(Talking about Desperate Housewives): We were shooting that bathtub scene so long that the stickies on my nipples came off. I didn't realize it. It's such an event for Jesse and me to do nude scene because we both have so many tattoos and we have to cover all of them. The water turns brown from all the bady makeup. Ricardo gets to keep his tattoos because they said Carlos would be a men who had them.
- Eva Longoria (Talking about one scene on Desperate Houseiwves): I had to hold my breath for a long time in the bathtub scene and I almost drowned. I thought it was a wonderful shot, though, how it seems like she's drowning herself and you hear the voiceover about people wanting life to be over, and then she comes up into the gardener's arms in the bathtub and the voiceover says that Gabrielle found a lifesaver in John.
- Eva Longoria(Talking about one scene on Desperate Housewives): It was really cold when we did the pilot. It was early March and it was freezing. For the scene where Gabrielle mows the lawn in the middle of the party, the grass was wet, and I was in heels, and my dress was lace. It was an old-fashioned lawn mower, so it was hard to push and grass was literally flying up on my face. I remember the director saying, "All that spitting out of the grass, that's great. You should do that." I said, "No. There's really grass in my mouth." I wasn't hard to act like I was having trouble with the lawn mower because I was. But I thought that the scene was so funny that it was hard for me to keep from laughing.
- Eva Longoria: I don't regret anything I ever do or say. I don't like to live my life being censored. I like to say what I feel, and I think people respect that because you're honest.
- Eva Longoria: I grew up as an ugly duckling. They used to call me prieta fea (ugly dark one), because I was the only one of my family's four girls with dark hair, dark eyes, and dark skin. Growing up I was the ugly one, because I was the odd one.
- Eva Longoria:It was a great game! The game was tied the entire time and both teams played their hearts out. I was sad when Argentina scored in overtime. It was sad to see Mexico lose.(talking about the match world cup 2006)
- Eva Longoria:I don't think Gabrielle comes from an evil place. I think she's just confused and she's trying to find her happiness and going about it the wrong way.
- Eva Longoria: It's totally normal to be married and not have kids, and I love representing that little slice of life whoever is out there and identifies with it.
- Eva: I like being small, I've known so many women with big boobs who feel overweight or end up with back problems.
- Eva: Gabrielle is the exact opposite of me, which is always fun. She's very challenging because she doesn't have any moral boundaries. She doesn't live by any codes.
- Eva: I think what destroys Hollywood marriages is our work schedule, not so much infidelity.
- Eva: I find it a turnoff whenever men aren't into some kind of sport. And, no, video games don't count. I dated a guy who was into video games, and I wanted to shoot myself.
- Eva: (On her autobiography) They offered a huge deal and I like the idea of seeing my book on a shelf. The plot’s top secret so far, but let’s just say I have a wild imagination.
- Eva: The pinnacle for me was being on Oprah!
