As the cook's daughter, Elena Ramos spent her childhood on Southfork with John Ross and Christopher Growing up, John Ross, Christopher and Elena were as close as the Three Musketeers, and while Elena never played favorites between the cousins, it was always Christopher who secretly had her heart. When a misunderstanding led to their wedding getting called off, a heartbroken Elena fled to Mexico, where John Ross found her and confessed his love. After he later lied to Elena about his plan to take over Southfork, Elena dumped him and found her way back into Christopher's heart. With a stake in Ewing Energies and her dream of success in the oil industry, Elena is ready to strike it big.
Jordana Brewster's talent, beauty and natural screen presence have etched her a permanent place in Hollywood in both film and television. Brewster was recently seen in 2011's Fast Five, which broke box office records to earn the highest-grossing April opening weekend and become the highest-grossing film in the Fast & the Furious franchise.
Some of Brewster's past credits include small screen roles on TNT's Dark Blue and NBC's Chuck, the lead role in the 2007 ABC pilot Mr. and Mrs. Smith, the starring role opposite James Franco in Annapolis for Disney and a role in Nearing Grace, an indie film adapted from Scott Sommer's novel Nearing's Grace, which premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival in July 2005.
Brewster also stared in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre prequel, directed by Jonathan Liebesman for New Line, and was seen in the Sundance hit D.E.B.S., based on Angela Robinson's comedy short, which was released by Samuel Goldwyn Films in March 2005.
Prior to that, Brewster starred as Mia in Universal Pictures' box office hit The Fast and The Furious for director Rob Cohen in 2001 and as Delilah in the science-fiction thriller The Faculty, for director Robert Rodriguez and Miramax's Dimension Films in 1998. Brewster also starred alongside Cameron Diaz, Blythe Danner and Christopher Eccleston in The Invisible Circus for director Adam Brooks, which premiered at Sundance 2001. She received critical praise for her work in the highly rated NBC miniseries, The Sixties.
Brewster sharpened her acting skills on the daytime drama As the World Turns, where she divided her time between high school and her role as Nikki Munson on the Emmy-winning series. She took some time off after The Fast and The Furious to attend Yale University, graduating in 2003 with a degree in English. She has lived in Brazil, England and New York and currently resides in Los Angeles with her husband.
