Jordana Brewster is an American actress. She made her acting debut in an episode of All My Children in 1995 and next took on the recurring role as Nikki Munson in As the World Turns, garnering a nomination for Outstanding Teen Performer at the 1997 Soap Opera Digest Award. Her first role in a feature film was in Robert Rodriguez's horror science fiction The Faculty.

Brewster's breakthrough came with her role of Mia Toretto in the action film The Fast and the Furious. She reprized the role in its sequels Fast & Furious, Fast Five, Fast & Furious 6, Furious 7, F9, and Fast X. Other film credits include the drama The Invisible Circus, the action comedy D.E.B.S. and the horror film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning.

Brewster starred on the re-booted TNT series Dallas from 2012 to 2014. She also had a five-episode arc as Denise Brown in the first season of the FX true crime anthology series American Crime Story. She also starred as Dr. Maureen Cahill on the Fox buddy cop action dramedy Lethal Weapon .

Jordana Brewster was born in Panama City, Panama, on April 26, 1980, the older of two daughters. Her mother, Maria João, is a former swimsuit model from Brazil who appeared on the 1978 cover of Sports Illustrated, and her father, Alden Brewster, is an American investment banker. Her paternal grandfather, Kingman Brewster Jr., was president of Yale University and the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom. Brewster is a direct descendant of Mayflower passengers William Brewster and Edward Doty. Jordana lived in London, England and moved to Brazil when she was six years old. She left Brazil at 10, settling in Manhattan, New York City, where she studied at the Convent of the Sacred Heart and graduated from the Professional Children's School. Brewster graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in English Literature in 2003.

She played the recurring role of rebellious girl Nikki Munson on As the World Turns. She appeared in a total of 104 episodes of the soap opera from 1995 to 2001.
In 1976, she played a grieving young girl who goes to Europe to find answers to her sister's suicide. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was released in a limited number of theaters.
It happened when she was cast as Mia Toretto opposite Vin Diesel and Paul Walker in The Fast and the Furious. Since he did not have a driver's license, he took driving lessons during production. In his review for the film, Variety's Todd McCarthy noted that Brewster "does a better job here than he did recently as a searching teenager in The Invisible Circus." The film was a commercial success, grossing over US$207 million worldwide.