Yvette Yates

Yvette Yates is an actress who grew up between El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, and later studied at U.C.L.A. She took the female lead in the action film El Gringo (2012), opposite Scott Adkins and Christian Slater, and a New York Times review praised her performance in the part. She appeared with Eva Longoria, Kate Del Castillo and Christian Slater in the comedy Without Men (2011), and with Gina Carano in the action thriller In the Blood (2014), playing a character named Leta. Her other screen credits include Water & Power (2013), based on a Mark Taper play, Sorority Party Massacre (2012) and Free Ride, with Anna Paquin. She joined the cast of Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice as Luz, and in 2008 she was nominated for Best Actress in Film at the Imagen Awards for her role in Niña Quebrada.