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Minka Kelly

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  • After graduating from high school, she returned from New Mexico to Los Angeles with her father to pursue acting as a hobby while she went to school to become a surgical technician. However, after her first acting class, she got hooked and began pursuing acting as a career.
  • Named the "Sexiest Woman Alive" by Esquire magazine [October 11, 2010].
  • Grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
  • Her secret engagement to Derek Jeter, which became public in January 2010, ended in August 2011.
  • Her grandfather is actor Richard Ney, co-star and ex-husband of Academy Award-winning actress Greer Garson.
  • Graduated from Valley High School in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1998.
  • Daughter of Rick Dufay and Maureen Kelly.
  • She is the first actress to play the DC Comics character Dawn Granger/Dove in a live-action adaptation.
  • She has Austrian, German, Irish, English, French, Scottish, Dutch, and likely 1/32 Indonesian, ancestry.
  • Ranked #54 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2008 list.
  • Ranked #42 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2007 list.

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