Editing Michelle Rodriguez (section)

==Early life==
Mayte Michelle Rodriguez<ref>{{cite web |title=Woman |website=Michelle-Rodriguez.com (official site) |url=http://www.michelle-rodriguez.com/woman.htm |access-date=February 7, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120615031817/http://www.michelle-rodriguez.com/woman.htm |archive-date=June 15, 2012 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> was born on July 12, 1978,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://movies.msn.com/celebrities/celebrity-biography/michelle-rodriguez.1/ |title=Michelle Rodriguez: Biography |first=Rebecca Flint |last=Marx |access-date=August 27, 2008 |year=2008 |work=[[Rovi]] |via=[[MSN]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728113156/http://movies.msn.com/celebrities/celebrity-biography/michelle-rodriguez.1/ |archive-date=July 28, 2011 |url-status=dead |df=mdy }}</ref> in [[San Antonio, Texas]].<ref name=bossip>{{cite web|url=https://bossip.com/593169/race-matters-michelle-rodriguez-recently-discovered-her-fathers-ancestors-practice-inbreeding-to-keep-the-fam-light-and-bright/|title=Race Matters: Michelle Rodriguez Recently Discovered Her Father's Ancestors Practiced Inbreeding To Keep The Fam 'Light And Bright'|date=June 2, 2012|access-date=June 29, 2017|website=Bossip.com|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180213022410/https://bossip.com/593169/race-matters-michelle-rodriguez-recently-discovered-her-fathers-ancestors-practice-inbreeding-to-keep-the-fam-light-and-bright/|archive-date=February 13, 2018|df=mdy-all}} citing ''[[Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.]]'', May 20, 2012, PBS.</ref> Her mother, Carmen Milady Rodriguez (née Pared Espinal),{{family name footnote|"Pared"|"Espinal"|lang=Spanish}} is Dominican, while her father, Rafael Rodriguez, was Puerto Rican and served in the [[United States Army|U.S. Army]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.latina.com/entertainment/celebrity/michelle-rodriguez-i-feel-im-being-born-again|title=Michelle Rodriguez: "I Feel Like I'm Being Born Again"|work=[[Latina (magazine)|Latina]]|access-date=November 13, 2010|first=Angie|last=Romero|date=April 15, 2009|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120401124716/http://www.latina.com/entertainment/celebrity/michelle-rodriguez-i-feel-im-being-born-again|archive-date=April 1, 2012|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref>Stated on ''Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'', May 20, 2012, PBS</ref> Rodriguez moved to the Dominican Republic with her mother when she was eight years old, and lived there until age 11. Later, she moved to Puerto Rico until the age of 17, and finally settled in [[Jersey City, New Jersey]]. She dropped out of [[William L. Dickinson High School]], but later earned her [[General Educational Development|GED]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Michelle Rodriguez- Biography |url=https://movies.yahoo.com/person/michelle-rodriguez/biography.html;_ylt=AhHsucszksNrCCaxbI69Gnn3TssF;_ylu=X3oDMTI2ajBnaDlrBG1pdANQZXJzb24gRW50aXR5IEFib3V0BHBvcwMxBHNlYwNNZWRpYUVudGl0eUFib3V0TGlua3NQYWNrYWdlQXNzZW1ibHk-;_ylg=X3oDMTE2Z2ppM3RwBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDBHBzdGNhdAMEcHQD;_ylv=3 |work=[[Yahoo! Movies]] |access-date=October 13, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140908060930/https://movies.yahoo.com/person/michelle-rodriguez/biography.html%3B_ylt%3DAhHsucszksNrCCaxbI69Gnn3TssF%3B_ylu%3DX3oDMTI2ajBnaDlrBG1pdANQZXJzb24gRW50aXR5IEFib3V0BHBvcwMxBHNlYwNNZWRpYUVudGl0eUFib3V0TGlua3NQYWNrYWdlQXNzZW1ibHk-%3B_ylg%3DX3oDMTE2Z2ppM3RwBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDBHBzdGNhdAMEcHQD%3B_ylv%3D3 |archive-date=September 8, 2014 }}</ref> In total, she was expelled from five schools.<ref name=Guardian>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/apr/11/michelle-rodriguez-fast-and-furious |title=Amy Raphael interviews Michelle Rodriguez |work=The Guardian |first=Amy |last=Raphael |location=UK |access-date=November 13, 2010 |date=April 11, 2009 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140908061131/http://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/apr/11/michelle-rodriguez-fast-and-furious |archive-date=September 8, 2014 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> She briefly attended business school before quitting to pursue a career in acting, with the ultimate goal of becoming a screenwriter and director.<ref>{{cite web|title=Michelle Rodriguez Official Biography|url=http://www.michelle-rodriguez.com/bio.htm|access-date=June 6, 2008 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080516051709/http://www.michelle-rodriguez.com/bio.htm |archive-date = May 16, 2008}}</ref> Rodriguez has ten siblings and half-siblings. She was partly raised by her devoutly religious maternal grandmother, and was brought up as a Jehovah's Witness (her mother's religion), although she has since abandoned the faith.<ref>{{cite news|title=Michelle Rodriguez: in role after role, she has kicked the stereotype of the token female in the teeth, leaving an imprint all her own. |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1285/is_8_33/ai_106914962 |access-date=December 25, 2007 |date=September 2003 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080112031745/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1285/is_8_33/ai_106914962 |archive-date=January 12, 2008 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The Religious Affiliation of Actress Michelle Rodriguez |url=http://www.adherents.com/people/pr/Michelle_Rodriguez.html |website=Adherents.com |access-date=December 25, 2007 |date=August 11, 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111223154419/http://www.adherents.com/people/pr/Michelle_Rodriguez.html |archive-date=December 23, 2011 |url-status=usurped|df=mdy }}</ref> A [[Genetic genealogy|DNA test]] of Rodriguez, performed by the television program ''[[Finding Your Roots]]'', found that her ancestry is 72.4% European, 21.3% African, and 6.3% Native American. She stated on the show that there was some racial conflict between her families, since her Puerto Rican father had a light complexion as opposed to her darker skinned Dominican mother.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.pbs.org/wnet/finding-your-roots/video/adrian-grenier-michelle-rodriguez-and-linda-chavez/ |work=PBS |title=Adrian Grenier, Michelle Rodriguez, and Linda Chavez (@ the 47:30 mark) |date=March 22, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130330110737/https://www.pbs.org/wnet/finding-your-roots/video/adrian-grenier-michelle-rodriguez-and-linda-chavez/ |archive-date=March 30, 2013 }}</ref>