From Having Relatives on the Mayflower to Her Most Used Emoji: 10 Things You Don't Know About Jordana Brewster

Driven Jordana Brewster zoomed to international fame as Mia Toretto in the Fast & Furious film franchise.

Now, she’s teamed up with Felicity alum Scott Speedman in the thriller Cellar Door as they portray a couple who is gifted a dream home that becomes a nightmare.

Here are ten things you don’t know about the former soap starlet.

1. She was born in Panama to a Brazilian model mother and American investment banker father.

2. Brewster is a descendant of Mayflower passengers William Brewster and Edward Doty.

3. The brunette beauty is fluent in Portuguese after spending four years of her childhood living in Rio de Janeiro.

4. As a teenager, Brewster made her acting debut on the daytime drama All My Children — and later appeared in 104 episodes of As the World Turns.

5. She graduated from Yale University with a bachelor’s degree in English literature — 25 years after her paternal grandfather ended his tenure as president of the college.

6. When Brewster accepted her first Fast & Furious role, she didn’t have a license and took driving lessons during production for the car focused action flick.

7. She’s a fan of Virginia Woolf, and her favorite novel by the author is Orlando: A Biography.

8. One of Brewster's daily habits is running on her treadmill for 30 minutes while listening to podcasts.

9. Brewster's backyard garden in California includes veggies and herbs — but she confided, “The upkeep is a little more challenging than the idea of it.”

10. She admitted her most used emoji is “definitely the poop one.”