Camila Mendes
Birthdate: Jun 29, 1994
Birthplace: Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Camila Mendes (birthname: Camila Carraro Mendes), who made her professional acting breakthrough in her recurring debut role on the CW series, Riverdale (2017-2023), appeared in her first theatrical release in Canadian director/writer Carly Stone’s comedy-drama, The New Romantic (2018), starring Jessica Barden, Hayley Law and Brett Dier and which premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival before a limited release by Elevation Pictures. Mendes was cast in her first lead movie role in director/writer Sara Seligman’s U.S. indie drama, Coyote Lake (2019), co-starring Charlie Weber, Adriana Barraza, Neil Sandilands, and Manny Perez, and released in a limited pattern by Cranked Up Films.
Mendes played the supporting role of a bride in director/story co-writer Max Barbakow’s rom com, Palm Springs (2020), written by Andy Siara, starring and produced (in part) by Andy Samberg and co-starring Cristi Milioti, J.K. Simmons, Meredith Hagner, Tyler Hoechlin, Peter Gallagher, June Squibb and Dale Dickey, premiering to positive reviews in the Sundance Film Festival and released by Neon to a $1.5 million return (while also streaming on Hulu). Mendes starred in a string of streaming movies from 2020 to 2024 (Dangerous Lies, Do Revenge, Upgraded and Musica), and then returned to a co-starring movie role in and as a lead producer of director/writer/producer Nastasya Popov’s U.S. indie comedy, Idiotka (2025), starring Anna Baryshnikov, Owen Thiele, Benito Skinner and Julia Fox, launching at the South by Southwest Film Festival and released by Utopia.
Camila Mendes co-starred in her first franchise movie in the second live-action movie version of Mattel’s sword-and-sorcery movie, Masters of the Universe (2026), starring Nicholas Galitzine, Alison Brie, James Purefoy, Morena Baccarin, Johannes Haukur Johannesson, Kristen Wiig, Jared Leto and Idris Elba, produced (in part) by Todd Black as well as distributor Amazon MGM Studios, Mattel Studios and Escape Artists and released internationally by Sony Pictures Releasing. Mendes joined the cast of director/writer/producer/star Danny Ramirez’s soccer drama, Baton (2026), co-starring Maia Reficco, Lewis Pullman, Diego Calva, Mia Maestro, Gabriel Luna, Becky G, Edgar Ramirez, and Rosario Dawson, and which was produced by Mapuche Films/Pinstripes/Peachtree Media/Gramercy Park Media.
Mendes starred in director/co-writer Carlos Lopez Estrada’s supernatural drama, DED (date to be announced), co-written by Anna Moskowitz, co-starring Eugenio Derbez, Carlos Lopez Estrada, and Arcelia Ramirez, and which was produced by Honor Role/Redrum/Spark Features/Magic Hour Entertainment/Cedar Road/Antigravity Academy. Mendes joined director/co-writer/producer Guy Ritchie for his thriller, Viva La Madness (2011), based on co-writer J.J. Connelly’s 2011 novel and sequel to Layer Cake, produced in part by and starring Jason Statham, Vinnie Jones, Jason Isaacs, Ben Foster and Jonny Lee Miller, produced (in part) and released in the U.S. by Black Bear Pictures and in the U.K. by Amazon MGM Studios.
Camila Mendes co-starred with co-writer/producer Pete Davidson and Paul Walter Hauser in director/co-writer Justin Chon’s Tommy Karate (date to be announced), with Simon Rex, and was produced by north.five.six./Two & Two Pictures/Gramercy Park Media. Mendes also produced (under her Honor Role production banner) but did not appear in debuting director/writer Nicholas Colia’s indie comedy-drama, Griffin in Summer (2024), starring Everett Blunck, Owen Teague, Abby Ryder Fortson, Kathryn Newton, and Melanie Lynskey, premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival (where it won Best U.S. Narrative Feature and Best Screenplay), and released by Vertical.
Personal life
Camila Mendes was born in Charlottesville, Virginia, and raised in Charlottesville; Atlanta, Georgia; Orlando, Florida and twelve other locstions (including a year in Brazil) by her Brazilian-born parents Gisele (flight attendant) and Victor (business executive). Mendes has one sister, Viviane. Mendes attended and graduated from American Heritage School in 2012, with a degree in Fine Arts. Mendes attended and graduated from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. Mendes has had relationships with photographer/director Ian Wallace and actor Charles Melton and was engaged to actor/internet personality Rudy Mancuso in 2025. Mendes’s height is 5’ 3”. Mendes’s estimated net worth is $5 million.
Known For
Camila Mendes Movies
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Upcoming (2)
- 2026 |
Masters of the Universe
asTeela
A young prince of Eternia, sent to Earth as a child and raised as an ordinary office worker, stumbles into the Sword of Power and discovers that he is He-Man. Pulled back to his home planet to defend it from the skeletal warlord Skeletor, he must claim a destiny he never asked for, in a story about identity, inheritance, family, and the weight of becoming a hero.
- 1970 |
Idiotka
asNicol Garcia
Idiotka
In West Hollywood's Russian district, Margarita lives out the American Dream: competing on a reality show. Will she slay, serve, or survive?
Previous (9)
- 2024 | Griffin in Summer
- 2024 | Música
- 2024 | Upgraded
- 2022 | Do Revenge
- 2020 | Dangerous Lies
- 2020 |
Palm Springs
asTala
Nyles and Sarah find themselves stuck in a time loop and living the same day over and over again. They are drawn to each other, but certain revelations threaten their budding romance.
- 2019 | Coyote Lake
- 2019 | The Perfect Date
- 2018 | The New Romantic
Facts About Camila Mendes
Brazilian Life: Camila Mendes was ten years old when she lived in Brazil, her parents’ homeland. When she is with her parents, Mendes speaks Brazilian Portuguese, in which she is fluent.
Honor Role: Mendes is the co-founder of the film production company, Honor Role, established in 2024
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