Letty Ortiz Manipulated by Owen Shaw and his team in FAST & FURIOUS 6, Letty became something of a minor villain in the movie before she started to remember her life before her near-death experience.
Dom Betrayed His Crew, Including Letty, To Save His Son
Letty wasn't going to give up on her husband, though, and continued to see the good in him. Eventually, Dom turned the tides and revealed that he was actually working against Cipher the whole time and just wanted to protect his child.
It turns out that Letty was doing undercover work to take down a drug lord named Arturo Braga (John Oritz) in an attempt to get all charges cleared for Dom. It was a noble mission that got put to an abrupt end when Braga's right-hand man, Fenix Calderon (Laz Alonso), killed her.
Rejoining The Family (2014) Though Letty chose to join Dom, she still couldn't remember their relationship together, and she suffered a crisis of faith during the events of 2015's Furious 7. She broke up with Dom to get her head straight and was eventually recruited by Mr.
After a massive explosion seemingly claimed her life in 2009's Fast & Furious, it is revealed in Fast Five that Rodriguez's Letty actually survived after Hobbs finds a picture of her perfectly alive and well. It was a massive moment for the franchise, but the reveal was also big for Rodriguez.
Fast & Furious' three core relationships - the love between Letty and Dom, and Brian (Paul Walker) and Mia (Jordana Brewster), as well as the friendship between Brian and Dom - have remained the backbone of the franchise.
Amnesia. However, Letty is not killed by the explosion caused by Fenix and is instead hospitalized with amnesia. She was found two days later in the hospital, by Owen Shaw who had went there to kill her.
Michelle Rodriguez's Leticia "Letty" Ortiz is Dominic Toretto's wife and the stepmother of his son, Brian. Letty grew up down the street from the Torettos and eventually became a part of the family when she married Dom at the beginning of the fourth Fast and Furious movie.
By the time of Fast X, the Toretto family has become a solidly stable family unit, with Dom and Letty raising Dom's son Brian. They have a comfortable life, and the relationship between Dom and Letty has never been better.
In Fast Five, although Dom was married to Letty, he thought she was dead (we all did). So, he began a relationship with a Brazilian police officer named Elena (Elsa Pataky). She helped take down the Reyes crime organization because he was responsible for much of her family's suffering.
Later, Elena joined the Diplomatic Security Service and accompanies Hobbs to Los Angeles with the delivery of full pardons to Dominic and the entire crew. Elena accepts that Dominic has chosen to be with his former lover Letty as she is respectful of his family values.
While Rodriguez was aged 23, she played an 18-year-old Letty in The Fast and the Furious. The franchise's official Wikia profile on Letty states that she was born on September 7, 1983. This makes her 18 in The Fast and the Furious considering it's set in 2001.
Some time after the events of Tokyo Drift and Fast & Furious 6, Dom and Letty have returned to L.A., but Letty later breaks up with Dom in order to find herself again after her memory loss.
Since 2001's “Fast and The Furious,” Michelle Rodriguez has played Letty Ortiz, the girlfriend of Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) who pulls double duty as a speed racer and mechanic.
This placed Elena and their son in a vulnerable position for a criminal like Cipher to exploit. Cipher kidnapped Elena and their son and held them hostage to force Dom to do her bidding. Feeling the responsibility to protect his son, Dom is driven to betray his loved ones, including Letty, and his own personal code.
Her shocking murder transpires in 2009's Fast & Furious, and the first hints of her return occur in 2011's Fast Five, but it begs the question: why did Letty fake her death? Fast & Furious begins with Dominic Toretto being forced to leave behind Letty in order to keep her safe from the police.
Long story short, they clearly tied the knot in the Dominican Republic before the fourth film, which means you should probably watch Los Bandoleros—if you haven't already—to fully understand where all those flashbacks came from and what exactly it means for Letty to have her memory back.
In one of Brian and Mia's early dates, Brian hears how Dom and Letty got together when he was 16 and she was 15. (In Fast and Furious 6, Dom elaborates on this story, telling the amnesiac Letty about the time he nearly killed her while showing off in a street race.)
Per these last three films, a viewer could read Dominic Toretto as a Cuban man with a Mexican father, a white brother and sister, and a Puerto Rican grandmother. He's a guy who has made homes in the Dominican Republic (in Fast & Furious), Brazil (in Fast Five), and Los Angeles.
However, Mia gave Elena her son and was kidnapped alone instead. Dominic and the others allow Owen to leave with Riley Hicks, his lover and double agent, before going to save Jack's mother. In the aftermath, Jack was taken back to Los Angeles to live at the Toretto House with his family.
Although Dominic Toretto is of Dominican and Puerto Rican descent, the exact ethnicity of the actor who portrays him remains a mystery. Born as Mark Sinclair, the movie mogul's mother has Scottish, English, Irish and German ancestry.
OK, it's Letty, as played by Michelle Rodriguez, the once super-tight significant other of Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) who apparently died in a tumbling '70 Plymouth Road Runner about halfway through 2009's Fast & Furious, the fourth film in the series.
Michelle Rodriguez as Letty in “F9” (2021). Rodriguez originated the role in 2001's “The Fast and the Furious” and appears in this week's “Fast X.” Protective of the character, Rodriguez initially refused to come back after the first film, just to be killed off in the fourth, 2009's “Fast & Furious.” “I was like, 'No.
Mia Toretto is the youngest of the three children in the Toretto family, being the younger sister to Dominic and Jakob Toretto. Her father Jack was a professional stock driver who owned a 1970 Dodge Charger R/T.
