Eva Longoria: All About the Desperate Housewives Star

Eva Longoria's name has been one of the hottest Google search terms in recent months. The Desperate Housewives star made headlines earlier this year with a purported sex tape later declared a hoax. The Google-ability of the phrase "Eva Longoria sex tape" was so hot that it made Google's top 10 search term list. The "controversy" could be seen as just a publicity speed bump for Longoria, who made several badly-received film attempts before hitting a major role with Michael Douglas in The Sentinel. In spite of the early failure of her roles in Carlita's Secret and Senorita Justice, Longoria has her sights set on the silver screen.

Long before the Eva Longoria sex tape scandal, she was busy with college, and competing for pageants and contests. She won Miss Corpus Christi 1998, then entered a talent contest in Los Angeles and landed an agent shortly after. Two years later Longoria found herself landing her first television role in Beverly Hills 90210. After her TV debut in the year 2000, she did a turn as a regular on General Hospital that lasted until 2003, the same year People Magazine named Longoria on its list of Most Beautiful People for '03.

Just a year later and Longoria scored the role people call an "overnight success" on Desperate Housewives. She had been grooming her career for nearly ten years at that point, but the Housewives role is what catapulted her to A-list fame, bringing her to the cover the Maxim Magazine and other popular Men's journals. Longoria branched out into the music industry in 2006, appearing in a Jessica Simpson video with Christina Applegate.