Rodriguez Joining 'Lost' Cast

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Michelle Rodriguez is now full-time castaway on ABC’s “Lost.” The 26-year-old actress will join the cast of the drama when production resumes for its second season, ABC announced Monday.

In a flashback scene on the season finale, Rodriguez portrayed Ana-Lucia Cortez, a passenger on Oceanic flight No. 815, who flirted with Jack Shepard, played by Matthew Fox, at a bar in Sydney, Australia.

Rodriguez first caught the attention of movie audiences as a boxer in 2000’s “Girlfight.” She’s also appeared in “S.W.A.T.,” “Resident Evil,” “Blue Crush” and “The Fast and the Furious.”

ABC didn’t specify what Rodriguez’s role would be when the show returns, but many “Lost” enthusiasts believe passengers in the back half of the plane, where Cortez said she was sitting, are alive but haven’t been discovered yet.

“Lost” will air Wednesdays (9 p.m. ET) this fall.

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