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| “ | Would you believe I knocked him out with my charm? | „ |
| ~ Letty to Kara. |
Leticia "Letty" Ortiz is one of the two deuteragonists (alongside Luke Hobbs) of the Fast and Furious franchise.
She is portrayed by Michelle Rodriguez, who also played Ana Lucia Cortez in Lost, Trudy Chacón in Avatar, Smurfstorm in Smurfs: The Lost Village, and Holga Kilgore in Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.
Biography
Early life
Letty was presumably born and raised in the same neighborhood as the Toretto family. She lived down the street from them. Letty took an interest in cars when she was ten years old. Dominic, a fellow car enthusiastic like his father, "always had her attention". However, when she became sixteen, Dominic became romantically interested in her.
Letty became involved in street racing in her teens. When she was fifteen years old, she participated in a street race against Dominic which resulted in both of their cars crashing. She managed to pull Dominic from the wreck of his car, almost losing her arm in the process.
When Letty was a teenager, she and Mia were caught up in an escape attempt somewhere in Boyle Heights. When they got trapped in a corner, Letty drove her car, a Ford Torino Cobra, through a retailing wall.
The Fast and the Furious
Letty is introduced as Dom's girlfriend and they have been friends since childhood. Although, Letty expresses some concern about Dominic's carjacking scheme she participates in every robbery. She is seen at Race Wars where she races and beats a fellow racer. In the end, during a botched highway robbery, she rolls her car and is injured but is saved by Dom and survives.
Fast & Furious
Letty, Dominic and his new crew hijack a truck in the Dominican Republic narrowly escaping. After Dom leaves her she goes to FBI agent Brian O-Connor to clear Dom's name in order for him to return home. Brian consequently puts Letty undercover with Arturo Braga as a driver running drugs over the US-Mexico border. However, after the job is complete she realizes that the leader of the team, Fenix Calderon, intends to murder the drivers: she escapes in her car.
However, she is chased by Calderon who manages to flip her car leaving her injured in the wreckage. As Calderon approaches intending to shoot her the car explodes throwing her into the underbrush and Calderon leaves her for dead. Brian was left to assume that she had died as did Dominic and Mia.
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. However when he determined that she had no memory of her previous life, he decided she would be a good member on his team.
Fast Five
When Dominic discovers Vince has associated himself with Hernan Reyes after attempting to steal the device in the GT40. Dominic accuses Vince of betrayal, but Vince defends himself, and makes a point to say that Dominic's failure to listen to him about Brian O'Conner resulted in the loss of their home, family and the death of Letty.
Luke Hobbs is sitting at his desk at the DSS offices when U.S. Customs agent, Monica Fuentes, presents him with a file on a heist committed in Berlin. Attached to the file is a photograph of Letty suggesting that not only is she alive but she involved in large-scale criminal activity.
Fast & Furious 6
Hobbs approaches Dominic with the news that Letty is alive and asks him for his and his team's help in bringing down the international criminal Letty is working for: Owen Shaw. Dom agrees, only after Brian secures them full pardons for their assistance, though Dom had little interest in Shaw, which is shown during a chase scene in which he allows Shaw to escape in order to chase down Letty. After finally chasing her down Dom gets out of his car to speak to Letty. However, Letty shoots Dom before getting back in her car and taking off appearing to not recognize who he is.
When she arrives back to Shaw's lair, he questions her to see if she remembers Dom at all, to which she says she doesn't. Later, she meets up with Dom's team again, when going to investigate a phone call made by the man who made special vehicles for them. A shoot out ensues, in which her team mate, Ivory, is killed by Gisele. Letty tries to escape through the subways, but is followed by Riley. The two fight each other, and Letty tackles Riley down the stairs, and finally escapes on a subway train. She heads back to Shaw, and tells him that Ivory was killed, but his lack of caring frustrates her. Shaw then comes to her and tells her that he has a soft spot for her because she is a blank page who remembers nothing.
Letty tells him she needs some air and goes out. She is found by Dom and a race. The two race, and Letty, intrigued by Dominic, tells him to follow her. They meet up, and Dom tells her that he knows "everything" about her. He begins explaining the scars she has on her and how she got them. He also gives her the famous cross necklace. She grows emotional and leaves.
Later, Shaw asks her if she could kill Dom when the time comes, and she insist she can and even tells Shaw to keep the necklace. They continue with their plan, and attempt to hit up a convoy holding a chip that is worth billions. They steal a tank, and Shaw begins to run over innocent drivers. Letty is outraged at this and tells him that it was not part of the plan. Brian and Roman secure a car to the tank and use it as an anchor, hitting the car repeatedly to knock it off the bridge.
Shaw, angry, tells Letty to get on top of the tank and remove the cable before the car anchors them. She obeys, and is seen by Dominic who begins to drive faster, knowing that Letty will be killed once the car flips off the bridge. This is also known by Shaw who was using Letty to get to Dom. When the car flips and hits the bridge support, the tank flips and sends Letty soaring through the air. Dom speeds up and crashes his car into the railing of the bridge and catches Letty midair, they both crash into a car windshield, Dom looking at Letty, relieved she is uninjured.
Shaw is captured, and they all go back to the military base. When the guy in charge attempts to arrest Letty too for working with Shaw, Dom steps forward and says, "she's always been one of us". Brian then goes up to her to apologize, feeling that everything is his fault, to which she tells him that no one makes her do something she doesn't want to do.
She then goes to speak to Dom, and asks how he knew the car would break their fall to which he replies, "I didn't." They are interrupted after Hobbs brings Shaw in, who confesses to kidnapping Mia and demands to be released. Hobbs tells Dom that if they do that, they lose their full pardons, to which Dom agrees and Hobbs releases Shaw. He looks back and asks if "Babe" is coming, everyone looks at Letty for an answer, but is shocked when Riley steps forward saying, "Of course".
The team then prepares to save Mia, and Letty tells them that she is going with them. They all ride out, and Brian, Dom and Letty all get on the plane that Shaw is attempting to escape in. Letty then has another physical altercation with Riley, she is on the losing end until Hobbs tosses her a weapon, which she then uses to kill Riley and shoot her out of the plane. She and Hobbs escape, but Dom stays behind to secure the chip.
The plane eventually crashes, however they see Dom drive out of the plane. The team is relieved until the car flips. Letty searches the horizon for any sign of Dom and smile when she sees him walking out of the wreckage. She walks up to him and the two embrace. Holding hands, they walk back to Hobbs who asks what he would like as payment for getting the chip. Dom responds with, "1327", which is revealed to be his old address in the next scene.
The team is getting a BBQ together, and Hobbs arrives with Elena stating that they all are free. Letty thanks Elena for everything, saying she is an amazing woman. Elena tells Letty that Dom is an amazing man, and tells Letty to keep him out of trouble to which Letty laughs and tells her that that will never happen. Dom approaches Letty after they leave and asks if anything feels familiar. Letty tells him, no but that it feels like home. The two are last seen with Letty sitting on his lap as Roman says grace at the lunch table.
Furious 7
Letty and Dom head to Race Wars in Letty's Plymouth Barracuda with Dom intending to help jog Letty's, who is still suffering amnesia, memory. Dom and Letty arrive and are met by fans of theirs from The Fast and the Furious. Dom encourages Letty to enter a race in which she wins and was greeted by supporters of hers. Letty suffered a flashback to the car explosion from Fast & Furious before driving off. Dom catches up to her where she is visiting her grave in the cemetery and she decides to break up with Dom until she can get her memory back.
Letty tracks down a nurse from a hospital in Mexico and remembers being saved by Gisele after the explosion. A nurse recognises her and promises to find her file for her. Letty went over to 1327 to find Dom after Deckard Shaw blew up the house but no avail. Letty is then tracked down by Mr. Nobody and brought to his base of operations. Letty modifies a Dodge Challenger and travels with the rest of the crew to the Caucasus Mountains where they rescue Ramsey from a convoy being transported by Mose Jakande. Letty saves Brian from near-death when the bus goes over a cliff and the gang travel to Abu Dhabi to locate the God's Eye.
In Abu Dhabi, Letty is caught by Kara and the security team and engages in a fight with Kara which causes the tower to be locked down. After falling off a mezzanine, Letty is rescued by Roman before Deckard Shaw can take a shot on her. After returning to L.A. Letty was concerned that she'll never see Dom again but he gives her his cross necklace and tells her he'll be back. Letty receives a call from the hospital and the Nurse reveals that her file was unable to be found because it wasn't under the name "Letty Ortiz" but rather "Letty Toretto". Letty is the last to evade Jakande with Ramsey and eventually her car is destroyed and Dom is caught in a parking garage collapse. Letty reveals that she remembers everything and that they got married to which Dom states "it's about time".
A few weeks later, Letty and the crew gathered on the beach, where they say goodbye to Brian O'Conner, who retired from the crew to focus on his family.
The Fate of the Furious
Letty and Dom are on their long overdue honeymoon in Havana when Dom is coerced into a race by a local debt collector. Dom modifies his cousin's old car and races against the debt collector and wins the race using a trick taught to him by Brian. Letty follows the race on a motorcycle along with Dom's cousin. Letty and Dom celebrate the remaining days in Havana and Letty discusses the possibility of having a baby one day.
Dom and Letty are called by Luke Hobbs to Berlin where they break into a military base in their 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon's and steal an EMP. Letty can sense that Dom is not right but he tells her that he will see her "when it's done". Letty drives off and Dom turns on the crew, stealing the EMP, and delivering it to Cipher. Letty and the team bunker down in a hideout and are eventually tracked down by Mr. Nobody. Cipher and Dom break into Mr. Nobody's Base and Cipher kisses Dom to lessen Letty's trust in Dom.
The gang follow Dom to New York where Letty, in her 1966 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport Sting Ray, and the team chase after Dom who has stolen a Nuclear Football from the Russian Minister of Defence. Letty steals the briefcase but is held hostage in an alleyway by Connor Rhodes. Dom threatens Rhode's life if he hurts Letty and Letty gives them the briefcase and they leave.
The gang then decide to stop Dom and Cipher rather than relying on the Military and follow them to Vladovin where they chase after Dom and break into the submarine base to stop Cipher's attempts from releasing nuclear missiles. When Cipher tries to steal the submarine, Letty and the team race her to a sea lock where they attempt to stop the submarine from escaping.
Dom turns against Cipher after knowing his son is safe and blows up the submarine which Letty and the team save him from by barricading him with their cars. The team return to New York where Dom names his son Brian and they celebrate lunch together.
F9
Letty and Dom live with Little Brian in isolation at a farmhouse in London and when they see an unfamiliar car approaching, they tell Brian to hide as they grab weapons from their gun safe to protect themselves. However it is revealed to be Tej, Roman and Ramsey who deliver news of Mr. Nobody's SOS message and the news that Cipher has been extracted from the plane.
Dom is reluctant to join the team now that he is a father but Letty says she is going anyway and leaves without him. The next morning Dom joins the rest of the team and they land in Montequinto where they scour the wreckage of Mr. Nobody's plane. They discover half of a device called Project Aries and Letty stores it in her Harley-Davidson Sportster Iron before fleeing from a group of military agents who ambush them for being in restricted territory. Letty is knocked off her bike and loses the device which is caught by Jakob Toretto who flees in his car. Letty joins Dom in his 2020 Dodge Charger Hellcat and they chase after Jakob who drives off a cliff and is caught by a plane with a magnet attached to it. Dom drives his car off the cliff and is caught on a rope from the old bridge and the car is thrown to another island and the car is destroyed.
Letty and Dom meet Michael Stasiak on a plane to the Caspian Sea and take refuge in a bunker where Letty calls Mia who arrives. The team then split up and Letty and Mia go to Tokyo to find information about Han. While in Tokyo, they find Han's old garage, deeming it to be a dead end and then find an apartment with a Mexican flag in the window. They access the apartment and are met by Elle and the trio fight a group of rogue agents who are after Elle. When one tries to shoot Elle, Letty tackles him out of the window and is ambushed by the remaining guards who are shot by Han, who is still alive.
Letty, Mia, Han and Elle return to the Caspian Sea bunker and the base is infiltrated by Otto who is attempting to free Jakob. When Dom is thrown down a silo into the sea, Letty dives in to save him and they make the realisation that nothing is stopping Jakob and Otto and that they need to take them down. Letty drives a 1974 Chevrolet Nova SS and uses the magnets in the car to take out Otto's convoy and forcing powerlines to stop police cars from following them. Letty uses the magnets to throw a BMW at Sue and Dom then uses the car to break Jakob's fall after Otto and Cipher betrayed him.
When The Armadillo is destroyed by Dom, Letty pulls up and watches as he lets Jakob escape in his Dodge Charger. Letty returns to Los Angeles with Dom and Little Brian and plays a game with Brian and his toys. The family sit down for a barbecue and Letty asks Little Brian to say grace but Dom asks him to wait as there is an empty seat next to Mia. At that moment, a Nissan Skyline pulls into the driveway as Brian O'Conner arrives to join them.
Fast X
Letty watches Dom teaching Little Brian how to drive a car. She joins the Toretto crew for Thanksgiving where Dom's mother says grace. Roman gets intel from the Agency about encrypted codes in Rome, so he, Ramsey, Han and Tej leave for the mission while Dom and Letty choose to stay home and take car of Little Brian. Later that night, Cipher shows up at Dom and Letty's house covered in blood. Letty sends Little Brian to hide and grabs a shotgun to threaten Cipher if she tries to attack. Cipher explains that she came because her organization was taken over by Dante Reyes, the son of the late Brazilian kingpin Hernan Reyes (whom Dom and his crew robbed in Fast Five), who stole a nuclear satellite and blackmailed Cipher's men into betraying her with Cipher barely escaping alive.
The next morning, Cipher is arrested and sent to Blacksite by the Agency. Dom and Letty meet with Little Nobody, Mr. Nobody's assistant, and they realize the mission in Rome is a trap planted by Dante. They go to Rome to warn their friends, but by then Dante had already tricked them into releasing a giant bomb to destroy the Vatican, framing the Torretto crew for the bombing. Letty chases after Dante on a motorcycle and even saves Little Nobody from being blown up by a bomb Dante planted under his truck; however, she loses Dante and is arrested by the Agency, ending up the same prison as Cipher.
Tess, Mr. Nobody's daughter, visits Letty in her cell and informs her that she was sent by Dom to rescue her, as well as revealing that Dom told her about the scar he gave Letty when they were kids. She then stabs Letty in the shoulder with a knives and convinces her to play along, with Letty pretending to hold Tess hostage so she'll be taken away. She is sent to a recovery medl-lab, only to be pissed that she is sharing the room with Cipher. Cipher rewires the air vents with a knockout gas to incapitate all the prison guards, allowing herself and Letty to escape. Letty attacks Cipher and they get into a huge beatdown, which Letty wins by sending Cipher through a glass window to incapitate her. However, just as Letty is about to escape by herself, she realizes they are in an Artic base in the middle of Antartica. Cipher, having already known this, gives Letty a snow coat so they don't freeze to death.
In the mid-credits, Cipher and Letty have escaped the base and are journeying together across the frozen wastelind. They are suddenly rescued by an arriving submarine piloted by Gisele, who is revealed to have survived her supposed death from Owen Shaw's plane in Fast and Furious 6, much to Letty's shock and disbelief.
Miscellaneous Information
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Height: 165 cm (5'5") Measurements: 34B – 25 – 34 Hair: Dark Brown Age: 18 (the Fast and the Furious), late 30s (Fast & Furious 9) |
Weight: 56 kg 125 lb) Shoe Size: 8 (US), 40 (EU), 6.5 (UK), 250 (J) Eyes: Dark Brown Date of Birth: 7 September 1983 |
Appearances
Movies
- The Fast and the Furious (2001)
- Fast & Furious (2009)
- Fast & Furious 6 (2013)
- Furious 7 (2015)
- The Fate of the Furious (2017)
- F9 (2021)
- Fast X (2023)
Videos & Documentaries
- The Making of 'The Fast and the Furious' (2002)
- Los Bandoleros (2009)
- Fast & Furious: Races and Chases (2009)
- 2 Fast 2 Furious: Fast Females (2009)
- Making the 'Fast' Franchise (2009)
- Fast Five (2011)
- It's All About the Cars (2013)
- Fast & Furious 6: Take Control (2013)
- Hand to Hand Fury (2013)
- Movie Guide (2013, 2 appearances)
- Fast & Furious: Supercharged (2015)
- Furious 7: Snatch and Grab (2015)
- Furious 7: Back to the Starting Line (2015)
- Furious 7: Flying Cars (2015)
- Furious 7: Inside the Fight (2015)
- Furious 7: Race Wars (2015)
- Furious 7: Talking Fast (2015)
- The Cars of Furious 7 (2015)
Games
- Fast & Furious: Crossroads (2020)
Vehicles
(Coming Soon!)
External Links
- Letty on Wikipedia
- Letty Ortiz on the The Fast and the Furious Wiki
- Letty Ortiz on the Inconsistently Admirable Wiki
- Letty on Crossroads
- Letty on Fast Fast And Furious Dot Com
Gallery
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Trivia
- Both she and Owen Shaw were pawns of Cipher and both of them were later redeemed at different times.
- At the end of Fast X, Letty is the only member of Dom's crew to be confirmed alive and in Antarctica with Cipher.
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