Growing up in Norco, actress Eva La Rue spent most weekends roaming the trails and the Santa Ana riverbed on horseback, often coming home with scrapes and bruises. Sometimes she even returned without her horse.
"We'd be gone all day Saturday and Sunday," La Rue said in a phone interview. "We didn't have cell phones. There were plenty of times we came back without our ponies after getting bounced off. We'd come back all banged up and bloodied.
"It was an awesome way to grow up."
La Rue's mother, Marcie La Rue, still lives in Norco in the home Eva grew up in.
During her childhood, Eva gained a love of animals and a strong sense of independence.
These attributes have shaped a life of adventurous travel and a successful acting career.
La Rue attended Riverside Elementary School, then Norco Junior High School and then Norco Senior High School.
Best known for her character Natalia Boa Vista on "CSI: Miami" and her past role, Dr. Maria Santos on "All My Children," La Rue got her start on the Inland beauty pageant circuit.
At 6, she won Little Miss California. During the 1980s, she became Miss American Teenager, senior homecoming queen for Norco High School, Miss County of Riverside and Citrus Queen for the National Orange Show.
La Rue's 8-year-old daughter, Kaya, is following in mom's footsteps and rides horses as well. She's growing up in Los Angeles rather than Horsetown U.S.A. but she's taking lessons and learning.
"I wish we had them in the backyard," La Rue said. "It's different when you can just jump on bareback anytime."
Kaya has different ideas about a career path.
"She doesn't like being on my side of the camera," La Rue said. "She loves going to work with me because they let her call action and shoot. But she likes being behind the scenes."
La Rue recently announced her engagement to Joe Cappuccio during a black-tie gala on the opening night of the Palm Springs International Film Festival. He popped the question the week before during a vacation to Bora Bora.
The wedding's location is still up in the air.
"Every day we talk about a new idea," she said. "We really want to do it in an elephant tent camp in Thailand. We're super intrepid travelers. But it's not really ideal to drag 30 people there. So we're just thinking we'll go there for our honeymoon."
La Rue has about three more months until she and the cast of "CSI: Miami" go on hiatus for the season. When asked about her character, she said she loves her.
"She's far smarter than I," she said, laughing. "I love the show, it's a blast. The cast is awesome. It's really fun to go to work."
Most of the cast is thinking about what projects to take on during the show's hiatus period, but La Rue has other plans.
"I'll be getting married," she said. "So I'll be pretty busy."
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