Minka Kelly - Famous Daughter of Super Guitarist

Minka Dumont Kelly (born June 24, 1980) is an American actress. She starred in the NBCseries Friday Night Lights as Lyla Garrity from 2006 to 2009.

Kelly was born in Los Angeles. She is the only child of former Aerosmith guitarist Rick Dufay and Maureen Kelly, an exotic dancer and single mother who often moved with her daughter to different communities, before settling in Albuquerque, New Mexico, by the time Minka was in junior high school. She is of Irish and French descent.

While on a test shoot for a modeling agency, she was approached by a former Playboy Playmate interested in managing her, and who placed Kelly as a receptionist at a surgeon's office who would provide Kelly breast augmentation in exchange for hours worked.

In 2010, ABC announced that Kelly would join the cast of the upcoming remake of the television series Charlie's Angels. That same year, Kelly also was named "Sexiest Woman Alive" in the annual Esquire magazine feature. She accepted a role in the Off Broadway play Love, Loss, and What I Wore for an April 27 through May 29, 2011 run with Conchata Ferrell, AnnaLynne McCord, Anne Meara, and B. Smith.

Kelly dated Dylan Brazil in 2005, and had relationships with actors Chris Evans and Donald Faison. She dated musician John Mayer from September 2007 to January 2008. As of May 2008, she is dating baseball player Derek Jeter

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