Minka Dumont Kelly, portrays Lyla Garrity in the NBC television drama Friday Night Lights was born on June 24, 1980. The american actress is the only child of the late Maureen Kelly, a former Vegas showgirl and an Aerosmith guitarist Rick Dufay.He was on tour with the band a lot while Minka was growing up in Albuquerque, New Mexico. No stranger to the camera lens, Kelly has had a successful career in modeling and television commercials.

She has appeared in commercials for Old Navy and Johnson & Johnson and modeled for a Madge Cosmetics ad campaign. and As Kelly was saying to us, her childhood was "pretty rough". She resented Dufay, as he had she had been left by her and her mother. Yet, at the age of seventeen, she decided to try and reconcile by inviting him out to New Mexico.She is of Irish and French descent.

Kelly was been dated by Alex Galvin in 2003 and Dylan Brazil in 2005,and had a relationship with actor Chris Evans. She dated musician John Mayer from September 2007 to January 2008.Recently, as of January 2010, Kelly is engaged to marry New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter. The wedding is set for November 5, 2010.

Minka Kelly mentioned in one of her article that sexual ravaging" is a very common female fantasy. Passionate and forceful but rarely violent and painful, the "ravagings" in our head differ dramatically because we're always in control.She also tells their that on the opposite end of the spectrum are fantasies where she force him to have sex with her, often in typically male-dominated situations like a courtroom or a business meeting. Being the aggressor or having physical power over him appeals because in real life it's usually the opposite.