Sunday, August 17, 2008

Alexa Vega




Alexa Vega
Birth Name:
Alexa Ellesse Vega
Category: actresses
Birth place: Miami, Florida, USA
Birth day: 27 August 1988
Age: 20
Nationality: American
Height: 5' 5
Claim to fame: secret agent Carmen Cortez of 'Spy Kids'


Born on 27 August 1988 in Miami, Vega spent her early years living on a farm near Florida. Alexa grew up on a farm in Florida for a while, as four of her family to California, where her mother got a job with a talent agency. Her mother decided the four-year-old to an audition for the Burt Reynold's TV series "Evening Shade". On their first attempt, Alexa got the role. It was the beginning of a very successful career. Alexa landed other small role in ER "and" Ladies Man.

Her film credits include a role as Priscilla O'Shea in "Little Giants", Gina in "Dennis The Menace Strikes Again", young Helen Hunt in "Twister" and roles in "Nine months", "The Glimmer Man", and "Ghosts of Mississippi". Shortly before she got in the film that her career around, Alexa was in "Follow the Stars Home". Then she went to an audition for Robert Rodriguez film. You almost do not land the role. Vega series back on television as Alfred Molina's daughter in CBS 'short-lived sitcom Ladies Man, before taking center stage in Spy Kids.

All the other girls trying out for a role in Spy Kids, 8, while it was 10. But that's not keep Rodriguez from spotting their talent. She was cast as Carmen Cortez, a secret agent, in the 007 spoof "Spy Kids. Together with co-star Daryl Sabara, Vega to make the majority of their own stunts, immediately to a hero to children everywhere. The film, including Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino, Alan Cumming, Tony Shalhoub, was a box office smash success. Vega returned a year later for its highly anticipated successor, Spy Kids 2: The Iceland of Lost Dreams (2002), the functions of the children on trips to a lost island in an attempt to thwart the evil plans of a mad scientist played by Steve Buscemi . In the summer of 2004, Vega's first post-Spy Kids film, was Sleepover.



Trivia
  • Sister of Makenzie Vega.
  • Second cousin of MayaRae Vega.
  • She enjoys freshwater fishing.
  • She can speak Spanish fluently.
  • She is half-Colombian and half-Italian.
  • She is an experienced gymnast
  • At 15, placed fourth in the hottest female teen stars in February 2004.
  • Spy Kids director, Robert Rodriguez, buys her a new car on her 16th Birthday. She wants a Range Rover, so that they can travel around her four sisters and a surfboard on top.
  • Her favorite animal is hamster.
  • Her fovorite TV Show is Friends


Filmography

2008 Repo! The Genetic Opera

2007 Remember the Daze
2006 Walkout
2004 Sleepover

2003 Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
2002 Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams
2001 Spy Kids
1999 The Deep End of the Ocean
1998 Dennis the Menace Strikes Again
1996 Ghosts of Mississippi
1996 The Glimmer Man
1996 Twister
1995 Nine Months


Awards


Black Reel (2007)
Newtork/Cable- Best Actress
For: Walkout (2006) (TV)
Won

Young Artist Award (2003)
Category : Best Performance in a Feature Film - Leading Young Actress
For : Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams
Won

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