Alexa Vega Biography
Born: August 27, 1988
Spunky child star Alexa Vega shot to fame in 2001 as one of the young secret agents in the 007 spoof Spy_Kids. Born on August 27, 1988 in Miami, Vega spent her early years living on a nearby Florida farm. When she was four, her family relocated to California, where her mother got a job with a talent agency. Inspired by Vega's precocity, her mother brought her to an audition for Burt_Reynolds' TV series Evening Shade -- she landed the two-year gig on her first try.
Vega worked continuously ever since, landing guest-starring roles on E.R. and Chicago Hope, and appearing in Little_Giants (1994) and Nine_Months (1995). After portraying a young Helen_Hunt in Jan de Bont's Twister (1996), she played Steven_Seagal's daughter in The_Glimmer_Man (1996), Alec_Baldwin's daughter in Ghosts of Mississippi (1996), and Michelle_Pfeiffer's daughter in The Deep End of the Ocean (1999).
Vega returned to series television as Alfred_Molina's daughter in CBS' short-lived sitcom Ladies_Man, before taking center stage in Spy_Kids. Written and directed by Robert_Rodriguez, the film followed two preadolescents who must save their secret-agent parents from the grips of a madman bent on destroying the world. Along with co-star Daryl_Sabara, Vega insisted on doing the majority of her own stunts, instantly becoming a hero to kids everywhere. The movie, which also featured Antonio_Banderas, Carla_Gugino, Alan_Cumming, and Tony_Shalhoub, was a box-office smash. Vega returned a year later for its highly anticipated sequel, Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams (2002), which featured the kids traveling to a lost island in an effort to thwart the evil plans of a mad scientist played by Steve_Buscemi.
After the Spy_Kids series wrapped with 2003's Spy Kids 3-D, Vega focused her efforts on parlaying her newfound stardom into other high-prolife projects. In the Summer of 2004, Vega's first post-Spy_Kids film, Sleepover, debuted in theaters. Aubry Anne D'Arminio, Rovi
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