Alexa Vega - biography, creativity, filmography, musicals, height, weight, personal life and interesting facts

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Actress Alexa Vega is getting more and more popular. This article provides the most complete information about this young lady.

Childhood and family

In the US state of Florida, in the city of Miami, on July 27, 1988, a girl was born. She was given the name Alexa Vega. Small, swarthy, with sparkling brown eyes, she was very temperamental and cheerful from childhood thanks to her father's Colombian blood, and very pretty thanks to her mother's model appearance.

Alexa is the eldest daughter in the family. She has younger sisters (one of them, Mackenzie, also an actress, starred in the films "Saw" and "Sin City") and brother Cruz.

In 1992, the family moved to California, where Alexa's mother found work in a travel agency.

In California, her father and mother divorced, and only Alexa moved to a new family with her stepfather Eric James. Here she lived in prosperity and harmony with her half-brother Jet and two half-sisters - Margo and Graylin.

Vega communicates with her father and her sisters and brother very often, they love each other and have a great relationship.

Creativity: talented actress and singer

Started quite earlyacting biography. Alexa Vega got into films at the age of two. When her mother brought her to audition, the baby was immediately entrusted with the role of Emily Newton in the television series Evening Shadow. But the debut of the young actress is called the role in the sports film "Little Giants" (1994).

Often, the actress received only episodic roles, played in extras. But, being a very cheerful person, she never got hung up on this, she took on any job with pleasure. A breakthrough was the film trilogy by R. Rodriguez "Spy Kids" (2001), where she played Carmen Cortez. After this successful work, proposals fell like a cornucopia. For the film "Spy Kids" Alexa recorded a couple of songs. The songs were approved, which gave the actress a reason to take up singing professionally. The girl has a very beautiful voice, she easily takes complex notes.

In 2007, Alexa Vega played on the famous Broadway in the musical "Hairspray" a certain Penny Pingleton. The following year, Alexa played the lead role and sang the vocal part of Shiloh's character in the musical Genetic Opera. In 2013 - again a role in the musical "Devil's Carnival". Currently, the actress is actively filming, and soon new films with Alexa Vega will be released on the screens. She also does not leave music and writes new soundtracks.

Alexa Vega. Filmography of the actress

First steps, small roles:

• 1990 - TV series "Evening Shadow";
• 1994 - Chicago Hope series,sports family comedy "Little Giants", TV series "Ambulance";
• 1995 - Comedy "9 Months", Action Drama "Lost";
• 1996 - Action-drama "Flickering", drama "Ghosts of Mississippi", disaster film "Twister", drama "All This", melodrama "Promise to Caroline", drama thriller "Shattered Mind";
• 1998 - drama "Own and Possess", adventure film "Dennis the Tormentor 2", parody of the horror film "Scream" "Very scary movie";
• 1999 - "At the Bottom of the Ocean" drama, sci-fi action movie "Network Patrol".

Serious roles:

• 2001 - family melodrama "The Stars Will Lead the Way", children's action adventure "Spy Kids", comedy "The Bernie Mac Show";
• 2002 - "Spy Kids 2. Island of Lost Hopes";
• 2003 - "Spy Kids 3D Game Over";
• 2004 - comedy "Sleepless Night";
• 2005 - drama "Rare Woman";
• 2006 - drama "Strike", drama "Witness for the Prosecution";
• 2007 - comedy "Stun"; hairspray musical;
• 2008 - film musical "Genetic Opera";
• 2009 - "Broken Hill" drama;
• 2010 - scoring of the cartoon "Clockwork Girl", thriller "Mother's Day", drama"Cafe";
• 2011 - melodramatic comedy "Prada and Feelings", "Spy Kids-4. Armageddon", melodrama "Summer Song";
• 2012 - musical "Devil's Carnival", thriller "Mine",
• 2013 - comedy action adventure "Machete Kills".

The critics recognize "Spy Kids", "Tornado", "At the Bottom of the Ocean", "Genetic Opera" as the best films. The best series with her participation are called "ER" and "Ghosts of Mississippi".

Today, the actress Alexa Vega is already quite popular and recognizable. Her filmography is replenished with new tapes. In 2014, two films with her participation will be released - "People of the Future" and "The Remaining".

On a personal front

In October 2010, at the age of 22, Alex Vega was asked to marry a 34-year-old producer, American Sean Covel. For his high growth - 1 meter 93 cm - and thinness, the girl called him a lanky white guy. At the wedding, the planted father was director Robert Rodriguez.

The actress and producer lived together for only 2 years and divorced in July 2012. The reason - Alexa Vega met the singer Carlos Peno. He, a young (born in 1989), passionate and cheerful Hispanic, easily recaptured Sean's wife.

Outwardly, Alexa and Carlos are very suitable for each other. The height of the actress is 155 cm, she weighs 48 kg, Peno, with a height of 168 cm, weighs 65 kg; both - swarthy, pretty and groovy. In the photo, young people smile from ear to ear or make faces.

Many were skeptical about their impetuous romance: they met in 2012, and in September 2013 they were already engaged. But on January 4, 2014, in the Mexican city of Puerto Vallarta, in the picturesque villa "Grand Velas", the wedding of Alexa and Carlos took place.

The bride wore a beautiful dress by fashion designer Eduardo Lucero. In total, the celebration was attended by 18 guests - the closest ones, as well as 9 bridesmaids and 9 friends from the groom. The newlyweds combined their last names. Now they are PenoVega. Sean Covel also congratulated his ex-wife. He wished the young people happiness and beautiful children.

The wedding was detailed in US Weekly.

Interesting facts

• Christian actress, good gymnast, fluent in Spanish.
• Hobby - river fishing and reading.
• In the Spy Kids trilogy, she performed all the stunts herself. On the set of this film, the young actress had her first kiss.
• In 2003, the American magazine "Vanity Fair" named Alexa the sexiest in her age category.