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Alexa Vega is best known for playing Spy Kid Carmen Cortez in the Spy Kids movies from the early 2000s. She was born in Miami, but moved to California at a young age and nabbed a role in Twister shortly after.

Alexa Vega Biography

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Alexa Vega was born Alexa Ellesse Vega in Miami, Florida on August, 27, 1988. She is a former child star best known for playing Carmen Cortez in the Spy Kids movies. She was born in Miami, but moved to California at a young age and nabbed a role in Twister shortly after. She continued acting on television, then shot to fame in 2001 with Spy Kids and its subsequent three sequels. She’s appeared consistently in film and on television since then, but nothing has had the same impact of Spy Kids. However, the films’ director Robert Rodriguez has stood by Alexa, and even gave the newly adult (and very buxom) star a plum role in Machete Kills in 2013.

 

Alexa Vega is best known for playing Spy Kid Carmen Cortez in the Spy Kids movies from the early 2000s.

 

Alexa Vega, who is fluent in Spanish, has six siblings — four half, and two full — and her younger sister Makenzie has been starring on the CBS drama The Good Wife since 2009. Alexa is a Christian, and she married film producer Sean Covel in 2010. The marriage lasted less than two years, and in August 2013 she became engaged to actor and singer Carlos Pena, Jr., of Big Time Rush fame. They married in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico on Jan. 4, 2014. She is also close friends with Twilight actress Nikki Reed, and was the maid of honor at Reed’s wedding to Paul McDonald in 2011.

 

In 1996, Vega starred as young Jo Harding in Twister. She guest-starred in numerous television shows and films, including ER (TV series) Follow the Stars Home, Ghost Whisperer, and The Bernie Mac Show. She became known worldwide in 2001 for her role as Carmen Cortez in Spy Kids. The first Spy Kids film was a huge success, and subsequently two sequels, Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams and Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over were filmed. During the shooting of the three films, she performed most of her own stunts. Vega reprised the role in the 2011 sequel, Spy Kids: All the Time in the World.

 

In 2003, she was named one of that year’s hottest teen celebrities in the July 2003 issue Vanity Fair.

 

On August 27, 2015, Vega was announced as one of the celebrities who will compete on the 21st season of Dancing with the Stars. Her husband, Carlos PenaVega was also announced as one of the contestants who will compete against her on the show. She was paired with professional dancer Mark Ballas.

 

She recorded three songs for the soundtracks while playing Carmen Cortez in the Spy Kids films. She released her debut single, “Isle of Dreams”, to coincide with the release of the second film. She also released “Game Over”, for the third film. Another song, “Heart Drive” featuring Bobby Edner, was also recorded for Spy Kids 3. She also has recorded songs for the movie Repo! The Genetic Opera, released in 2008.

 

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