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On August 27, 1988, a baby girl was born to Gina Vega. Little did Gina know
that her little girl would be known to many as secret agent Carmen Cortez.
Alexa grew up on a farm in Florida for a while, but her family moved to
California and Gina got a job with a talent agency. The mother decided to
take the four-year-old to an audition for the Burt Reynold's TV series "Evening
Shade". On her first try, Alexa got the role. It was the beginning of a very
successful career.
Alexa landed other small roles 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 the Mississippi". Just before she
got involved in the movie that turned her career around, Alexa was acting in
"Follow the Stars Home". Then she went in to audition for a Robert Rodriguez
movie.
She almost didn't land the role. She was busy, probably with "Follow the
Stars Home", and all the other girls trying out were 8, while she was 10.
But that didn't keep Rodriguez from spotting her talent. She was cast as
Carmen Cortez, a secret agent, in the 007 spoof "Spy Kids".
The movie was great. Tons of kids watched the movie and wanted to be just
like "Carmen and Juni". Alexa met many people on the set of Spy Kids,
including Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino, Alan Cumming, Tony Shalhoub, and
George Clooney, who made a cameo appearance as "Devlin". The first film was
followed by two more: "Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams", and "Spy Kids
3-D: Game Over". Alexa met more stars like Haley Joel Osment's little sister
Emily, Matt O'Leary, and Elijah Wood. She also prooved heroic to kids
everywhere by doing the majority of her stuntwork, the more dangerous stuff
done by Katie Boggs, who also became her best friend. She even got a start
on a music career with songs "Isle of Dreams" and "Game Over". She got her
first kiss on the set of Spy Kids 2.
"I got my first kiss while we were filming Spy Kids 2. He was one of the
stunt doubles and a year older than me. We started out as great friends and
then realized we had a crush on each other. It was just a little peck, but
it was wonderful. I had such butterflies in my stomach."
Alexa "cried like a baby" the last day of shooting Spy Kids 3-D. She was
going to miss all of her friends she'd made in the last four years. They
felt like family to her!
But it wasn't the end of this spy girl's career. She was on to new things,
such as a film of her own called "Sleepover", where she would get her first
onscreen kiss...
The film didn't do too well in the box office, unfortunately. In an
interview, Vega said that it was "bye-bye" to teen movies. Her next two
films are entitled "States Evidence" and "Walkout". |
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