Makenzie Vega
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| Born | Makenzie Jade Vega February 10, 1994 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Years active | 1999 - present |
Makenzie Jade Vega (born February 10, 1994) is an American actress.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Personal life
Vega was born in Los Angeles, California to a Colombian father and an American mother.[1] She is the younger sister of Spy Kids star Alexa Vega. Vega currently lives in Los Angeles with her mother Gina Rue (a model),[2] stepfather Eric James, and four siblings.
[edit] Career
At the age of five, Vega appeared regularly as the smallest child of Teddie Cochran (Geena Davis) in The Geena Davis Show. In 2000, she was cast as Annie, the Campbells’ precocious daughter[3] in The Family Man. The following year, Vega was seen again playing Chloe in Made which starred Vince Vaughn, Jon Favreau and Famke Janssen. In 2004, she played Diana Gordon, daughter of Dr. Lawrence Gordon (Cary Elwes) and Alison Gordon (Monica Potter) in the horror film Saw. Her next movie was Sin City, in which she played young Nancy Callahan, alongside Bruce Willis. Vega recently appeared in Just My Luck, starring Lindsay Lohan, and also in the summer blockbuster X-Men: The Last Stand as the Prison Truck Little Girl, where she was one of the forms that the shapeshifter Mystique took, as an unsuccessful ploy to fool the guards into letting her go. Vega's most recent role was in the romantic comedy In the Land of Women.
[edit] Filmography
| Year | Film | Role |
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| 1999 | Dr. Quinn: Revolutions | Maria |
| 2000 | The Family Man | Annie Campbell |
| 2000- 2001 |
The Geena Davis Show | Eliza Ryan |
| 2001 | Made | Chloe |
| 2004 | Saw | Diana Gordon |
| Chestnut: Hero of Central Park | Sal | |
| 2005 | Sin City | Young Nancy Callahan |
| 2006 | Just My Luck | Katy Hardin |
| X-Men: The Last Stand | Prison Truck Little Girl | |
| 2006 | Justice | Mary Nicks |
| 2007 | In the Land of Women | Paige Hardwicke |
[edit] References
- ^ Alexa Vega (2005-05-11). Alexa Forever Forums. RE: Questions for Miss Alexa Vega. Retrieved on 2006-08-20. “My father's side is Columbian (bogota)... and I don't know why they said my mom was Italian. She's not. My family and I were trying to figure out what my mom was, but we can only go back to 5 generations and they were all from Florida. haha. so .. Floridian? ahhah... my moms last name is French though”
- ^ Alexa Vega Biography (1988-)
- ^ "Annie's not much of a violin player, but she tries real hard. She's a little precocious, but that's only because she says what's on her mind." [1]
