Paz Vega

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Birth Name: María Paz Campos Trigo

Age: 50, born 2 January 1976

Country of origin: Spain

Height: 5' 8"

Relationship Status: Married

Partner: Orson Salazar

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Description: Paz Vega is a Spanish actress and model. Vega was born on January 2, 1976 in Seville, Spain to a homemaker mother and a retired bullfighter father. She has described her family as "traditional" and Catholic. She took her stage name from her grandmother. She decided to become an actress after attending a performance of Federico García Lorca's La casa de Bernarda Alba at the age of 15. After completing compulsory education at 16, she was accepted at the prestigious Centro Andaluz de Teatro stage school. After two years at the stage school and two more years studying journalism, Vega moved to Madrid. Vega began her c Paz Vega is a Spanish actress and model. Vega was born on January 2, 1976 in Seville, Spain to a homemaker mother and a retired bullfighter father. She has described her family as "traditional" and Catholic. She took her stage name from her grandmother. She decided to become an actress after attending a performance of Federico García Lorca's La casa de Bernarda Alba at the age of 15. After completing compulsory education at 16, she was accepted at the prestigious Centro Andaluz de Teatro stage school. After two years at the stage school and two more years studying journalism, Vega moved to Madrid.

Vega began her career with two highly successful television series: Companion and 7 Lives. Her first break in cinema came from director Pedro Olean in Beyond the Garden and she began to make a name for herself after her eye-catching performance in Mateo Gil's Nobody Knows Anybody. But it was Julio Medem's Sex and Lucia that marked a decisive step in her career and won her immediate recognition from her peers in the form of a Goya Award (Spain's equivalent of the Oscar) for Best New Actress. That same year, she was also nominated as Best Actress for her gripping portrayal of a battered wife in the film Mine Alone, which marked the first time in the history of the Spanish Academy that an actress was nominated in two different categories for two different roles.

In 2002, she went on to star in Talk to Her by Oscar-winning director Pedro Almodovar and The Other Side of the Bed by Emilio Martinez-Lazaro. The latter was the year's highest grossing film in Spain and a sequel is currently in the works. She appeared in James L. Brooks film Spanglish opposite Adam Sandler. In 2006, she co-starred with Morgan Freeman in the independent film 10 Items or Less. In 2008, she co-starred with Gabriel Macht, Samuel L. Jackson, and Scarlett Johansson in The Spirit. In 2011, Vega had a role in Michele Placido's film Vallanzasca –The Angels of Evil.

Vega also works as a model. she is signed to 1/One Management in New York City. On May 2011, Vega replaced Penélope Cruz as the face for L'Oreal Spain. ... (more)