Paz Vega Biography

Birth Name : Paz Campos Trigo

Date of Birth : 2 January 1976, Seville, Andalucía, Spain

Height : 5' 5¾" (1.67 m)

Occupation : Actress

Paz Campos Trigo (born January 2, 1976), better known as Paz Vega, is a Spanish actress. Vega made her television debut in the Spanish TV series, Menudo es mi padre, which starred pint-sized rumba singer El Fary. After appearing in two other series in 1997 - Mas que amigos and teen drama Compañeros - she went on to grace the silver screen in 1999 in Zapping. The same year she also had a minor role in the David Menkes movie I Will Survive (Sobreviviré) alongside Emma Suárez, Juan Diego Botto and a cameo from Boy George.

Returning to television, Vega appeared on the popular award-winning sitcom, "7 Vidas" (Telecino, 1999- ). The show had a constant turnover in cast, and Vega left after two seasons. The actress made another feature, "Nadie Conoce a Nadie" ("Nobody Knows Anybody", 1999), a psychological thriller directed by Mateo Gil, writer of "Open Your Eyes" (1999). In "Solo Mia" (2001), Vega played Angela, an abused wife who takes matters into her own hands after friends and police fail to help. She was nominated for a Goya-Spain's equivalent of the Oscar-for Best Actress. That same year Vega gained international recognition with her role in "Sex and Lucia" (2001). In this erotic, though sometimes confusing drama, Vega played Lucia, a waitress who flees to the island paradise of her dead lover's dreams, where she meets two others with a connection to her former love. The film made the festival rounds-Sundance, Seattle, Rotterdam, Toronto-and earned Vega a Goya for Best New Actress the same year she was nominated for "Solo Mia"-the first time in Spanish Academy history that an actress was nominated in two different categories for two different roles.