Paz Vega

Birth Date: January 2, 1976

Place of Birth: Sevilla (Spain).

Spouse: Orson Salazar. The couple lives together in Madrid.

Trivia: Vega didn't speak English when James L. Brooks cast her in the role of Flor Moreno in "Spanglish." The Spanish actress not only had to study the English for the film, she needed a language coach in order to achieve a convincing Mexican accent.

Biography: Already a superster in her native Spain, Paz Vegas attracted international attention with her vulnerable but extraodinarily sexy performance in Julio Medem's "Sex And Lucia" (2001). Pedro Almodavar went on to cast Vega in the award winning "Talk To Her." Only now, American audiences are discovering the appealing acress with her terrific performance as the Mexican housekeeper in James L. Brook's "Spanglish."

Paz was sixteen when she took her first role in the television series "Más que amigos." In 1999, she got her first major movie role in "Zapping," in which she played a hot sex-loving vixen who snagged another woman's husband. That same year, she also had a minor part in "Sobrevivire" (I Will Survive), Mateo Gil "Nobody Knows Anybody," and returned to television with the career-making role of Laura in the popular series, "7 vidas."

More roles in film followed. She starred in Mateo Gil "Nobody Knows Anybody," and the Sundance produced sex romp "The Other Side of the Bed."