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Makenzie Jade Vega (born on February 10 1994) is an American actress.

Vega was born in Los Angeles, California to a Colombian father and an American mother. She is the younger sister of Spy Kids star Alexa Vega. Vega currently lives in Los Angeles with her mother Gina Rue, stepfather Eric James, and four siblings.

At the age of six, Vega appeared regularly as the smallest child of Teddie Cochran (Geena Davis) in The Geena Davis Show. In 2000, she was cast as as Annie, the Campbells’ precocious daughter 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 2003, she played Diana Gordan, 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 the forms that the shapeshifter Mystique (comics) took, as an unsuccessful ploy to fool the guards into letting her go. Vega's next role will be in the romantic comedy In the Land of Women.

Filmography

• In the Land of Women, 2007 (completed), as Paige Hardwicke
• X-Men: The Last Stand, 2006, as Prison Truck Little Girl
• Just My Luck, 2006, as Caty
• Chestnut, Hero of Central Park, 2006, as Sal
• Sin City, 2005, as young Nancy
• Saw, 2004, as Diana Gordon
• Made, 2001, as Chloe
• The Geena Davis Show, 2000, as Eliza Ryan
• The Family Man, 2000, as Annie Campbell
• Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: The Movie (Revolutions), 1999, as Maria

References

Footnotes

1. Vega's mother is not of Italian descent, despite incorrect reports to the contrary in several unreputable sources. In a question regarding her ancestry, Vega's sister, Alexa Vega, replied on her website's message board: "my fathers side is columbian (bogota)... and i dont' know why they said my mom was italian. lol... Shes 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", at "Forever Alexa". RE: Questions for Miss Alexa Vega. Retrieved August 20. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Unknown parameter |accessyear= ignored (|access-date= suggested) (help)
2. "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."

Web sites

• Makenzie Vega Online
• Makenzie Vega at IMDb

• 1994 births
• American child actors
• American film actors
• American television actors
• Living child actors
• Living people
• People from Los Angeles