Our Favorite Latino Child Stars

Alexa Vega

Working since: Age 6, on the short-lived Evening Shade.

Breakthrough role: Carmen Vega, the resourceful child spook in Robert Rodriguez’s Spy Kids trilogy.

Now: Next up is From Prada to Nada, a Latina spin on Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, in which she and Camilla Belle play sisters who go from being rich to living in East L.A. with an aunt when their dad dies. It’s very Legally Blonde-slash-Clueless, which considering the success of those films, is a good thing. Could this be the movie that finally puts newly engaged Alexa, 21, on Hollywood’s map?