It’s a happy birthday to Paz Vega, who turns 32 today and looks quite fetching sprawled out across that couch.
She’s best known Stateside for her role as Flor Moreno in James Brooks’ Spanglish, but Vega won a deserved Best Actress Goya Award for her turn in Julio Medem’s erotically charged Sex and Lucia, and was also quite good in Pedro Almodovar’s Talk to Her, Vicente Aranda’s Carmen and Brad Silberling’s 10 Items or Less, opposite Morgan Freeman.
Vega must make a nice initial impression, too; forthcoming, she has a trio of roles for first-time filmmakers. Most notable is a turn as Plaster of Paris in Sin City creator Frank Miller’s planned 2009 solo directorial debut, The Spirit; also on tap are roles in Jada Pinkett Smith’s feature directorial debut, The Human Contract, and opposite Tim Allen, Jenna Elfman and Elisha Cuthbert in Howard Michael Gould’s comedy The Six Wives of Henry Lefay. Hell, if the Spanish invasion looks this good, I’d say open borders are a good thing, Tom Tancredo be damned…