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Christina Vidal Profile |
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Birth Date: November 18, 1981
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Birth Place: Whitestone, Queens, New York, USA
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Birth Name: Christina Abbi Vidal
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Height: 5'2"
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Biography |
Christina Vidal is an American
film and television actress and singer. She is best known
for her role in the Nickelodeon sitcom Taina in which she
played the title character.
Vidal was born in Whitestone, an area in Queens, New York,
the daughter of Puerto Rican[1] parents Anne, a secretary,
and Manuel Vidal, Jr. a business and tax consultant. She
attended the Performing Arts School Of New York. When she
was 17 she joined a girl group called Gemstone (along with
Jade Villalon and Crystal Grant). Vidal later moved to
Orlando, Florida, to proceed with the filming of Taina. Her
sisters Lisa Vidal and Tanya Vidal are also actors and have
appeared on TV and in theatre; she also has a brother,
Christian.
Vidal's acting career started when one of her teachers told
her there was an audition for the movie Life with Mikey
(1993), starring Michael J. Fox. She auditioned and got the
part of "Angie Vega", and was therefore the first Puerto
Rican child actress to play a lead in an American film.
Since then, Vidal has appeared in numerous films and
television series, with her most notable role being Taina
Maria Morales in the Nickelodeon show Taina. The sitcom was
at first successful and ran for two seasons until it was
cancelled in the summer of 2002.
The next year she starred in the film Freaky Friday
alongside Lindsay Lohan. That same year, she starred in the
short lived ABC action TV series about Police Officers
called 10-8: Officers on Duty until she suddenly left after
two months on the show. In 2006, she did an untitled sitcom
pilot along with her sisters for ABC (which was executively
produced by George Lopez). The show wasn't picked up but
later that year she starred in the film See No Evil, along
with having a brief stint on the hit sitcom Girlfriends. In
recent times, she made a cameo appearance in the movie I
Think I Love My Wife and signed on to do a pilot for Barry
Sonnenfeld and NBC called All Rise (originally titled Play
or Be Played). The pilot wasn't picked up, but Vidal's now
doing a new TV movie, Mask of the Ninja, premiering this
September on the Spike TV network.
Christina has always been known for her musical ability. In
2002, she was briefly signed to MCA Records and in that time
she was supposed to release her first single "Tropical" and
her solo debut album "White" in the summer of 2002, but
never did. That same year she provided guest vocals on the
remix of Will Smith's summer hit "Nod Ya Head". She has been
working hard to release an album sometime in 2008. She is
also a part of Lupe Fiasco's 1st & 15th Entertainment as
seen on their official Myspace page. Rumor has it she
appears in Lupe Fiasco's "Superstar" music video as the
celebrity next to him in the limo. She also recorded a track
for the work out cd called Byou from Sabrina Bryan of the
Cheetah Girls. The song she recorded was "Anything is
possible." |
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Other
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Younger sister of Lisa Vidal
Was signed to MCA records; album due out in fall 2002 [2002]
Is on Will Smith's new album on the song "Nod Ya Head" (The
Remix)
Appears and sings in the video for "Nod 'Ya Head (Remix)"
from the Men In Black 2 soundtrack, with Will Smith and
Tra-knox.
Was the first Puerto Rican/American child actress to have a
leading role in an American motion picture. (Life With
Mikey)
Was signed on to co-star in the pilot production of "Hotel"
on UPN for fall 2003.
Will star in the upcoming ABC series "10-8" premiering
September 2003.
Aunt of Scott Jarred Cohen
Sister of Tanya Vidal |
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since June 22, 2008