Vega was born in Seville, Andalusia, Spain to a homemaker mother and a retired bullfighter father. She took her stage name from her grandmother. After two years at the stage school and two more years studying journalism, Vega moved to Madrid. After appearing in two other series in 1997 – Mas que amigos and teen drama Compañeros – she went on to grace the silver screen in 1999 in Zapping. The series was billed as a Spanish Friends and went on to become one of the country’s best-loved domestic sitcoms.
