Christina Vidal

Christina Vidal Mitchell (born November 18, 1981) is an American actress, singer and producer.
==Early Life==
Vidal was born and raised in Whitestone, an area in Queens, New York, the daughter of Manny Vidal, a tax consultant and businessman, and his wife Josie, a secretary, both of Puerto Rican ancestry. 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, and Tanya are also actors and have appeared on TV and in theatre; she also has a brother, Christian.
==Career==
===Acting===
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 its cancellation in the summer of 2002 because of the consensus that Nickelodeon felt that it only appealed to girls.
The next year she played Maddie in the film Freaky Friday, alongside Lindsay Lohan. The 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. Also in 2003 she guest starred in Sabrina, the Teenage Witch as Paris Fate. In 2006, she did an untitled sitcom pilot along with her sisters for ABC (which was executively produced by George Lopez). The show was not 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 cameo appearances in the movies I Think I Love My Wife, Mask of the Ninja, and the internet comedy short "Love Automatically", written by Mylinda Royer and directed by Allison Haislip. Most recently, Vidal played a supporting character in the film Magic Man, which was released in 2009.
===Music===
When Vidal was in the band Gemstone, she recorded songs with herself as well as bandmate Jade Villalon performing vocals. A few of these tracks would surface many years later on albums consisting of demos, rare tracks, and special songs of Villalon's music project, Sweetbox. 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 "Black Suits Comin' (Nod Ya Head)" from the Men in Black II soundtrack. She was a part of Lupe Fiasco's 1st & 15th Entertainment. 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". She also sang the song "Take Me Away" in the movie Freaky Friday.
==Filmography==
===Film===
Year	Title 	Role
1993	Life with Mikey 	Angie Vega
1995	Welcome to the Dollhouse	Cynthia
1998	Brink! 	Gabriella Dellama
2000	Details 	Maggie
2003	Chasing Papi 	Festival Singer
2003	Freaky Friday 	Maddie
2005	The Mosquito 	Tia
2006	See No Evil 	Christine
2007	I Think I Love My Wife 	Candy
2010	Magic Man 	Elena
===Television===
Year 	Title 	Role
1994 	The Cosby Mysteries 	Ramona Suarez
1995 	The Commish 	Julianna Muldoon
1997 	F/X: The Series 	Theresa
1997-1998	Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher	Sophia Del Bono
1999 	Providence 	Street Girl
1999 	Touched by an Angel 	Ilena
2002-2002	Taina 	Taina Maria Morales
2003 	Hotel 	Gisel
2003 	Sabrina, the Teenage Witch 	Fate Paris
2003-2004	10-8: Officers on Duty 	Deputy Gabriela Lopez
2004 	Beck and Call 	
2004 	Second Time Around 	Gabrielle Herrera
2005 	Clubhouse 	Carmen
2006 	Girlfriends 	Samantha Stephens
2007 	ER 	Elena Vega
2008 	Play or Be Played 	
2008 	Mask of the Ninja 	Mercedes
2009 	Monk 	Winona
2009-2010	House 	Sandy
2010 	The Deep End 	Rachel Esposito
2010 	In Plain Sight 	Amber Whitman
2010 	Castle 	Jamie Ruiz
2011 	Things We Do for Love 	
2011 	Fairly Legal 	Sofia Peña
2014 	Stalker 	Christina Richards
2015 	Being Mary Jane 	Lilly
2015 	The Player 	Mrs. Cruz
2015 	Major Crimes 	Carmen Tamayo
2015-2016	Code Black 	Gina Perrello
2016 	Limitless 	Lucy Church
2016 	Blue Bloods 	ADA Marta Avila
2017 	Training Day 	Detective Valeria Chavez
2018 	Sneaky Pete 	Valerie
2019 	Grand Hotel 	Detective Ayala
2020 	United We Fall 	Jo Ryan
==Discography==
===Soundtracks===
*Taina Soundtrack (2002)
*Freaky Friday (Soundtrack) (2003)
*Byou Soundtrack (2006)
==Awards and Nominations==
Year	Award 	Association 	Nominated For 	Result
1994	Best Leading Role in a Motion Picture Comedy - Youth Actress	Young Artist Awards	Life with Mikey	Won
1994	Most Promising New Youth Actress (Special Award) 	Young Artist Awards	Life with Mikey	Won
2002	Outstanding Actress in a Television Series 	ALMA Awards 	Taina 	Nominated
Category:Actresses
Category:American Actresses
Category:Singers
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