Vanessa Villegas(I)

Vanessa Villegas grew up in Walnut, California with a beautiful family of Sicilian and Mexican descent. Her parents Jesse and Frances have been married for 37 years and has one sister Melissa. She grew up in all sports and dancing, particularly softball. She played softball since she was five and year around from the time she was ten. She played on various top teams in Southern California, which won her many championships, individual honors, and eventually a full ride to a division 1 college. She attended Bishop Amat High School, which is a well known academic and athletic school in southern California. She won many top honors while attending Bishop Amat, such as, All state, all valley, all league honors, student athlete awards and the MVP award. With many college offers to play softball, she chose Chaminade University in Hawaii, and the following year transferred to San Diego State University on a full ride to join her two previous teammates from high school. While at San Diego State, Vanessa was the president of the athletic association, a member of the sweet sixteen team and conference champion's team, student athlete honors, NCAA Woman of the Year nominee, the recipient of the prestigious Campbell/Cartier award/scholarship. At San Diego State, she met and had the honor of playing with amazing teammates who eventually became her lifetime friends. She received her B.A. in elementary school teaching and eventually went into to teaching and dancing. At SDSU, she was discovered as a salsa dancer, taken in by the renowned salsa team "Salsa Y Fuego", she was trained and went on tour. They performed at various events and Congresso de Salsa in Los Angeles, New York, Puerto Rico, and the Island of Guadalupe. Salsa dancing brought her to Los Angeles to pursue her dream in dance and acting. She moved back to L.A. and immediately got an agent and started training at the top dance schools in Los Angeles. She began booking many national commercials such as Dodge, Arrowhead, Nestle Water, Suzuki, GMC, Pontiac, Buick, Bud Light, and Verizon. She can also be seen as one of the poster girls for Bud light, West Coast Choppers, Icon, Dulcenea Lingerie, and 2007 calendar girl for the West Coast Choppers. She is also in the Jennifer Lopez "get right" video, Prince "21" video and Zyrina Music Video. She began studying at the prestigious Acting Conservatory, The Meisner Center. She had the honor of studying from Sanford Meisner's protégé, Martin Barter. This was one of her most amazing experiences and accomplishments. She just recently graduated from the Center and can be seen in various television spots such as American Family with Edward James Olmos, Entourage with Jeremy Piven, Shark with James Woods, and Dirt with Courtney Cox. She is currently pursuing her film and television career and trying to conquer Hollywood. She recently purchased her first house and has two blue nose pit bulls, Dia the blue Goddess and Adranus Maximus who are the love of her lives. With the support of her wonderful family and friends she is on her way of accomplishing her biggest dream yet. She would like to thank her family and friends on their support during this journey and for helping her become the artist and woman she is today