Xenia Vera is an actress, singer and model. A multi-talented performer, Xenia was a finalist on the show “The X Factor” where she competed with the likes of Lauren Mcffee, Adam Lambert and Kelly Clarkson. However, before becoming one of the more popular models in the fashion world, she had a very starchy career as an actress and singer. She had various small roles in movies and television shows before becoming popular in the mainstream in the late 80’s when she began to have very successful careers which saw her featured in some of the best films of the year such as Pretty Woman and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. However, her best performance to that point had been in the movie “Water World”.
As an actor, Xenia Vera has appeared in a number of different types of movies, including some Hollywood blockbusters such as Good Morning, High School Musical and Edward Scissorhands. However, it would be her role as a young Victoria Beckham in the film biography Magic: The Book of Love which cemented her reputation as one of the most successful and versatile actresses of the eighties. In the same decade, she also had a role in a much less well-known movie called Come As You Are and had a memorable turn as a villainous nurse in the equally successful Nurse Jackie. However, aside from these films, Xenia Vera has also been through a series of interesting relationships and has been married to some rather interesting men. For example, in the movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind she shows her husband Dean Martin a rather bizarre and disturbing way of proposing marriage, though he politely declines at first.
When Xenia Vera first began to play around with acting she had no intention of following a traditional career path, however, once her first film came out in the public domain it changed her life. She was so impressed by the film, she decided to use her skills to pursue a career in theatre instead of staying in the acting industry. However, it was not long before she realised that the opportunities available to her outside of acting were very limited. After a failed marriage for the third time, she decided that she wanted to take on a more traditional career and so began working with the casting agency Leo van Eyck and he discovered her talent for both stage and screen. It was then that she began to develop a relationship with Richard Glauberman, who was director of the London Film School and co-writer of the play Everybody Loves Raymond.