Christina Vidal Mitchell

Actor · born 18 November 1981 · Whitestone, Queens, New York, USA

Christina Vidal Mitchell (born Christina Mari Vidal, November 18, 1981, in Whitestone, Queens, New York City) is an American actress, singer, and producer of Puerto Rican descent, the youngest child of Josephine and Manuel Vidal. She began acting by chance when her junior high school teacher handed her a flyer for an open audition in Life with Mikey (1993, with Michael J. Fox), where she played Angie Vega and became the first Puerto Rican child actress to play a lead in an American film. By age 16 she moved to Los Angeles to pursue her career, and she is best known for starring as Taina Maria Morales in the Nickelodeon sitcom Taina (2001–2002, 26 episodes). She is married to Marcus Mitchell (since September 25, 2016) and they have two children. Her most notable film credits include Gabriella in Brink! (1998), Maddie in Freaky Friday (2003, with Lindsay Lohan), Christine in See No Evil (2006) and See No Evil 2 (2014), and Sgt. Denise Wade in The Guilty (2021). On television she is best known as Detective Valeria Chavez in Training Day (2017, CBS, with Bill Paxton), Gina Perrello in Code Black (2015–2016), Jo Rodriguez in United We Fall (2020, ABC, 8 episodes), Mac Wilson in The Terminal List (2022, Amazon, 5 episodes, with Chris Pratt), Hannah in The Shrink Next Door (2021, Apple TV+, with Will Ferrell), Valerie in Sneaky Pete (2015, Amazon, 4 episodes), Detective Ayala in Grand Hotel (2019, ABC, 4 episodes), and Drea in Primo (2023, 8 episodes). More recently she reprised her role as Maddie in Freakier Friday (2025).

Where to start: Welcome to the Dollhouse (1996).