Birth Name: Amelia Vega Polanco
Place of Birth: Santiago de los Treinta Caballeros
Date of Birth: November 7, 1984
Ethnicity: Dominican, Cuban (Spanish, distant English, possibly other)
Amelia Vega is a Dominican actress, singer, model, and beauty queen. She was the first Dominican woman to become Miss Universe, in 2003.
Amelia is the daughter of Patricia Victoria Polanco Álvarez and Otto Miguel Vega Rasuk. She is married to basketball player Al Horford.
Her ancestor, José Nicolás Vega Pichardo, was a Cuban immigrant who arrived in the Dominican Republic in the 1860s. Jose’s ancestry can be traced back to the English king William the Conqueror, and the Castilian king Alfonso X.
Amelia’s paternal grandfather was Santo Domingo Miguel Ángel Vega Acevedo.
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