Cristina Valenzuela

Vee was born on July 11, 1987. She is of Tepehuan, Spanish, and Lebanese descent. She grew up in Norwalk, CA, near Los Angeles and attended public schools there. One of her early interests was music, and Cristina participated in the Norwalk All City band while in middle school and high school. But because of her passion for acting and animation specifically, her classmates called her "Sailor Moon girl," and Vee would go on to co-found the first anime club at John Glenn High School.

Cristina studied theatre arts and graduated from California State University at Long Beach in 2007 where she took classes with Professor Hugh O'Gorman, who supported her career goals. Vee has disclosed that she struggled for a period while in college: “Even though I loved studying theater and performing in shows, college was a really hard time for me. Because of depression and panic attacks, there were a couple of years where it was extremely hard for me to go to classes.”