Anna Chlumsky born December 3 1980 in Chicago Illinois is an American actress best known for playing Vada Sultenfuss in the 1991 movie My Girl and the 1994 sequel My Girl 2 Her father Frank Chlumsky is an instructor in the culinary program at Kendall College in Chicago Her surname pronounced khlumskee is CzechSlovak in origin meaning hill Her cousin Vik Foxx is the drummer for The Veronicas Description above from the Wikipedia article Anna Chlumsky licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia