Lauren Velez

Luna Lauren Vélez was born on November 2, 1964, and is an American actress and the twin sister of player Lorraine Vélez. Her maximum brilliant roles are as María La Guerta on Showtime's dextral, Detective Nina Moreno on Fox's New York Click to look into! >> Read More... at the quiet, Dr. Gloria Nathan on HBO's jail drama Oz, and Elena on ABC's comedy-drama Ugly Betty The twins have five different sisters and one brother. Vélez's father, a New York City officer, finally offered a residence in Rockaway, Queens, and moved his circle of relatives there. She and her twin sister staged improvised performances and appeared for the family and participated in almost all their high school drama productions, like Fiddler at the Roof.

They went directly to observe acting at the Acting Studio with its founding inventive director James Price, the receiver and private buddy of Sanford Meisner. Lauren at the same time studied Shakespeare with Michael Howard. Vélez landed her 1st acting job in the national touring company of the musical Dreamgirls. She became conjointly an understudy for participant Phylicia Rashad in Stephen Sondheim's into the Woods and finished off-Broadway in productions of several books regarding Nothing. In 1995, Vélez landed her 1st principal TV role as Nina Moreno, a policewoman, in the TV series New York undercover. That year, she conjointly created her movie debut as Lisette Linares in the display I Like It Like That along with Rita Moreno Rita Moreno’s original name is Rosa Dolores Alveri >> Read More... and Jon Seda Jon Seda, aka Jonathan Seda, is an American actor. >> Read More... . She became nominated for the Independent Spirit Award and the Desi Award for Best Lead actress.

The show became nominated for 4 Independent Spirit Awards and gained an NYFCC award. Another TV collection wherein she finished became HBO's prison drama Oz. She at the same time acted in the feature movie hall (1996) with Al Pacino. In 1997, she appeared in Buscando un Sueno (In Search of a Dream), the primary Spanish-language movie sanctioned through SAG. She once more performed police lieutenant MaríaLaGuerta, during a chief helping role on Showtime's series dexter. Vélez won the first-rate Supporting participant award at the 2006 Long Island International Film exhibition for her performance as Roseanne Crystal. she received the Rita Moreno HOLA Award in 2010 for Excellence from the Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors (HOLA)