Lavrenti Lopes

Lavrenti Lopes is an Indian actor-cum-model in Hollywood. He was born on 29 March 1986 in a Goan family based in Mumbai. He completed his schooling at Fatima High School in Vidhyavihar, Mumbai. Since childhood, he was crazy about the film industry, be it Bollywood or Hollywood, and was hell-bent on becoming an actor. In 2007, due to a weak Indian educational structure for his chosen field, he flew to New York Click to look into! >> Read More... to join the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. This education system, however, turned out to be costly for him, but he claims to have grown through this struggle. Lavrenti’s initial work has been in commercials, print ads, and theater. He was recognized for his work in the Tata True Roots Calling Card commercial which rose to popularity all over the internet.

His next work was for print advertisements as in Microsoft, and Flair Pens, to name a few. He has performed on stage twice- first as Raj in Savianna Stanescu’s ‘E-Dating’ and second as Johannes in ‘Barely Legal.’ In 2011, he debuted in Hollywood in the role of Faisal in the Venezuelan film titled ‘SubHysteria.’ The year 2012 gifted him work in four films and three small screen roles. The four films include- ‘Afghan Hound,’ a film set in the war zone of Afghanistan, ‘Desperate Endeavours,’ Salim Khassa’s adaptation of Jayant Patel’s ‘Seeking Home,’ ‘Love, Lies and Seeta,’ Chandra Pemmaraju’s Indian-American rom-com and finally, ‘Life! Camera Action,’ a quasi-autobiographical film directed by Rohit Gupta.

He played minor roles in ‘Wedding Band’ (a comedy-drama which ran on TBS), ‘Review’ (Andy Daly portrays Forrest MacNeil reviewing real life experiences on Comedy Central), and ‘Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23’ (an American sitcom starring Krysten Ritter and Dreama Walker). In 2013, Lavrenti also played a minor role in the latest hit television series-‘ New Girl New Girl was an American English television series >> Read More... ’- starring Zooey Deschanel A person possessing multi-talents of being an actr >> Read More... in the lead. Lavrenti, in his interviews, has stated that he wanted to pursue a career in Bollywood but due to a lot of nepotism in the Indian film industry, he couldn’t make it. He quotes Aamir Khan Aamir Khan or Mohammed Aamir Hussain Khan is Bolly >> Read More... , Naseeruddin Shah Naseeruddin Shah is an experimental actor and asso >> Read More... , and Shabana Azmi Shabana Azmi is a film actress of Indian origin an >> Read More... to be his inspiration. He currently lives in L.A. and awaits the release of his upcoming film, ‘The Mad Ones,’ in which he is cast in one of the lead roles.