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| name = Lauren Vélez | image = Lauren Vélez.jpg | imagesize = | caption = Vélez at 2013 Comic-Con International | birth_name = Luna Lauren Vélez | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1964|11|2}}[1] | birth_place = Brooklyn, New York, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Actress | years_active = 1994–present | salary = | networth = | spouse = | website = | footnotes = | relatives = Lorraine Vélez (twin sister) | children = }}Luna Lauren Vélez (born November 2, 1964) is an American actress and the twin sister of actress Lorraine Vélez. Her most notable roles are as María LaGuerta on Showtime's Dexter, Detective Nina Moreno on Fox's New York Undercover, Dr. Gloria Nathan on HBO's prison drama Oz, and Elena on ABC's comedy-drama Ugly Betty.[2] Early life and educationLauren's parents moved from Puerto Rico in the early 1950s and lived in Brooklyn, a borough of New York City, where she and her twin sister, Loraine Vélez, were born. The twins have five other sisters and one brother. Lauren's father, a New York City Police Department officer, eventually bought a house in Far Rockaway, Queens, and moved the family there. The twins enjoyed setting up improvised plays and acting for the family, and they participated in nearly all their high school productions, such as, Fiddler on the Roof. After graduating from high school, they each received scholarships to attend the Alvin Ailey Dance School. They both went on to study acting at the Acting Studio with its founding artistic director James Price, the protégé and personal friend of Sanford Meisner. In addition, Lauren studied Shakespeare with Michael Howard.[3] CareerVélez landed her first job performing in the national touring company of the musical Dreamgirls. Vélez also played understudy for actress Phylicia Rashad in Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods, and she performed Off-Broadway in the productions of Much Ado About Nothing. In 1995, Vélez landed her first major television role. She was cast as Nina Moreno, a policewoman in the TV series New York Undercover.[4] That same year, she also made her film debut as Lisette Linares in the movie I Like It Like That, alongside Rita Moreno and Jon Seda.[5] She was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award and The Desi Award for Best Lead Actress. The movie was nominated for four Independent Spirit Awards and won an NYFCCA award. Another TV series in which she performed was HBO's jail drama, Oz. She also acted in the feature film City Hall (1996), with Al Pacino. In 1997, Vélez starred in Buscando un Sueño (English: In Search of a Dream), the first Spanish language film sanctioned by SAG. Vélez again played a police lieutenant, in a supporting role on Showtime's series Dexter.[6] On June 24, 2006, she won the Best Supporting Actress award at the 2006 Long Island International Film Expo for her performance as Roseanne Crystal in the independent feature film, Serial.[4] In 2010, she received the Rita Moreno HOLA Award for Excellence from the Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors (HOLA). FilmographyFilm
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See also{{Portal|Puerto Rico|Biography}}
References1. ^{{cite news|url=http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/InfoWeb?p_product=AWNB&p_theme=aggregated5&p_action=doc&p_docid=158DE2034C5545B8&p_docnum=13&p_queryname=1 |title=Today's Birthdays|work=Harrisburg Daily Register |location=Harrisburg, Illinois|date= November 2, 2015|page= 4A}} 2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.fandango.com/laurenvelez/biography/p198203 |title=Biographies: Lauren Vélez|website=Fandango}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://newshowontv.com/actresses/lauren-velez.html |title =Lauren Vélez |work=New Show on TV}} 4. ^1 {{cite web|website=Yahoo! Movies|url=https://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800223294/bio|title=Bio Lauren Vélez }} 5. ^{{cite web|website=AOL Television|url=http://television.aol.com/celebs/lauren-velez/1938484/biography|title=Biography: Lauren Vélez }} 6. ^{{cite web|url=http://dexterwiki.sho.com/page/Lauren+Velez|website=DexterWiki.sho.com|title=Dexter: Lauren Vélez|access-date=2010-12-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527225500/http://dexterwiki.sho.com/page/Lauren+Velez|archive-date=2010-05-27|dead-url=yes|df=}} External links
13 : 1964 births|Actresses from New York City|American film actresses|American actresses of Puerto Rican descent|American stage actresses|American television actresses|Identical twin actresses|Living people|People from Brooklyn|Twin people from the United States|20th-century American actresses|21st-century American actresses|People from Far Rockaway, Queens |
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