Jun 28
Bio
Lauren Vélez (born November 2, 1964 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American actress of Puerto Rican descent and the twin sister of actress Loraine Velez.
The twins’ parents emigrated from Puerto Rico in the early 1950s and lived in the Brooklyn section of New York where the twins were born. Their father was a New York City police officer who eventually bought a house in the middle class neighborhood of Rockaway Queens and moved there with his wife and eight children. The sisters enjoyed setting up improvised plays and acting for the family ever since childhood. Lauren once played the part of a groundhog in a second grade school play, after which she decided to be an actor.