Lauren Vélez
Vélez in 2011, Helga Esteb / Shutterstock.com
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, U.S.
Date of Birth: November 2, 1964
Ethnicity: Puerto Rican [African, Spanish]
Lauren Vélez, also credited as Luna Lauren Vélez, is an American actress.
She was born in Brooklyn, New York. Her parents moved there from Puerto Rico in the 1950s, and her father became an New York City police officer. Her twin sister is actress Lorraine Vélez.
Lauren is known for her roles in the television series New York Undercover and Dexter. She is considered one of the breakthrough Latina actresses who does not fit a European-Hispanic and/or Indigenous-Hispanic image. For this, Lauren has a large multi-ethnic following. Her father was of African-Puerto Rican descent.
she’s afro-puerto rican
she’s afro-rican
no she is not a afro rican
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pff she is a puerto rican
with african ancestry
I love her on “Dexter” and she’s gorgeous.
She awesome and so is that series.
i know she’s latino descent because she knows her spanish to well not just that she passes as one and she’s one hell of an actress i remember ole tyme religion when she first came on the sceene i said that they needed her to become a cop and join the team which were j.c. williams,eddie torres, virgina cooper, and tommy mcnamarra shes beautiful and she’s got a bright future ahead of her. im her biggest fan.
I think she is “black/mulatto” hispanic. She doesn’t look like the latina girls with white skin a la JLO. I think both look good.
Just an educational lesson: Hispanic/Latina isn’t an ethnicity. Hispanics and latinos come in both “black” or white”. She looks the way she does because of the African disapora during the slave trade which many African slaves were routed to what we call today South America, Central America, North America, even the islands such as Puerto Rico, Cuba, etc. “White” latinas are those mainly of Spain, German, or Portuguese descent mixed with Native American. “Black” latinas are those mainly mixed of West African descent, European, and Native American. So of course no one can really classify latinos/hispanics as someone who looks a certain way. It’s the same for Creoles. Me being Creole, I do look like your average “black” woman, but many also say that I look Afro-Cuban or mixed with Chinese because of my West African, French, and Native American mix. Louisiana Creoles also have distinctive looks and you may say they do not look like the “blacks” you see everyday. Conclusion is hispanics/latinas are not an ethnic group per se. Just think of them as being mixed ethnic people because that’s exactly what they are.
clart kent no offensive friend but not all of us look the same we come in all shades my friend.