In 2010, she received the Rita Moreno HOLA Award for Excellence from the Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors (HOLA). On June 24, 2006, Vélez 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.
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She played police lieutenant María LaGuerta, in a major supporting role on Showtime's series Dexter. In 1997, she starred in Buscando un Sueño ( In Search of a Dream), the first Spanish-language film sanctioned by SAG. She also acted in the feature film City Hall (1996) with Al Pacino.
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Another TV series in which she performed was HBO's jail drama Oz.
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The movie was nominated for four Independent Spirit Awards and won an NYFCCA award. She was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award and The Desi Award for Best Lead Actress. In 1995, Vélez landed her first major television role as Nina Moreno, a policewoman, in the TV series New York Undercover. In 1994, Vélez made her film debut as Lisette Linares in the movie I Like It Like That alongside Rita Moreno and Jon Seda. She was also an understudy for actress Phylicia Rashad in Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods, and performed Off-Broadway in productions of Much Ado About Nothing. and Eddie search for suspects in an underworld of child molesters when the young son of a city council candidate is kidnapped in Central Park. Vélez landed her first performing job in the national touring company of the musical Dreamgirls. Lauren also studied Shakespeare with Michael Howard. They went on to study acting at The Acting Studio - New York with its founding artistic director James Price, protégé and personal friend of Sanford Meisner. After graduating from Beach Channel High School in 1982, they received scholarships to attend the Alvin Ailey Dance School.
The twins staged improvised plays and acting for the family and participated in nearly all their high school drama productions, such as Fiddler on the Roof. Vélez's father, a New York City Police Department officer, eventually bought a house in Far Rockaway, Queens, and moved the family there. The twins have five other sisters and one brother. In the early 1950s, Vélez's parents moved from Puerto Rico to Brooklyn, New York, where she and her identical twin sister, Lorraine Vélez, were born. She also starred as Rio Morales in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018). two undercover detectives, from New Yorks 21st Precinct, solve these crimes while protecting the rest of society. The Brooklyn spitter will be starring alongside Malik. Gloria Nathan on HBO's prison drama Oz, and Elena on ABC's comedy-drama Ugly Betty. Hip hop veteran MC Lyte is joining the cast for the reboot of the 90s cop drama New York Undercover. Her most notable television roles are as María LaGuerta on Showtime's Dexter, Detective Nina Moreno on Fox's New York Undercover, Dr. Luna Lauren Vélez (born November 2, 1964) is an American actress and the identical twin sister of actress Lorraine Vélez. When the 2-year-old son of a prosecutor-turned-candidate is abducted, a sex offender (Peter Van Wagner) the candidate prosecuted is suspect.
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