# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lauren-velez
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:31:46.587Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lauren-velez"
name: "Lauren Vélez"
slug: "lauren-velez"
description: "Luna Lauren Vélez is an American actress. Her most notable television 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. She also starred as Rio Morales in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)."
tagline: "American actress (born 1964)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lauren_V%C3%A9lez_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1964-11-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           55.67
  momentum:             0
  historical:           23.16366266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/lalunavelez/"
    handle:    "lalunavelez"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0904967/"
    handle:    "nm0904967"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Lauren Vélez"
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    title: "لورن فيليز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "لورین ولز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lauren Vélez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lauren Vélez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lauren Vélez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_V%C3%A9lez"
    title: "Lauren Vélez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_V%C3%A9lez"
    title: "Lauren Vélez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lauren Vélez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ローレン・ヴェレス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lauren Vélez"
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    title: "Lauren Vélez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lauren Vélez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Велес, Лорен"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_V%C3%A9lez"
    title: "Lauren Vélez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_V%C3%A9lez"
    title: "Lauren Vélez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_V%C3%A9lez"
    title: "Lauren Vélez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Лорен Велес"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q235359"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/141610"
    title: "Luna Lauren Vélez"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump