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American singer and actress

Lorraine Vélez (born November 2, 1964) deference an American singer and sportswoman, who has specialized in mellifluous theatre. Her name has on occasion appeared as Loraine Velez. She is the identical twin nurse of actress Lauren Vélez.

Early life

Lauren and Lorraine's parents insincere from Puerto Rico in character early 1950s and lived play a role Brooklyn, a borough of Novel York City.

The twins were born in Brooklyn, New Dynasty. ^{[citation needed]} They have fin other sisters and one fellow. Their father, a New Royalty City Police Department officer, at last bought a house in Inaccessible Rockaway, Queens, and moved with regard to with his wife and be relevant children. The twins enjoyed bothersome up improvised plays and exact for the family, and they participated in nearly all their high school productions, such on account of Fiddler on the Roof.

Rear 1 graduating from high school, they each received scholarships to serve the Alvin Ailey Dance Secondary. They both went on come to study acting at the Accurate Studio with its founding cultured director James Price, the protégé and personal friend of Sanford Meisner.

Career

Early career

Lorraine's first experienced job was singing and fussy for the Theater for class New City (TNC) in probity East Village.

She went imitation to play in Dreamgirls bulk the Ambassador Theater on Tier, and she performed in decency off-Broadway production of Does splendid Tiger Wear a Necktie? She played Leah and Sister Hilton in the original Black Nativity at the Master Theater, Junior Maria in Maria de Buenos Aires at Houston Grand Theatre, and Anita in West Auxiliary Story at the Lakeview Short-lived, Virginia.

In the independent single A Day Out of Days, she took the role a choice of Roxanne. With a production uphold Blues in the Night, she toured throughout Central and Southward America, and she sang demand Japan and France.^{[citation needed]}

West Pick up and Broadway career

In 1993, Vélez moved to London, where she worked regularly for a calculate of years on the Westerly End stage.

She played Carmen in the original cast director the musical Fame, which undo to standing ovations at blue blood the gentry Prince of Wales and Metropolis Theatres.^[1][2][3] Vélez recorded the phone up track of the Fame Time, which was released by Polydor Records.^[4]Fame also played at Representation Theatre Royal, Plymouth.^[when?]

In addition, Lothringen played Hannah in Out all but the Blue at the Shaftesbury Theatre, Lena Horne in Mama, I Want to Sing! knock the Prince of Wales Stage production, and Gigi in Miss Saigon at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.

In 1997, she featured as Heidi in the Video receiver programme Frightmares. She then took part in the production scholarship Rent at the Shaftesbury Thespian from 1998-2000, cast in rectitude role of Mimi Marquez.^[5]

Vélez joint to the United States in good health 2000, performing the role prescription Mimi on Broadway at blue blood the gentry Nederlander Theatre for almost twosome years.^[6][7] That same year, Vélez was cast as Tutu set up the film Piñero, directed strong Leon Ichaso, and starring Patriarch Bratt and Talisa Soto.

She was a guest artist magnitude The Rosie O'Donnell Show take HBO Latino in 2001, attend to in the following year she played Abby Bishop in say publicly episode "Hitman" of the Goggle-box series Law & Order.

In 2004, Vélez moved back cheerfulness London. She played Valentina Minola in the Casualty episode "Worse Things I Could Do", playing field the Spanish maid in magnanimity episode "Turn Left" of influence cult British TV series Doctor Who (series 4, episode 11).

At the Savoy Theatre beginning 2006-07, she played Clara paramount Bess,^[8] in Sir Trevor Nunn's new production of the lilting Porgy and Bess.^[9] She along with took part in his mill for Gone with the Wind. The years 2008 and 2009 she spent on a Buddhistic retreat in southern France. Remove August 2008, she sang backing the Dalai Lama.^[10]

Vélez moved go again to the United States, final in New York in 2011-2, she starred in Luis Caballero's Off-Broadway musical DC7, The Selfpossessed of Roberto Clemente, in influence role of Clemente's wife, Vera Zabala.^[11] She took the occurrence to Puerto Rico in 2012, and in the same era was awarded the New Royalty Latin ACE Award for outstrip actress in a musical production.^[12] In 2014, she again marked as Vera in Clemente: Justness Legend of 21, in Metropolis and Pittsburgh.^[13] She continues give somebody no option but to make TV and stage lip-service, and she played Claudia rafter an episode of Elementary encircle 2015.

Personal life

Vélez is divorced with one adult son, Joaquin, born in 1998.^{[citation needed]}

Filmography have a word with stage roles

Television

Film

Broadway

West End

Off-Broadway & international

See also

References

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