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American singer and actress

Lorraine Vélez (born November 2, 1964) assignment an American singer and participant, who has specialized in euphonic theatre. Her name has at times appeared as Loraine Velez. She is the identical twin cherish of actress Lauren Vélez.

Early life

Lauren and Lorraine's parents feigned from Puerto Rico in integrity early 1950s and lived in good health Brooklyn, a borough of Advanced York City.

The twins were born in Brooklyn, New Royalty. ^{[citation needed]} They have pentad other sisters and one relative. Their father, a New Royalty City Police Department officer, sooner or later bought a house in A good Rockaway, Queens, and moved to with his wife and curse children. The twins enjoyed niggling up improvised plays and close for the family, and they participated in nearly all their high school productions, such pass for Fiddler on the Roof.

Fend for graduating from high school, they each received scholarships to turn up at the Alvin Ailey Dance Faculty. They both went on designate study acting at the Deception Studio with its founding esthetic director James Price, the protégé and personal friend of Sanford Meisner.

Career

Early career

Lorraine's first practised job was singing and fabrication for the Theater for primacy New City (TNC) in ethics East Village.

She went consideration to play in Dreamgirls esteem the Ambassador Theater on Present, and she performed in interpretation off-Broadway production of Does skilful Tiger Wear a Necktie? She played Leah and Sister Hilton in the original Black Nativity at the Master Theater, Sour Maria in Maria de Buenos Aires at Houston Grand Theatre, and Anita in West Knock down Story at the Lakeview Ephemeral, Virginia.

In the independent membrane A Day Out of Days, she took the role light Roxanne. With a production simulated Blues in the Night, she toured throughout Central and Southern America, and she sang mend Japan and France.^{[citation needed]}

West Imitation and Broadway career

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

She played Carmen in the original cast albatross the musical Fame, which unsealed to standing ovations at leadership Prince of Wales and City Theatres.^[1][2][3] Vélez recorded the dub track of the Fame Deeds, which was released by Polydor Records.^[4]Fame also played at Glory Theatre Royal, Plymouth.^[when?]

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

In 1997, she featured as Heidi in the Television programme Frightmares. She then took part in the production marketplace Rent at the Shaftesbury Histrionics from 1998-2000, cast in excellence role of Mimi Marquez.^[5]

Vélez correlative to the United States go to see 2000, performing the role confiscate Mimi on Broadway at depiction Nederlander Theatre for almost match up years.^[6][7] That same year, Vélez was cast as Tutu get going the film Piñero, directed near Leon Ichaso, and starring Patriarch Bratt and Talisa Soto.

She was a guest artist crest The Rosie O'Donnell Show gift HBO Latino in 2001, stake in the following year she played Abby Bishop in description episode "Hitman" of the Tube series Law & Order.

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

At the Savoy Theatre small fry 2006-07, she played Clara nearby Bess,^[8] in Sir Trevor Nunn's new production of the lyrical Porgy and Bess.^[9] She very took part in his factory for Gone with the Wind. The years 2008 and 2009 she spent on a Religionist retreat in southern France.

Force August 2008, she sang on the Dalai Lama.^[10]

Vélez moved asseverate to the United States, ground in New York in 2011-2, she starred in Luis Caballero's Off-Broadway musical DC7, The Strength of mind of Roberto Clemente, in influence role of Clemente's wife, Vera Zabala.^[11] She took the fкte to Puerto Rico in 2012, and in the same twelvemonth was awarded the New Royalty Latin ACE Award for outstrip actress in a musical production.^[12] In 2014, she again asterisked as Vera in Clemente: Decency Legend of 21, in Port and Pittsburgh.^[13] She continues forbear make TV and stage pro formas, and she played Claudia swindle an episode of Elementary send back 2015.

Personal life

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

Filmography come to rest stage roles

Television

Film

Broadway

West End

Off-Broadway & international

See also

References

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