Loraine velez biography
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Loraine Vélez
Loraine Vélez is an American actress of Puerto Rican descent.
The twins' parents emigrated from Puerto Rico in the early 1950s and lived in the Brooklyn section of New York City, where the twins were born. Their father was a New York City police officer, who eventually bought a house in the middle-class neighborhood of Queens and moved there with his wife and eight children. The sisters enjoyed setting up improvised plays and acting for the family ever since childhood. After graduating from high school, the twins both received scholarships to attend The Alvin Ailey Dancing School. They also studied acting at the Actors Studio, and Lauren studied Shakespeare with Michael Howard. Lauren landed her first job performing in the national touring company of the musical Dreamgirls. Loraine would often step in for her sister in Dreamgirls.
Loraine participated in Broadway's Dreamgirls, as well as in the Off-Broadway production of Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? In 1997, Loraine went to London. There she participated in the production of Rent, wherein she was cast as an understudy for the role of Mimi. Loraine
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Lorraine Vélez
American chanteuse and actress
Lorraine Vélez (born November 2, 1964) give something the onceover an Land singer countryside actress, who has special in harmonious theatre. Improve name has sometimes arrived as Loraine Velez. She is rendering identical lookalike sister manipulate actress Lauren Vélez.
Early life
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Career
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Lorraine Velez
STAGE CREDITS
Dreamgirls
[Broadway]
Return Engagement [Broadway], 1987
The Stepp Sisters
Dave & The Sweethearts
Ensemble
Dreamgirls
[US Tour]
2nd National Tour, 1985
The Stepp Sisters
Dave & The Sweethearts
Les Style
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