Lela Loren
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Lela Maria Loren Avellaneda Sharp (born May 7, 1980), known professionally as Lela Loren, is an American television actress.
She is best known for her leading role as Angela "Angie" Valdes on the Starz television series, Power.She rose to prominence in 2006 when she appeared in numerous television shows such as Cold Case, The Shield, CSI: Miami, CSI:NY and Ghost Whisperer.
She has also made numerous film appearances such as The Hangover Part III and Reign Over Me.
She has an upcoming role as Danica Harlan on the second season of the Netflix science fiction series Altered Carbon.
Early life
Loren was born Maria Loren Avellaneda Sharp on May 7, 1980, in Sacramento, California. She has one sibling, an older brother, Daniel Sharp, who is the executive chef at a small restaurant in New York City. Her mother is of Mexican descent, received her college degree in her 40s, and became a teacher; her father, an American, was working as an economist at the time he married her mother. She spent her childhood in Sacramento, California, and later, in suburban Sacramento, although spending summers in an area of her mother's heritage, in Mexico. Loren has stated that, despite her mom being from Michoacán, Mexico, she did not learn Spanish until she was 10 years old, and that doing so helped her to communicate with relatives when she would return to the village from which her mother came. From early childhood, Loren had surrounded herself with an array of pets, and had intended a career in biology. Loren went to an all-girls' high school, where she was a member of a men's rowing team.
Loren attended the Whitman College, in Walla Walla, Washington, where she majored in biology. She "begrudgingly fell in love" with acting after enrolling in a fine arts course "to get it out of the way", only to find herself moved to an entry level acting class when the arts class was full. It is reported that she did work on a commercial fishing boat in Alaska as a means to pay her college expenses. She graduated with a B.A. in theatre, in 2002. She also studied performing arts at the Ruskin School of Acting. From her upbringing and studies, Loren is fluent in English, Spanish, and Italian.
Personal life
Loren also writes poems, which is part of her process of getting into character.
Career
Loren says it took three years for her first acting role and that she "paid her dues with little roles"—in The Shield, Gang Related, and shows of the CSI franchise. More television appearances have been followed, including in Cold Case and Ghost Whisperer. Loren started acting as Angela Valdes on the Starz television series Power.
Loren appeared in the second season of Netflix's science fiction series Altered Carbon as a series regular, portraying Danica Harlan's character.
Loren has appeared in films including The Hangover Part III and Reign Over Me.
Loren played Flora at the American Conservatory Theater in José Rivera's Boleros for the Disenchanted in 2009. Antonia appeared in a stage version of My Antonia at Pacific Resident Theatre.