Lauren And Loraine Vélez Video | Celebrity Interview and Paparazzi

Lauren and Loraine Vￃﾩlez (born November 2, 1964 in Brooklyn, New York) are twin sisters of Puerto Rican descent who are actresses.The twins parents immigrated from Puerto Rico in the early 1950s and lived in the Brooklyn section of New York where the twins were born. Their father was a New York City police officer, who eventually brought 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. Lauren once played the part of a groundhog in a second... MORE

Lauren and Loraine Vￃﾩlez (born November 2, 1964 in Brooklyn, New York) are twin sisters of Puerto Rican descent who are actresses.The twins parents immigrated from Puerto Rico in the early 1950s and lived in the Brooklyn section of New York where the twins were born. Their father was a New York City police officer, who eventually brought 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. Lauren once played the part of a groundhog in a second grade school play, after which she decided to be an actor. After graduating from high school, the twins both received scholarship to attend The Alvin Ailey Dancing School. They also studied acting at The Acting 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.In Broadway, besides doing Dreamgirls, Lauren played understudy for actress Phylicia Rashad in Broadway's "Into the Woods". She also performed Off-Broadway in the productions LESS