1. In 2019, Lela Loren joined the second season of the Netflix science fiction series, Altered Carbon as a series regular, playing the character of Danica Harlan.
18 Facts About Lela Loren
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Lela Loren was born Maria Lela Loren Avellaneda Sharp on May 7,1980, in Sacramento, California.
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Lela Loren has one sibling, an older brother, Daniel Sharp, who is the executive chef at a small restaurant in New York City.
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Lela Loren's 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.
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Lela Loren spent her childhood in Sacramento, California, and later, in suburban Sacramento, although spending summers in an area of her mother's heritage, in Mexico.
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Lela Loren has stated that, despite her mom being from Michoacan, 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.
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From early childhood, Lela Loren had surrounded herself with an array of pets, and had intended a career in biology.
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Lela Loren went to an all-girls' high school, where she was a member of a men's rowing team.
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Lela Loren attended Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, where she majored in biology.
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Lela Loren "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.
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Lela Loren studied performing arts at the Ruskin School of Acting.
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From her upbringing and studies, Lela Loren is fluent in English, Spanish, and Italian.
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In 2019, Lela Loren joined the second season of the Netflix science fiction series, Altered Carbon, as a series regular, playing the character of Danica Harlan.
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In 2021, Lela Loren joined the third season of STARZ's series American Gods as Marguerite Olsen, a reporter for the local paper, a committed single mother of two, and a property manager.
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Lela Loren has had various film roles, including in The Hangover Part III in 2013 and Reign Over Me in 2007.
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In 2009, Lela Loren played the lead role, Flora, at the American Conservatory Theater in Jose Rivera's Boleros for the Disenchanted.
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Lela Loren starred as Antonia in a stage production of My Antonia at Pacific Resident Theatre.
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Lela Loren writes poems, which is part of her process of getting into character.