Luna Lauren Vélez
Biography
Luna Lauren Vélez (born November 2, 1964) is an American actress. Her most notable television roles are as María LaGuerta on Showtime's Dexter, Detective Nina Moreno on Fox's New York Undercover, Dr. Gloria Nathan on HBO's prison drama Oz, and Elena on ABC's comedy-drama Ugly Betty. She also starred as Rio Morales in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023). Description above from the Wikipedia article Lauren Vélez, licensed under CC-BY-SA, is a full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Also Known As
Movie Appearances
Starwater
2001
I Like It Like That
as Lisette Linares
1994
I Think I Do
as Carol
1997
Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse
as Rio Morales (voice)
2027
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
as Rio Morales (voice)
2023
Rosewood Lane
as Paula Crenshaw
2011
Prince of Central Park
as Rosa Sanchez
2000
Thicker Than Blood
as Camilla Lopez
1998
Officer Downe
as Police Chief Berringer
2016
Sugar Pathways
as Narrator
2009
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
as Rio Morales (voice)
2018
The First Purge
as Luisa
2018
City Hall
as Elaine Santos
1996
The LaMastas
1998
Shaft
as Bennie Rodriguez
2019
America Adrift
as Cecilia Fernandez
2016
Windows on the World
as Eva
2019
Ana
as Camila
2020
Love and Treason
as Agent Susan Mestre (as Lauren Vélez)
2001
Swallow
as Lucy
2020
TV Appearances
Medium
as Elena Cabrera
2005
Numb3rs
as Claudia Gomez
2005
The Pretender
as Emily Sadler
1996
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Defense Attorney Shamal
1999
Profiler
as Emily Sadler
1996
New York Undercover
as Nina Moreno
1994
MacGyver
as Cassandra Glover
2016
Ugly Betty
as Elena
2006
Dexter
as Maria LaGuerta
2006
Oz
as Dr. Gloria Nathan
1997
Law & Order
as Ms. Torres
1990
Power Book II: Ghost
as Evelyn Castillo
2020