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 fu...
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Complete Filmography

Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse
2027
as Rio Morales (voice)
Miles Morales is now a fugitive on the run from every other Spider in the multiverse, and Gwen and his other friends might not be enough to help him.

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
2023
as Breanna Diaz
When a new threat capable of destroying the entire planet emerges, Optimus Prime and the Autobots must team up with a powerful faction known as the Ma...

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
2023
as Rio Morales (voice)
After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he encounters the S...
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - Creating the Ultimate Spider-Man Movie
2023
as Self
Writing, pre-production and the challenges of crafting a sequel to a game-changing film, as told by the filmmakers who worked so hard to push Across t...

Rogue Hostage
2021
as Sunshine
A former Marine races against time to save a group of hostages -- including his young daughter and a congressman — when armed militants take over his ...

Swallow
2020
as Lucy
Hunter, a newly pregnant housewife, finds herself increasingly compelled to consume dangerous objects. As her husband and his family tighten their con...

Ana
2020
as Camila
Ana meets Rafa in a chance encounter and they embark on a road trip to try and save him from bankruptcy, or worse.

Shaft
2019
as Bennie Rodriguez
JJ, aka John Shaft Jr., may be a cyber security expert with a degree from MIT, but to uncover the truth behind his best friend’s untimely death, he ne...

Windows on the World
2019
as Eva
After watching the news on 9/11 with his family, Fernando travels from Mexico to New York City to find his father, an undocumented worker at the World...

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
2018
as Rio Morales (voice)
Struggling to find his place in the world while juggling school and family, Brooklyn teenager Miles Morales is unexpectedly bitten by a radioactive sp...

The First Purge
2018
as Luisa
To push the crime rate below one percent for the rest of the year, the New Founding Fathers of America test a sociological theory that vents aggressio...

Officer Downe
2016
as Police Chief Berringer
A rookie cop is tasked with shadowing Officer Downe, a no-nonsense LAPD cop with regenerative powers, as he wages an ultra-violent war against the nef...

America Adrift
2016
as Cecilia Fernandez
For Cecelia Fernandez, moving her family to a beautiful home in the Long Island suburbs feels like she's finally achieved the "American Dream." But wh...

America Adrift
2016
Producer
For Cecelia Fernandez, moving her family to a beautiful home in the Long Island suburbs feels like she's finally achieved the "American Dream." But wh...

Rosewood Lane
2011
as Paula Crenshaw
Radio talk show therapist Sonny Blake moves back to her childhood home on seemingly idyllic Rosewood Lane after her alcoholic father dies. But upon ar...
Sugar Pathways
2009
as Narrator
The riveting story of the unwilling migration by Puerto Rican families from the small Caribbean island of Vieques to the US Virgin Islands.

Prison Song
2001
as Prison Counselor (uncredited)
Elijah has been bounced from group home to group home throughout his turbulent young life. What has sustained him is his art. After a promised scholar...

Love and Treason
2001
as Agent Susan Mestre (as Lauren Vélez)
Kate is a Naval officer whose married to a Marine. When she learns her husband is committing treason she turns him in. He's sent to prison and she div...
Starwater
2001
Made by Scott William Winters, Starwater is a star-studded experimental film shot while doing the HBO series ‘Oz’.

Prince of Central Park
2000
as Rosa Sanchez
A young boy sets out to find his mother. After setting up camp in Central Park, he encounters a group of people even needier than himself.

Thicker Than Blood
1998
as Camilla Lopez
Griffin Byrne is the idealistic new history, English and maths teacher in Father Frank Larkin's school in a mainly Latino ghetto neighborhood where mo...
The LaMastas
1998
An unemployed loafer assembles a motley crew to break into a bank vault to win back his girlfriend.

I Think I Do
1997
as Carol
The marriage of mutual friends reunites former college roommates Bob and Brendan, who tried to ignore the sexual tension that always flowed between th...

City Hall
1996
as Elaine Santos
The accidental shooting of a boy in New York leads to an investigation by the Deputy Mayor, and unexpectedly far-reaching consequences.

I Like It Like That
1994
as Lisette Linares
After her husband is arrested for looting, Lisette struggles for independence while dealing with her gender-confused sibling, her critical mother-in-l...