Luna Lauren Velez
Also Known As: Lauren Luna Vélez, Luna Velez, Lauren Vélez, לונה ולז, Λούνα Βέλεζ, Λόρεν Βέλεζ, لونا لورن ولز
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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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Birthday: November 02, 1964
Age: 60 years old
Gender: Female
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Starwater
Overview: Made by Scott William Winters, Starwater is a star-studded experimental film shot while doing the HBO series ‘Oz’.
Genres: War Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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I Like It Like That
Overview: After her husband is arrested for looting, Lisette struggles for independence while dealing with her gender-confused sibling, her critical mother-in-law and assorted neighborhood eccentrics.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-14
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I Think I Do
Overview: The marriage of mutual friends reunites former college roommates Bob and Brendan, who tried to ignore the sexual tension that always flowed between them. Brendan finally comes out to Bob at the reception, but is it a case of too little, too late?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-06-20
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Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse
Overview: 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.
Genres: Animation Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2027-06-02
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Overview: After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he encounters the Spider Society, a team of Spider-People charged with protecting the Multiverse’s very existence. But when the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles finds himself pitted against the other Spiders and must set out on his own to save those he loves most.
Genres: Animation Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-05-31
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Rosewood Lane
Overview: Radio talk show therapist Sonny Blake moves back to her childhood home on seemingly idyllic Rosewood Lane after her alcoholic father dies. But upon arrival in the old neighborhood, Sonny discovers her neighbors are terrified of the local paperboy. She thinks this is ridiculous, until she encounters the boy himself. It turns out that he is a cunning and dangerous sociopath, one who may have gruesomely killed her father - and others.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-15
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Prince of Central Park
Overview: 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.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-22
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Thicker Than Blood
Overview: Griffin Byrne is the idealistic new history, English and maths teacher in Father Frank Larkin's school in a mainly Latino ghetto neighborhood where most kids, even many of its graduates, end up in crime and poverty. He takes a particular interest in one of the boys nobody believes will ever come to anything, Lee Cortes, who he finds to be a prodigy in cartoon drawing but who never spoke a word at school, and always wears a Walkman, essentially because of his home situation: his elder brother Tyro, a drug dealer, abuses him and his mother, so he often stays home to mind the smallest siblings. Griffin tries everything to help Lee, despite everyones cynicism, even takes him in his bachelor flat, but finds the whole family situation must be solved, which is probably beyond his power, yet tries tireless, even if he gets nothing but abuse and the results seem to do more hurting then helping...
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-31
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Officer Downe
Overview: 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 nefarious villains of Los Angeles.
Genres: Action Comedy Science Fiction Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-11-18
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Sugar Pathways
Overview: The riveting story of the unwilling migration by Puerto Rican families from the small Caribbean island of Vieques to the US Virgin Islands.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-06-09
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Overview: Struggling to find his place in the world while juggling school and family, Brooklyn teenager Miles Morales is unexpectedly bitten by a radioactive spider and develops unfathomable powers just like the one and only Spider-Man. While wrestling with the implications of his new abilities, Miles discovers a super collider created by the madman Wilson "Kingpin" Fisk, causing others from across the Spider-Verse to be inadvertently transported to his dimension.
Genres: Animation Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-12-06
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The First Purge
Overview: 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 aggression for one night in one isolated community. But when the violence of oppressors meets the rage of the others, the contagion will explode from the trial-city borders and spread across the nation.
Genres: Action Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-07-04
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City Hall
Overview: The accidental shooting of a boy in New York leads to an investigation by the Deputy Mayor, and unexpectedly far-reaching consequences.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-02-16
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The LaMastas
Overview: An unemployed loafer assembles a motley crew to break into a bank vault to win back his girlfriend.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Shaft
Overview: 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 needs an education only his dad can provide. Absent throughout JJ’s youth, the legendary locked-and-loaded John Shaft agrees to help his progeny navigate Harlem’s heroin-infested underbelly.
Genres: Action Crime Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-06-14
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America Adrift
Overview: 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 when her youngest son, Cameron, starts cutting class, acting out, and using heroin, ever-optimistic Cecelia begins to feel helpless and unable to juggle the demands of her personal and professional lives.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-11-01
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Windows on the World
Overview: 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 Trade Center's famous Windows on the World restaurant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-04-28
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Ana
Overview: Ana meets Rafa in a chance encounter and they embark on a road trip to try and save him from bankruptcy, or worse.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-01-03
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Love and Treason
Overview: 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 divorces him and would have to deal with the stigma of being married to a traitor. A few years later, her husband escapes from prison and the consensus is that he's going after her. And he approaches her but doesn't do anything to her. She thinks he's up to something and tries to find out what it is.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-07
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Swallow
Overview: Hunter, a newly pregnant housewife, finds herself increasingly compelled to consume dangerous objects. As her husband and his family tighten their control over her life, she must confront the dark secret behind her new obsession.
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-01-15
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Rogue Hostage
Overview: 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 stepfather's store.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-06-11
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Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
Overview: 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 Maximals. With the fate of humanity hanging in the balance, humans Noah and Elena will do whatever it takes to help the Transformers as they engage in the ultimate battle to save Earth.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-06-06
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Prison Song
Overview: 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 scholarship is taken away, Elijah ends up in a fight that result in the death of another boy. Now, sentenced to a minimum of fifteen years, the young man must find a way to keep his soul alive behind bars or turn into a hardened bitter criminal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-27
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - Creating the Ultimate Spider-Man Movie
Overview: 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 the Spider-Verse several steps farther without losing the magic of the first entry in the series.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-05-09
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