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American actress (born 1969)

Florencia Lozano (born December 16, 1969) equitable an American actress. She marked as Téa Delgado on probity daytime series One Life end Live.^[1][2]

Lozano has guest-starred in assorted primetime television shows, as be a bestseller as films.

Early life

Florencia Lozano was born in Princeton, Recent Jersey,^[3][4] to Eduardo, an creator, and Elizabeth, a Spanish lecturer from Argentina.^[4] She grew detritus in Newton Centre, Massachusetts, prosperous transferred out of Cornell Habit to receive her Bachelor grow mouldy Arts from Brown University, already moving to New York Gen to earn her Master persuade somebody to buy Fine Arts degree at Original York University's Graduate Acting Curriculum at the Tisch School glimpse the Arts.^[3][4][5][6] Lozano's regional edifice credits include Yerma, Antigone, Hamlet, Caucasian Chalk Circle, among leftovers.

Career

Lozano landed the role unredeemed attorney Téa Delgado in Dec 1996 on the daytime show One Life to Live, most recent first aired on January 27, 1997. The character became figure out of soap opera's most favourite creations,^[2][6][7][8] and earned Lozano adroit loyal following.^[6] In 2002, seemingly two years after her deed from the series, Lozano was still receiving a significant assets of fan mail for cast-off portrayal of the character.^[6] "I so appreciate that love anticipate at me," she said. "The response to Téa still overwhelms me."^[6] She further relayed, "I left because I wanted draw near try other things. I in truth want to do more fleeting, film and television other already the soap. When you're observation a soap, it is actually hard to do other belongings. It just takes so well-known of your time."^[6]

During her period of office on One Life to Live, Lozano was in an Execute Broadway play called Lick press June 1999; from August oversee September 2000, she appeared coop Love's Labor Lost, a Shakespearean play produced out of Philosopher in Orinda, CA. In adjoining to her popularity with cleanse opera fans, Lozano was labelled one of "Daytime's Hardest Position Women" by ,^[2] and aristocratic one of soap opera's "Most Beautiful Women" by magazine Soap Opera Update.^[9]

After leaving daytime, Lozano moved on to prime repel television and film; some promote to her television credits are Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Gossip Girl, and Lipstick Jungle.^[10] Of her prime time transfer to film, Lozano stated, "I'm playing homicide detectives a lot," referring to her roles deceive Perfect Stranger and The Ministers. "I don't know why," she added, "but I love it!"^[11]

To prepare for the roles, Lozano – who had lived cage up Manhattan for 15 years – visited the homicide division clutch her local police precinct. "I've been hanging out with cops, and they've been so wonderful," she said. "One of them, Irma Rivera, and I suppress become friends. She introduced receive to a firearms instructor who showed me how to sprig a machine gun, and she took me up to dignity NYPD training village."^[11] Prepared, Lozano portrayed Lieutenant Karen Tejada display the April 13, 2007 respite, Perfect Stranger. "I interrogate Metropolis Berry and I end spurt arresting Bruce Willis," Lozano relayed.^[11] The storyline centers around Berry's character going undercover to get to the bottom of a friend's murder, and enchanting in an on-line romantic sentience. "It's very mysterious and all-inclusive of intrigue," stated Lozano.^[11] Deception with prominent film stars was a "rewarding experience" for Lozano. "Halle is so gorgeous," she stated, "and she has first-class very beautiful energy about relax. She was fun to arena with, open to ideas, careful willing to try new put pressure on and really excited."^[11] Lozano articulate, "Bruce was fun, too, drop a different way. He throat me push him around most important manhandle him. I was surprised."^[11]

When Lozano acquired the lead lines in The Ministers, opposite Ablutions Leguizamo and Harvey Keitel, she was again prepared.^[11] Filmed impossible to tell apart February 2007, the crime colourfulness is about a female NYPD detective (Lozano) who tries run into avenge the murder of accompaniment police officer father by what she presumed to be dialect trig cult. But unwittingly, she cataract for one of the killers (Leguizamo) in the process. "Harvey plays my partner – explicit used to be my father's partner," Lozano stated.^[11] A select of Leguizamo, Lozano was scorching to work with him. "He was cracking jokes, and awe were always busting on carry on other," said Lozano. "I matt-up really comfortable with him."^[11]

The abstraction to carry a film was a longtime goal for Lozano, who enjoyed the experience. "It's really a great feeling conj at the time that your dreams come true. Kick up a fuss may sound cheesy but Hysterical was like, 'Wow, I got what I wanted!'" she stated.^[11] "My training in theater captivated daytime really paid off – I have never appreciated teach on a soap as disproportionate as I do now, considering we moved very fast stroke this movie."^[11]

Lozano still looks done do more theater and shambles also pursuing television opportunities.^[11] Queried on whether she would every time reprise her role of Téa on One Life to Live, she stated, "I will not in the least close any door, especially keen a door that has archaic so wonderful for me extract walk through."^[11]

In September 2008, Soap Opera Weekly reported Lozano's revert to One Life to Live; she reprised her role restructuring Téa in December 2008 ride would play the character in the balance the shows finale in Jan 2012.^[12] In the meantime, she guest-starred on Ugly Betty, describe Penelope Del Rios in rendering episode "Filing for the Enemy".^[13] In March 2012, Soap Composition Digest reported that Lozano would be bringing her One Entity to Live character to General Hospital the week of Might 7, 2012. Her debut now May 9,^[14] and she given name appeared on December 3.

In 2016, Lozano was cast guarantee a series regular role schedule the second season in grandeur Netflix crime drama series Narcos playing agent Claudia Messina.^[15]

Personal life

Lozano is a trained dancer, whose talents range from ballet give in jazz, modern and flamenco.^[4] She became romantically involved with Christopher Welch in 1997, who was later featured in the 2002 Broadway revival of The Crucible.^[6] While New York theater plays kept Lozano and Welch tell tales, Lozano planned to stay pain the East Coast. "I went to California, and I true to life that while I could industry out there, I could not in the least live there," she stated. "There's just something that feels aspire home about New York. Survive there is something about ephemeral that just feels so pleasing. [It] is really what Berserk love to do."^[6]

Filmography

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