Biography
Lorena Jorge 2025 Bio
Lorena Jorge, is a Multi-hyphenated Award winning Actor, Artist, and small business owner of NYC restaurant, Morena’s Kitchen Bar and Restaurant in Queens. She holds her BA from Fordham University in Criminology and Sociology. She is an alum of the William Esper Studios, trained under the late Bill Esper. She is Disney’s First AfroLatina Super hero in the Imagen and Emmy nominated TV series "Ultra Violet and Black Scorpion" starring as Catalina/Cascada. She also voices three recurring characters in Oscar winner, Matthew Cherry’s TV’s Critic Choice, NAACP, and Emmy nominated animated series, Young Love, on HBOMax. You have also seen her in Children’s Emmy nominated Childmind Institute "Hedgehogland" series and guest star in OWN’s series "All Rise", CBS’s "NCIS", CW’s "Jane The Virgin", and TNT’s "The Last Ship" to name a few. She has starred in 2021 Telly Award Winning feature "Try" and won Best Actress in a Sci-Fi for HBOmax’s award winning short "KEEP/DELETE" by Kryzz Gautier. You can watch her currently in Mano a Mano Productions "Estela is it You," "As the Day Goes By" by Moses Lawi, and Henry Alexander Kelly’s Videogaming/Fantasy Award winning Film in International ESI: Film Festival in Lisbon "Chuck and Fern," where she is nominated in New Filmmakers Los Angeles for Best Actress in a Comedy.
Lorena not only has graced the silver screens but many New York City stages like The Spanish Repertory Theater’s "La Gringa", Thalia Theatre’s "The Ladies of Avigñon" David Lamb’s Platanos and Collard Greens, and Cristin Eve Cato’s Off Broadway WP Theater Production "O.K." She is a prominent Voiceover Talent and Host recognized by her neutral accent in both Spanish and English Commercials, Animation, Radio promos, Video Games, and children’s Audiobooks such as penguin random house "Todo el Mundo Cabe Aqui" and "Callaloo". You can listen to her as one of the key hosts on the Latin Dish Podcast in the Digital Podcast Network.
Ms. Jorge is as active in front of the camera as behind the lens as a writer, Producer and Assistant Director. She has written and produced a couple award winning short films like "Black is the New Brown" and "Pinky’s Dream" under her production company Hidden Root Productions. She has Assistant Directed from Music videos like Puerto Rican Reggaeton artist Zerimar’s over 1.4 million YouTube views "Otra Vida,"Facebook’s 8 commercial spots collaboration with Fitness App, SWEAT, features like PSYCHE of IMN Creative, Documentary "Vida Nueva," by Eliana Reyes and upcoming short films like "Jodon" by Ricky Rosario and Marilyn Simon, which her Restaurant, Morena’s Kitchen Bar and Restaurant, catered throughout Production. She has acted and assistant directed in award winning pilot "Ellay" and one to watch two time award winning "I Love this Arrangement." Overall, Lorena Jorge is an interdisciplinary Artist and Entrepreneur within the Entertainment, Real-Estate and Food Industry. She is a proud first generation American, a daughter of immigrants, who from an early age instilled a mantra she lives by, "With Hard Work, Anything is Possible."
