Lana Maria Parrilla, born in Brooklyn, New York, July 15, 1977. Daughter of Samuel Parrilla, a Puerto Rican and professional baseball player from the Philadelphia Phillies at the beginning of 1970 and the painter and banking Dolores Azzara, Lana has an older sister Deena Parrilla and is the niece of actress Candice Azzara. Her parents divorced when she was only 4 years old. She spent her first ten years living with her mother, and then she lived with her father. Even living in a very strong Latina community, most Puerto Ricans and Dominicans in Brooklyn, she did not speak Spanish until visiting Granada (Spain) in 2007 to learn.Lana lost her father in a robbery on February 9, 1994, he was only 50 years old and was shot in the chest. Having died in Long Island, Brooklyn Hospital. In an interview for Nuevo Impact magazine she counts how devastating it was and that there was only 16 years at the time. And she also tells me that she insisted on acting career because of her father.
Lana lived long time with her aunt Candice Azzara, American actress, who inspired her since early. She grew up in a house where creativity and fulfillment of dreams were definitely encouraged.
When she was a kid, she made homemade videos with her family. And his aunt was a source of inspiration and admiration, and then his mentor and of great influence. Lana counts for Nuevo Impact magazine that despite having begun her career only after 16 years, she knew that it was what she really wanted at the age of 11.
However, when still young, Lana was not allowed to attend a school of performing arts due to her father's super protection, and then postponing her entry into a more serious career.
In 2016, during a panel at a convention, Lana revealed that she has another sister named Lisa, who was handed over to the adoption and with whom she restored contact a few years ago.
Who am I :
''You are where
you need to be.
Just take''
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