Birth Name: Michelle Algarin
Place of Birth: Peabody, Massachusetts
Ethnicity: Puerto Rican, Dominican
Valenzia Algarin is an American actress who was born to a Puerto Rican father named Carlos Algarin and a Dominican mother named Mercedes Algarin, both of whom are of mixed race.
When auditioning for a Latina role, she was told that she wasn’t “Latina enough” and so she re-auditioned a week later as Valenzia Algarin with a Latina accent and got the role. She has stuck with the name ever since.
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