Lela Loren studied biology before she fell in love with acting, but found common threads between the two. That curiosity is what drew her to Netflix’s ‘Altered Carbon.’ She plays Danica Harlan, the governor of the planet Harlan.
Lauren says: “I like getting my hands dirty. I like being in the earth. I love life. I love bugs and insects and creatures and animals.”
“My background was originally biology before I sort of hooked left into acting and so I still have that. Really what I love biology for was these big, over-arching questions like what is this life, what does it mean to be human…” – Associated Press