Biography - Lorenza Izzo

Who is Lorenza Izzo?

Lorenza Izzo is an actress and a model.

Lorenza Izzo – Age, Parents, Siblings

Lorenza Izzo was born Lorenza Francesca Izzo Parsons on September 19, 1989. Her birthplace is in Santiago, Chile and her parents are Claudio Izzo and Rosita Parsons, a Chilean model. Her mother was only 17 years old at the time of her birth. She also has a half-sister named Clara Lyons Parsons, who is also a model.

When she was only 12 years old, she moved with her father to Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Her father was working on a Ph.D. at the Georgia Institute of Technology. In the United States, she attended school there but was bullied for her strong Chilean accent.

Education, Ethnicity

After graduating from a Chilean high school, Izzo attended the University of Los Andes, studying journalism, and later in 2007 moved to New York to study acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. She is also studying design at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Her ethnicity includes Spanish, Italian, and English.

Lorenza Izzo – Boyfriend, Husband, Children, Divorce

Lorenza Izzo met director Eli Roth on the set of the 2013 film The Green Inferno. Their mutual friend director Nicolás López had introduced them. In fact, Roth was the one who cast her in the lead role of The Green Inferno. 

Sources revealed that Lorenza Izzo and Eli Roth would "spent the whole shooting process together".  Soon it was revealed that they were also dating. After a year Izzo married her boyfriend turned fiancé on November 8, 2014, on the beach of Zapallar, Chile.

After almost four years of blissful marriage, her husband filed for divorce on July 16, 2018. It has not been revealed why they were getting a divorce, although an affair cannot be ruled out. The couple does not have any children.

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Lorenza Izzo – Career

Early Days

While at the University of Los Andes, Lorenza Izzo started following in her mother’s footsteps in modeling. In 2010, she was cast as an actress in the film Instrucciones para mi funeral (Instructions for my Funeral), as a graduation project. 

Izzo’s big break in her career came in 2011. She and her mother were invited to São Paulo Fashion Week. There they met Brazilian model and actress Gisele Bundchen, who helped Izzo in becoming the new face of a Brazilian fashion company called Colcci. 

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Films, Series

The same year, she was cast in Que pena tu boda (Sorry About Your Wedding). She then went on to star in Aftershock (2012), The Green Inferno (2013), The Stranger (2014), Sex Ed (2014), Knock Knock (2015), and I'm Not Crazy (2015). 

For the movie, The Green Inferno Lorenza Izzo was actually given a small role. And when the director Nicolás López came to know that she did speak fluent English, actor, and director Eli Roth cast her as the main character. In the horror film Knock Knock, she starred alongside Keanu Reeves and Ana de Armas.

In other films, Lorenza Izzo has played roles in Our Holidays (2016), Life Itself (2018), The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018), Where We Go from Here (2018), Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), Perceptive Matter (2019).

Izzo has also appeared in TV series including Hemlock Grove (2013), I Am Victor (2013), Feed the Beast (2016), Dimension 404 (2017), Casual (2018), etc.

Co-stars

On the set of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Lorenza Izzo has worked with  Dakota Fanning, Margaret Qualley, Luke Perry, Julia Butters, Timothy Olyphant.

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Lorenza Izzo – Net Worth, Salary

The net worth of Izzo is around $15 million while the figure on his annual salary is unknown.

Lorenza Izzo – Instagram, Twitter, Facebook

On Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook, Lorenza Izzo is followed by millions of followers and counting.

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