Lorenza Izzo Biography: In Her Own Words – Exclusive Video, News, Photos, Age

Lorenza Francesca Izzo Parsons, better known as Lorenza Izzo, is a Chilean model and actress. She has been closely associated with the horror genre from her early years on screen, performing in films such as Aftershock, The Green Inferno and Knock Knock.

LORENZA IZZO BIOGRAPHY: AGE, EARLY LIFE, FAMILY, EDUCATION

Lorenza Izzo was born on September 19, 1989 (Lorenza Izzo age: 33) in Santiago, Chile, to Claudio Izzo and Rosita Parsons, who was known as a Chilean model herself. 

Izzo is of Italian descent on her father’s side. She has one younger sister, Clara Lyon Parsons, who just so happens to be a model as well. At 12 years old, Izzo relocated to Atlanta, Georgia, along with her father, who was working towards receiving his Ph.D. at the Georgia Institute of Technology. 

Izzo was often bullied over her strong Chilean accent, but mentioned that she “got over” it “pretty fast” after having viewed the 2002 sports film Blue Crush several times. She even recalled growing “obsessed with” actress Kate Bosworth.

LORENZA IZZO BIOGRAPHY: CAREER

In 2007, Izzo was modeling and studying journalism while enrolled at the University of the Andes when she decided to move to New York City in order to study acting at the Lee Strasburg Theatre and Film Institute. She made her acting debut in 2010 when she performed in the independent Spanish film Instrucciones Para Mi FuneraI.

In an exclusive interview with uInterview, Izzo revealed the first acting experience she had that made her realize she wanted to pursue it as a profession.

“I knew I wanted to make people laugh from a very young age,” Izzo reflected. “So, my mom used to tell me that I would just run around naked dressed up like different characters, and just like be a naked character. I don’t know why I was such a nudist. I am not that anymore,” Izzo laughed. “I don’t think I had a right moment. In fact, I studied journalism for two years. I knew I clearly loved communication. Like that’s what I’ve always cared about. Communicating is key to me and after I think, oh, I can tell you. The first school play, I didn’t care if I was tree number four or the lead ladybug, and I didn’t get the ladybug. I got tree number four, and I’m telling you I was going home, ‘mommy, mommy. I got the tree number four,’ and I worked so hard in creating this tree. And I was just a cardboard tree sitting in the chorus and it was exhilarating. I was hooked. And from then on, theater class was my favorite subject. I never stopped going and it was tree number four that got me into acting.”

When asked about the most challenging thing regarding filming the American drama Women Is Losers, this is what Izzo had to say:

“This was a very, all in all, beautiful and challenging film,” Izzo declared. “We were living kind of a mirror of the character. We had so many obstacles and so many challenges. We were working with very few resources and finding resources was incredibly difficult. That’s why the opening scene kind of gives as a hall pass because we tell you right away, listen, we could barely make this movie. I break the fourth wall to tell you and this is why and we’re trying to make the movie to show you. So, there was so much meta behind the scenes. We were always like, ‘oh, my god. Here we go with the Selena again because we were trying to make our days, every day. So, it was also a very, very short shoot. We only shot for like, I want to say 18 days or less, and it was such an ambitious script that I (give) kudos to Lissette [Feliciano] because her unwavering belief in this story was what got the whole crew to really hustle and really come together. So for me, every day was particularly difficult. Dealing with a subject matter as abortion rights and women’s rights and having a friend go through that as a woman, it’s incredibly difficult. It hits quite a chord and a nerve. It’s not something I haven’t seen before. Going through that and doing the research and understanding what it was for women back then and understanding that it’s still going on today was incredibly harrowing and incredibly difficult. We were shooting at this abandoned hospital and we were shooting in a real ward for that. So, it was really, really, I don’t know what the right for this [is] because difficult doesn’t even catch it. However, it allowed us to be in that space. It allowed us to really drop in to the misery that that situation is and kind of drop into that. So, yeah, it was challenging but at the same time beautiful because we were able to go there.”

LORENZA IZZO BIOGRAPHY: PERSONAL LIFE

Izzo currently resides in Los Angeles, California, with her wife, Sophie Tabet. She married famed American actor, producer and director Eli Roth in November 2014 on the Chilean beach town Zapallar. However, they wound up filing for divorce in 2018, and it was finalized one year later. 

In an online interview with Canadian actress Emily Hampshire for the 2020 Pride Month, Izzo publicly came out as pansexual. Earlier this year, Izzo married her girlfriend, writer and film director Sophie Tabet.