Lorenza Francesca Izzo Parsons (born September 19, 1989 in Santiago, Chile) is a Chilean actress and model. She has Italian ancestry from her father. Along with him, she immigrated to the US at age twelve. Her mother and sister are also models.
Izzo became known for her roles in Aftershock and The Green Inferno, meeting Eli Roth on the set of the former, who she then married. However, they later divorced. Izzo has come out since as pansexual in an interview with her friend (and fellow pansexual) Emily Hampshire, a Canadian actress, saying Hampshire's scene in Schitt's Creek discussing pansexuality made Izzo discover this about herself. Izzo married director and writer Sophie Tabet in March 2023.
Selected filmography:
- Aftershock (2012) as Kylie (main role)
- The Green Inferno (2013) as Justine (main role)
- The Stranger (2014) as Ana (main role)
- Knock Knock (2015) as Genesis (main role)
- Feed The Beast (2016) as Pilar Herrera (main role; 10 episodes)
- Holidays (2016) as Jean (main role)
- Casual 2018) as Tathiana (supporting role; 6 episodes)
- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) as Francesca Capucci (supporting role)
- Penny Dreadful: City of Angels (2020) as Santa Muerte (supporting role; 8 episodes)
- Hacks (2021-) as Ruby (guest role)
- Women Is Losers (2021) as Celina Guerrera (lead role)
- The Aviary (2022) as Blair (main role)
- Confess, Fletch (2022) as Angela de Grassi, a.k.a. Andy (main role)
- Panhandle (2022-) as Vida Perez Prescott (main role)
Tropes in her work include:
- Actor-Shared Background:
- She's played multiple Latina women, though not Chileans.
- Additionally she's also played characters with Italian heritage like her.
- Big Ol' Eyebrows: She has large, prominent eyebrows which help draw attention to her characters' faces.
- Creator Couple: She acted in films by her ex-husband Eli Roth multiple times (they met on the first one while it was being filmed).
- Fake American: Due to having lived in the US for most of her life, she's largely played Americans.
- Ms. Fanservice: She's a beautiful woman (who has modeled in the past) and her roles sometimes showcase this through having her character in her underwear or a bikini, while she appeared topless in The Green Inferno and Knock Knock (however the context had made this less than appealing).
- Queer Character, Queer Actor: She's played lesbians in Hemlock Grove, Casual and Hacks (in the former two cases before coming out as pansexual).