Rene lavan biography
Rene Lavan is a Cuban-American actor.
Early life.!
Rene Lavan Is A Star Of Stage, Screen … And Now Zoom
By Christine Dolen
ArtburstMiami.com
Rene Lavan is an actor with range, charismatic sensitivity and the kind of evolutionary ability that buoys a long career.
The likelihood of achieving crossover success in such a glamorous world would probably have seemed unfathomable at the most dramatic moment of his young life in 1980.
That’s when 11-year-old Rene Lavandera, his parents and younger brother Rey left Cuba for a new life in Miami during the Mariel boatlift.
Born in 1968 in Artemisa, southwest of Havana, Lavan spent each Sunday through Friday during his Cuban childhood at a school where ideological lessons, working the fields and military training constituted the curriculum.
But on one memorable day, his parents tricked him into leaving school by saying his grandmother was in the hospital.
“They took a cab to the place you had to be to take the boat, and you had to be very discreet,” Lavan remembers, his voice growing th