Lavrenti Lopes was born and raised in Mumbai, India. He was 8 years old when he did his first play at an annual summer camp. Until then, he had wanted to be everything from a doctor, lawyer to a ticket conductor. Always an indecisive kid, Lavrenti knew at that very instant that acting was what he wanted to do. For it was the only profession where he could play all those roles. Coming from a lower middle class family with no ties to the entertainment world, the idea was extinguished by his parents. For Lavrenti though, it was only shelved. At 17, while still in college, he would lie about his age and get a job. At 18, he would quit college to work full time. At 19, he would get promoted. And at 20, holding the designation of a Team Coach with a multi-national company and having saved enough to give him a good headstart, he would quit the corporate world to pursue acting full time. In India, Lavrenti dabbled in theatre, commercials and print while working with an improv group. But the thirst for knowledge and the yearning to be good would lead him to New York to train at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. He landed his first feature "subHysteria" while still in school. He has since played the lead in 3 other feature films namely "Afghan Hound","Love, Lies and Seeta" and "Desperate Endeavors," all of which are due for release in early 2012. Lavrenti has also modeled for brand like Microsoft, Axe Deodorants, Zip Car, Morgan Stanley, Charles Schwabb and done numerous TV commercials for brands like TATA True Roots, NY Lottery, Optimum (Cablevision).
In the August of this year Lavrenti would move to Los Angeles. Barely settled, he would get his first TV credit in the new ABC show "Don't trust the B**** in Apartment 23" in a scene with James Van Der Beek (Dawson's Creek). He would also star in an episode of "The Wedding Band" on TBS alongside Melora Hardin (The Office), Brian Austin Green (Beverly Hills 90210) and Harold Perrineau (Lost)