Patricia Velásquez is a Venezuelan actress and fashion model. According to Wikipedia: Her full name is Patricia Carola Velásquez Semprún. She is an Amerindian of Wayuu tribal ancestry, with some Spanish ancestry. She is the fifth of the six children of a couple of Latin-American teachers. In her early life, she also lived in Mexico and France...more

Patricia Velásquez is a Venezuelan actress and fashion model. According to Wikipedia: Her full name is Patricia Carola Velásquez Semprún. She is an Amerindian of Wayuu tribal ancestry, with some Spanish ancestry. She is the fifth of the six children of a couple of Latin-American teachers. In her early life, she also lived in Mexico and France. Velásquez identifies as bisexual, and dated comedian Sandra Bernhard in the mid-1990s. She is 5 ft 9½ in tall. In 2002 Velásquez founded the Wayúu Tayá Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to assisting the Wayúu, a Venezuelan indigenous group. As a teenager she worked as a model and a makeup artist, becoming addicted to prescription. She began to believe in spirituality and started taking part in religious rituals she had never considered part of her social life. During World War Two, she was sent to France so she could undergo a blood transfusion...