Jenny Lorenzo is an American YouTuber and actress. She is mostly known for her YouTube sketches inspired by her Cuban heritage, and was one of the co-founders of

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's Pero Like.

Career

2016: ''Pero Like'' and ''We Are Mitú''

In early 2016, Jenny Lorenzo was one of the co-founders for

's Pero Like (originally called BuzzFeed Sol). Lorenzo and Brittany Ashley appeared in small roles for "Gente-fied", a mini-webseries produced by

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(which later became a

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series in 2020). BuzzFeed Motion Pictures terminated both staff members for violating their contract on July 10, 2016. Even though both Lorenzo and Ashley worked on the Netflix series in their free time, they were not authorized to work with other companies without prior permission. Lorenzo's termination sparked conversations on the need for BuzzFeed staff to unionize. It also sparked the trend of "Why I Left BuzzFeed" videos, where people explain why they decided to quit their job at BuzzFeed.

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, The Try Guys (left BuzzFeed in 2018), and

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are known for this. After this event, Lorenzo started producing videos for We Are Mitú.

2017–present: ''YouTube''

Lorenzo quit producing videos with We Are Mitú. She started making videos for her

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channel that involves her Cuban heritage, such as her iconic "Abuela" character. Lorenzo started voice acting a recurring character named Lupe Gonzales, for

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's Latin-American show: ''

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''. She is one of the hosts of the weekly webseries, "What's Up, Disney+" with Andre Meadows. She also co-hosts a podcast called "Hyphenated" with

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, where they discuss "Latin identity in real life and in the media". Lorenzo's voice acts as five recurring characters for ''

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''. Lorenzo also voiced a character for

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, this is her first time voice acting a character for

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Filmography

Television

Webseries

Podcasts

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lorenzo, Jenny Living people American film actresses American people of Cuban descent American television actresses American women comedians Comedians from Miami YouTubers from Miami