Nadine Velazquez

Nadine Velazquez is an American actress and model. She portrays Valeria aka Butter Pecan on ABC's Queens.

Biography
Velázquez was born in the city of Chicago in the state of Illinois. She was born in Puerto Rico and is of Puerto Rican ancestry. She got a Bachelor of Arts in marketing from Columbia College Chicago in 2001 after graduating from Notre Dame High School for Girls.

Velázquez has appeared in print ads, television shows, and feature films. Her first acting appearance was as a drive-through lady in a McDonald's commercial. She was set to play Maricruz Delgado, Fernando Sucre's fiancée, in the Fox television series Prison Break, but instead landed the part of Catalina Aruca in the NBC comedy My Name Is Earl. Her first film roles were in the films War, starring Jet Li and Jason Statham, and Husband for Hire, an Oxygen Network original television film.