Floriana was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, the daughter of Dennis Lima and Angela Maynard.
[3] She graduated from Fairfield Senior High School in 1999[4] and went on to study Communications at Ohio State University.
[2] After college, she worked as a production assistant at NBC affiliate WCMH-TV in Columbus, Ohio.
[9] In 2019, Lima joined the second season of ABC's A Million Little Things as military veteran and physical therapist Darcy Cooper.
Lima made one-off appearances in episodes of How I Met Your Mother (2008), Ghost Whisperer (2009), Melrose Place (2009), House (2010), In Plain Sight (2010), Franklin & Bash (2011), Psych (2014), and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2014).