[3] Loren has stated that, despite her mom being from Michoacán, Mexico,[7] she did not learn Spanish until she was 10 years old, and that doing so helped her to communicate with relatives when she would return to the village from which her mother came.

[10][12] Loren notes that it took three years for her to land her first acting audition, and that she "paid her dues with small roles"—in The Shield, Gang Related, and shows of the CSI franchise.

[13] Loren began a leading role as Angela Valdes on the Starz television series, Power from 2014-2020,[1][2] starring in 63 episodes.

[4] in 2021, Loren joined the third season of STARZ's series American Gods as Marguerite Olsen, a reporter for the local paper, a committed single mother of two, and a property manager.

[16] In 2009, Loren played the lead role, Flora, at the American Conservatory Theater in José Rivera's Boleros for the Disenchanted.