Karla Souza

Karla Susana Olivares Souza (born December 11, 1985)[2] is a Mexican-American actress known for her roles as Laurel Castillo on the ABC legal drama series How to Get Away with Murder and Marina Hayworth on the ABC sitcom Home Economics.

Souza was born in Mexico City, Mexico, on December 11, 1985, to a Chilean father and a Mexican mother, Mónica. Her grandmother, Elba Silva, was an assistant cook for the Rockefeller family for 20 years after immigrating to New York City from Chile in the 1960s.[1][3] Having lived in Aspen, Colorado, until she was eight years old, Souza credits her grandmother’s immigration to the United States as the reason she has an American passport