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Gloria Laino

Grandma Nielsen

Gloria Laino is best known for her role as "The Mexican," an insane asylum lunatic in the FX award-winning hit drama series American Horror Story: Asylum; and a Satan worshiper in Season 8, Apocalypse.

Raised in Puerto Rico, she then spent her young adult years in Jordan, where she learned to speak fluent Arabic. She has Arabic-speaking roles in the hit comedy Superior Donuts, directed by James Burrows, and in recurring episodes of Michael Bay's TNT series, The Last Ship.

Some recent credits include recurring roles in Jane the Virgin, Goliath, and What We Do In The Shadows.

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