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When Lorenza was 18, she landed her first major campaign: the face of Colcci in Chile —a Brazilian label, which Gisele Bündchen also represented. "It's a very hard job, it requires a lot of time and effort, and complete surrender of yourself, kind of the way acting does," she explains. "It taught me what a real career can feel like at such a young age." The rush she felt being on the runway made it all worth it for her. "There is a lot of adrenaline when performing in front of a crowd, which is what I love doing." Lorenza wanted to do something different with her life and acting was a natural evolution from modeling as they both put her in the spotlight, which she loved. "At a very young age, I really enjoyed being the center of attention, making people laugh, and performing in every way possible," she says. She enjoyed drama and theater in school, and discovered that acting came natural to her. "I lied a lot as a child," she confesses. "I loved making up stories...I even made up that the Spice Girls were my aunts." At 19, Lorenza realized she should channel these natural instinct of hers into acting. "I loved bedazzling my real life. It wasn't just a hobby, it was something within me that I couldn't control." She had the opportunity to go to New York City and study acting at The Lee Strasberg Theater & Film Institute, so she moved to the United States. After some time in NYC, Lorenza returned to Chile and was cast in her first student film. "When I was on set is when I truly became hooked." Lorenza was studying journalism at the time, but knew acting is what she was meant to do. "I'm meant to live on a set." It didn't take long for Lorenza to start making a name for herself in the film industry. Her first major role was in the Chilean film, Que Pena Tu Boda, which premiered in 2011. The following year, at the age of 20, she landed her first English-speaking role in the movie, Aftershock. "It was a really difficult, physically-demanding shoot," says Lorenza. She has shot in various locations, under different budgets, and has learned that no matter the stresses of set life, she truly enjoys the experience —the good and the bad.