User:Stephaniesiomara

Stephanie Siomara (born December 31, 1991) is an American photographer, actress, singer, and model. She has worked with major brands like Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, Apple, and Nike. Her photography has been published in Vice Magazine and Vogue.

Siomara was born in Paterson, New Jersey. Both of her parents are of Latino/Hispanic descent. Her mother was born in Puerto Rico and her father was born in Colombia. Her paternal grandmother and her maternal grandfather, were Catholic and raised her in the church. They moved to Brooklyn, New York in 1962 and then to Paterson, New Jersey a year later, where her grandmother worked as a seamstress.

Siomara's parents married in 1987 and divorced six years later, in 1993, when she was two. She lived with her mother in New Jersey and then moved to North Carolina at age fourteen and spent summers with her father in Los Angeles, California.

Siomara attended Manchester Regional High School while in New Jersey, Hollywood High School for Creative Arts in Los Angeles, and St. Mary's School for Girls in Raleigh, NC where she graduated in 2009. Siomara began studying that year at the Literature conservatory at Winthrop University with a full scholarship. She left college after a year and moved to Los Angeles to work in films.