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N ATA L I E
BACKSTORY: Multi-hyphenate talent who keeps busy directing and making art when not
starring in hit television shows and films (and is also not one of the hosts of Today)
FROM: Florida, before briefly living in New York and now Los Angeles
YOU MIGHT KNOW HER FROM: Her recurring role as Lucy—the significant other of Aziz Ansari’s
character Tom Haverford—on Parks and Recreation
NOW: Appearing on the FOX sitcom The Grinder as Claire, a new associate at the law firm
where Fred Savage and Rob Lowe’s characters work
MORALES
Morales ended up enrolling in a
nearby high school, narrowly securing
a last-minute spot. Once there, she
By Jessica Jardine
Photo by Catie Laffoon
signed up for drama class on a whim. As
she puts it, “that was that.” The class
cinephile and Hollywood history buff—
crystallized something in Morales, who
her number one idol is Buster Keaton—
had always put on magic shows, plays, and
which means she absolutely revels in
choreographed dances with her cousins.
the time she gets to spend on set with
“Cubans are, just by nature, entertainers,
Tinseltown icons Lowe and costar Fred
but I never saw it as a career for some
Savage. “What I enjoy most are the
reason,” she says. “That was the first time
stories,” Morales says. “There’s a reason
that I thought, ‘Oh! Maybe this is what
[Rob’s] the guy who has written