Maria-Elena Laas was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico on 28 November 1983 and raised in Saudi Arabia and Japan.
Laas started modeling career at 13. She has participated in over 90 international commercials and print campaigns, including Miller Lite, Carlsberg, Coors Lite, Budweiser, Ford, and Target. Laas's acting film career includes the comedy The Hot Chick (2002) and indies 'Suffering Man's Charity (2007), Kill the Habit (2010), Lunatics, Lovers and Poets (2009) and Airplane Disasters (2007). She has also had other roles on the sitcoms Grounded for Life and Pacific Blue. She currently resides in Southern California.
In 2006 she also appears opposite George Clooney in a Nespresso commercial filmed by Michel Gondry.
