Lymari Nadal is a Puerto Rican actress, producer, and scriptwriter, who has worked in multiple American television series and movies. While she started her career in Hollywood in 2002, not much is known about her childhood or marriage and subsequent separation from Hollywood actor, director, producer, and activist Edward James Olmos. She is perhaps most notable for her role opposite Denzel Washington in the American biographical crime movie, ‘American Gangster’. In recognition of the actor's work, she, along with her co-stars in the movie, were nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, for the Screen Actors Guild awards. While she has no children of her own, she is stepmother to Olmos's two children.