Monica Raymund Ria Torres Lie to me Fox

Monica Raymund is a stage performer and actress best known for playing Ria Torres, a "natural" at deception detection, in Lie to Me. 

 
A graduate of Shorecrest Preparatory School in St. Petersburg, Florida, Raymund graduated from the Juilliard School in New York City. Her father, Steve Raymund, is board chairman and retired CEO of Tech Data Corp., a Clearwater-based distributor of computer components and software. Her mother, Sonia, is "a community volunteer [and the] co-founder of the Soulful Arts Dance Academy in St. Petersburg."

Her father is a "Jewish California native" and her mother is an "immigrant from the Dominican Republic."

She also has a brother, Will.[In high school, she participated in the "Broadway Theater Project in Tampa and at the North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem