Biography: Minerva Gomez was born in Long Island, New York to immigrant parents from El Salvador. She moved to Charleston, South Carolina when she was 3 years old. On her third year of nursing school at the Medical University of South Carolina, Minerva had an epiphany while volunteering in Morocco. This epiphany led to her dropping out of nursing school in order to pursue her lifelong passion of acting. She is based in New York City.