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Loren Lester is an American actor in film, TV and theatre. A native of Los Angeles, he resides in New York City. In 2024 he made his Broadway debut in the Tony-nominated production of Cabaret. He is a Chita Rivera Award nominee. Prior to that, he was in the National Tour of the Tony-winning Broadway musical The Band's Visit.

He began his career as a teenager and has accumulated almost 50 years of film, stage and television credits. In his early years, he played the evil hall monitor "Fritz Hansel" in the cult classic film Rock 'n' Roll High School and he recurred for five seasons as "Roy" on The Facts of Life opposite Nancy McKeon.

Since then. Loren has appeared in more than 200 TV shows including The Orville, Curb Your Enthusiasm, I'm Dying Up Here, NCIS, The Closer, Bones, Gilmore Girls, Cold Case, Criminal Minds, Castle, Two and a Half Men, Las Vegas, etc.

He recurred for three seasons on the HBO hit comedy series Hung, directed by Academy Award winner Alexander Payne.

His favorite film role was in the Wes Craven suspense thriller Red Eye (starring Rachel McAdams)

As a voice-over artist, Loren is best known for creating the roles of "Robin" and "Nightwing" on Batman: The Animated Series (aka Batman: The Animated Series and The New Batman Adventures (aka The Adventures of Batman and Robin).

Loren is a graduate of Occidental College's theater department and has starred in dozens of plays and musicals. Loren and his wife, actress Kelly Lester, are the proud parents of three actress-daughters: Jenny, Lily and Julia Lester (Tony-nominee for Into the Woods.)

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