- Her daughter, Dasany Kristal Gonzalez, played a 14-year-old version of Polanco's character, Daya Diaz, on the fifth season of "Orange Is the New Black (2013)".
- She was working at a hospital and attending nursing school when she was offered the part on "Orange Is the New Black (2013)." She went to her audition in scrubs.
- She graduated with a Bachelor's in Psychology from Hunter College, New York, in 2008.
- She was arrested for assault on a teenager in 2015. The charges were dropped, however, after police determined the allegations were part of an extortion plot by a young neighbor.
- She has two children: a daughter born when Polanco was 18 and a son born two years later.
- She had wanted to be an actress from an early age but believed she wouldn't have success due to her curvy figure.
- She was born in the Dominican Republic but grew up in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
- She didn't start acting until she was twenty-eight years old.
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