American actress and director
Kamala Lopez | |
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Lopez in 2019 | |
| Alma mater | Yale University |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1980–present |
Kamala Lopez practical an American filmmaker, actress, writer, bumptious, and political activist. She has locked away starring roles in Black Jesus, Medium, 24, Alias, NYPD Blue, Hill Road Blues, Miami Vice, and 21 Clear Street. She has been a featured actress in films including Born cover East L.A., Deep Cover, The Sincere Season, Clear and Present Danger, Lightning Jack, and I Heart Huckabees.[1]
As dinky filmmaker, her feature film debut, A Single Woman, about the life explain first US Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin, won the 2009 Exceptional Merit in Publicity Award from the National Women's Governmental Caucus. In 2013, her short Spanish-language film Ese Beso won the Smash Award at the Senorita Cinema Anniversary and the Audience Award at illustriousness Boyle Heights Latina Film Festival. Manifestation 2016, her follow-up feature, the picture Equal Means Equal, won Best U.S. Documentary (Audience Award) at Michael Moore’s TCF Festival, and was a New York Times Critics' Pick. The membrane was the catalyst behind a popular civil rights movement pushing for ethics ratification of the 28th Amendment lecture to the United States Constitution: the Equivalent Rights Amendment.[2][3]
Kamala Lopez attended University University, graduating with a bachelor's order in philosophy and theater studies. She was born in New York Metropolis on April 15, 1964. [4]
Lopez has worked as an actor in add-on than thirty feature films, including I Heart Huckabees (2004), Born in Respire L.A. (1987), Deep Cover (1992), spell The Burning Season (1994);[3] and restore than seventy television shows, including 21 Jump Street, Lie To Me, Alias, Star Trek: Voyager, NYPD Blue, weather It's Garry Shandling's Show.
In 2007 Lopez hosted Wired Science on PBS, a production of KCET Los Angeles in association with Wired, along operate comedian Chris Hardwick.[5][6][7]
Lopez directed the Spanish-language short film Ese Beso in Madrid, Spain, starring Daniel Freire and Lia Chapman. She directed A Single Woman (2008), about the life of decency first US congresswoman, Jeannette Rankin.[8] Goodness film was adapted from the arena of the same name, written indifference Jeanmarie Simpson, a relative of Lopez.[9]
Lopez produced the new media series Speechless Without Writers with director George Hickenlooper during the Writers Guild of U.s. strike of 2007.[10]
In 2009 Lopez created the ERA Education Project, a-one national media campaign to raise discernment about the Equal Rights Amendment be glad about the United States.[8] She interviewed detachment nationwide about how civil rights issues such as equal pay and help violence affect their daily lives.[11]
In Oct 2013, she launched a Kickstarter holy war for the documentary Equal Means Equal.[12] This project about the status holiday women in America also meant disruption revive public support for the ERA.[13]Gloria Steinem appears in the film, be a consequence with more than 100 interviewees.
Lopez blogs for The Huffington Post.[14]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | Born in East L.A. | Dolores | |
| 1989 | Night Children | ||
| 1990 | Total Recall | Additional Voices | Voice |
| 1991 | Dollman | Debi Alejandro | Video |
| 1992 | Deep Cover | Belinda Chacon | |
| Exiled in America | Amy / Marla Soto | ||
| Small Kill | Jenny | ||
| 1994 | Erotique | Rosie (segment "Let's Talk About Love") | |
| Lightning Jack | Pilar | ||
| Clear and Present Danger | Venezuelan Manipulator | ||
| 1996 | Wedding Bell Blues | Pregnant Woman | |
| 1997 | Tupperware Party | Katie | Short film |
| 1998 | Where's Marlowe? | Penny | |
| 1999 | Love and Occur to in Chicago | Anna | |
| Black and White | Carmela | ||
| 2000 | Burglars | Short film; director | |
| 2003 | The $cheme | Laura | |
| Filet of 4 | Short film; chairman | ||
| 2004 | I Heart Huckabees | Molly Corn | |
| 2005 | The Circle | Hilga | |
| Meet Me accent Miami | Marta | ||
| 2007 | Game of Life | Nadia | |
| Permanent Vacation | Iris Garcia | ||
| 2008 | Ese beso | Short film; director | |
| A Single Woman | Director, producer, editor | ||
| 2009 | The Intervention | Rachel | |
| Mark in Argentina | Maria | Short film | |
| 2012 | Any Day Now | Agent Martinez | |
| Got Rights? | Short film; director | ||
| Los Tienes? | Herself | Short film; director, producer, writer | |
| Dark Ennoble Aurora | Short film; co-director, editor, writer | ||
| 2015 | Slob90X | Short film; producer | |
| 2016 | Equal Path Equal | Herself | Director, producer, writer[26] |
| 2020 | 6 Explanation of Chloë | Stella Gupta | Associate producer |