Kamala Lopez

Kamala Lopez
Lopez in 2019
Alma materYale University
OccupationActress
Years active1980–present

Kamala Lopez is an American filmmaker, actress, writer, director, and political activist. She has had starring roles in Black Jesus, Medium, 24, Alias, NYPD Blue, Hill Street Blues, Miami Vice, and 21 Jump Street. She has been a featured actress in films including Born in East L.A., Deep Cover, The Burning Season, Clear and Present Danger, Lightning Jack, and I Heart Huckabees.[1]

As a filmmaker, her feature film debut, A Single Woman, about the life of first US Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin, won the 2009 Exceptional Merit in Media Award from the National Women's Political Caucus. In 2013, her short Spanish-language film Ese Beso won the Jury Award at the Senorita Cinema Festival and the Audience Award at the Boyle Heights Latina Film Festival. In 2016, her follow-up feature, the documentary 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 film was the catalyst behind a national civil rights movement pushing for the ratification of the 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution: the Equal Rights Amendment.[2][3]

  1. ^ "'Equal Means Equal' Director Kamala Lopez On The Hard Truths Of Her Gender Equality Documentary – Springboard by Kristy Puchko, August 26, 2016". US News/Associated Press. 26 August 2016. Retrieved April 23, 2020.
  2. ^ "Lawsuit Seeks to Ease Adoption of Equal Rights Amendment - January 7, 2020". US News/Associated Press. Retrieved April 23, 2020.
  3. ^ Gonzalez, Luis Manuel (January 29, 1995). "Kamala Lopez-Dawson", La Opinión 69 (136): 1D.