#144 | Kamala Lopez

Today’s podcast is all about Kamala Lopez. After a ten-year hiatus to get the Equal Rights Amendment ratified to the U.S. Constitution Kamala Lopez is back in the business with new episodes of Tim Robinson’s "I Think You Should Leave, and "Interior Chinatown" filmed this past season.

Over her long career, the award-winning bilingual actress has starred in over thirty-five feature films and seventy+ TV shows, across all genres (comedy/drama; film/TV). Born in New York City to a mother from Madras, India and a Venezuelan father, Lopez lived with her parents in Caracas until the age of fourteen, studying in British and American schools. While still in high school, and studying acting at Herbert Berghof Studio in Manhattan, Ms. Lopez was cast in CTW's "Sesame Street" as Mercedes, Maria's cousin, a role she portrayed for two seasons before she was accepted to Yale University where she majored in Theatre Studies and Philosophy. Some of the highlights of Ms. Lopez's extensive television career include: groundbreaking television like "It's Garry Shandling's Show", "Hill Street Blues" and the Amnesty International sponsored episode of "21 Jump St."; opposite Christine Lahti and Ruben Blades in "Crazy From The Heart"; opposite Glenn Close in Stones For Ibarra; hosting "Wired Science" with Chris Hardwicke for PBS. Recurring roles include on the hit NBC show "Medium" as attorney Kristine Romney; on Showtime's critically acclaimed series, "Resurrection Blvd." as artist Sulinda Serrano; as Lisa Vidal's sister, Connie, "The Division" as army nurse Susanna Lozada on "Tour of Duty" and as prostitute/informant Carlita the CBS series "The Handler." More than sixty episodic guest leads include “Hacks,” “Mayans MC,” "Black Jesus", "24", "Alias", "JAG," "Miami Vice" and "NYPD Blue" among many others.

The Equal Rights Amendment:
Kamala has been the Keynote or Featured Speaker in venues as disparate as the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery, the United Nations, The National Arts  Club, at the YaleWomen Global Conference and Stanford Law School. Kamala has appeared as herself on multiple television, radio and cable networks including NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox, BBC, CNN, PBS, Telemundo, Univision, NPR, KPFK, WBAI, KIIS and many more. To learn more about Kamala: https://www.kamalalopez.com/