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Early life and education. Fernández is a second generation Mexican-American. Fernández's grandparents immigrated to the United States in 1910 from Jalisco, to escape the Mexican Revolution. [1]
Evelina Fernández is an award-winning actor and writer of Chicano theater and film. She has starred in Flatliners, American Me, Luminarias, and many other projects, and is married to José Luis Valenzuela.
- Actress, Writer, Producer
- April 28, 1954
- Evelina Fernández
Evelina Fernández is an award-winning writer and performer who explores the U.S. Latinx experience. She has written plays, screenplays and TV shows, and was a cultural consultant for Pixar's "Coco".
Evelina Fernández is an award-winning actor and writer of Chicano theater and film. She has starred in Zoot Suit, American Me, Hollywood Confidential, and Luminarias, among others, and is married to José Luis Valenzuela.
- April 28, 1954
Apr 26, 2016 · Evelina Fernández is a longstanding Chicana teatrista, who has been involved in various aspects of theater and film making in Los Angeles —as a theater and film actress, a playwright, a film and television script writer [1], and an activist— since the late seventies.
Evelina Fernández is an award-winning artist who writes about the U.S. Latinx experience. Learn more about her work, including The Mother of Henry, a play about a Mexican immigrant mother and her son.
The Mother of Henry. In 1968, a year of watershed moments in the United States: The assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy, lunar space exploration and the Vietnam War, Connie, a single mother gets a job at Sears in Boyle Heights, an economic hub in Los Angeles where people of all cultures and nationalities shop and work.
