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Evelina Fernández is an American playwright and actress from Los Angeles. Early life and education [ edit ] Fernández is a second generation Mexican-American.
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 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.
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
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.
Jan 5, 2017 · Playwright and actress Evelina Fernández, a founding member of Los Angeles’ Latino Theater Company, was still in college when she was cast in the original Zoot Suit. “I’m not being overly dramatic when I say, ‘It changed my life,’” she said. “It set me on the path of making theatre my life’s work.”
