Background
Lopez was born in New York City and raised in Caracas, Venezuela.
Lopez was born in New York City and raised in Caracas, Venezuela.
She has appeared in such films as Any Day Now, I Heart Huckabees and Born in East Los Angeles Lopez has worked as an actor in over thirty feature films including I Heart Huckabees, Born in East Los Angeles, Deep Cover, and The Burning Season and over seventy television shows including Lie To Maine, Alias, Star Trek Voyager, New York City Police Department Blue and lieutenant"s Garry Shandling"s Show. In 2007 Lopez hosted Wired Science on Public Broadcasting Service, a production of KCET Los Angeles in association with Wired, along with comedian Chris Hardwick.
Lopez directed the Spanish language short film Ese Beso in Madrid, Spain, starring Daniel Freire and Lia Chapman. She directed A Single Woman, about the life of first United States congresswoman, Jeannette Rankin.
The film was adapted from the play of the same name, written by Jeanmarie Simpson, a relative of Lopez, and starred Simpson as Jeannette Rankin.
Lopez produced the new media series Speechless Without Writers with director George Hickenlooper during the Writers Guild of America strike of 2007. In 2009 Lopez created the European Research Area Education Project, a national media campaign to raise awareness about the Equal Rights Amendment in the United States. In October 2013, she launched a Kickstarter campaign for "Equal Means Equal" to revive public support for the European Research Area. MovieMaker Magazine said "indie director Kamala Lopez fought, wheedled and meme"d her way to 158 percent Kickstarter funding with her campaign for women"s rights doc "Equal Means Equal".
Equal Means Equal is Lopez"s documentary about the status of women in America.
Gloria Steinem appears in the film, along with more than 100 interviewees. Lopez blogs for The Huffington Post.
In January 2012, she was named one of the 21 Leaders for the 21st Century by Women"s eNews. In 2009, she was given a retrospective of her work, both as an actor and director, at the Museum of Latin American Artist
Lopez began interviewing women nationwide about how civil rights issues such as equal pay and domestic violence affect their daily lives.