Erica Gimpel

Personal context

Summary

Erica Gimpel is an actor and singer known for playing Coco Hernandez on Fame and for recurring roles on Profiler and ER. Her screen and stage work ranges from ensemble drama to stories about women’s lives and interracial relationships. Gimpel has described peace as a cause she actively promotes and has produced benefit concerts focused on women’s rights, unhoused families, and racially motivated violence against people of color; she is also reported as an active SGI-USA member. No public partisan campaigning or DEI role is on record.