Fernanda Urrejola

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Summary

Fernanda Urrejola is a Chilean actor, screenwriter, and producer whose work includes Narcos: Mexico, Cry Macho, and the film The Cow Who Sang a Song into the Future, which she co-wrote. Her screen work spans crime drama and family stories; in discussing Cry Macho, she described its treatment of machismo and the perspective of its male writer and star. Urrejola has publicly supported marriage equality through a Fundación Iguales campaign and has spoken about loving people regardless of gender while rejecting fixed labels for her sexuality. She has also described herself as an activist for human rights, children, and the environment, and shared her childhood abuse experience hoping it would help others; no partisan campaigning is on record.