Evelina Fernßndez - Turner Classic Movies

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Evelina Fernández is an actress, producer, and writer working in film, television, and theater. The native Angelino's most significant roles have been collaborations with industry stars from the Chicano community. She made her TV debut on a 1987 episode of the cop drama "Hill Street Blues," and then, the following year, began an eight-episode run as Juanita Herrera over the first two sea...

Filmography

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Go For Sisters (2013)

Gabriela (2001)

Luminarias (1999)

Adios East Los (1999)

Hollywood Confidential (1997)

A Million to Juan (1994)

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Come To The Stable (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Sisters From France

Come To The Stable (1949) -- (Movie Clip) You Can Take Your Wings Off

Biography

Evelina Fernández is an actress, producer, and writer working in film, television, and theater. The native Angelino's most significant roles have been collaborations with industry stars from the Chicano community. She made her TV debut on a 1987 episode of the cop drama "Hill Street Blues," and then, the following year, began an eight-episode run as Juanita Herrera over the first two seasons of "Roseanne," the hit sitcom with a decidedly working class character base. Over the course of the '90s, Fernández alternately took on bit player parts in Hollywood and meatier roles in smaller, Chicano-led productions. The former included a role as "Latin Woman" in the sci-fi thriller "Flatliners," an "Airline Employee" in "Postcards from the Edge" (starring Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine), and brief guest stints on the soap "Knots Landing" and the show-biz comedy "The Larry Sanders Show" on television. In 1994, she had a more substantial supporting role in the Paul Rodriguez-starring comedy "A Million to Juan," a comedic take on the Mexican immigrant story, and in 1997, she had another key part in the Edward James Olmos-starring television crime drama, "Hollywood Confidential," which earned her an ALMA Award for Outstanding Actress in a Mini-Series. In 2000, Fernández finally claimed a starring role--albeit in a film for which she penned the screenplay and served as executive producer--as Andrea in the romantic comedy "Luminarias," which co-starred Scott Bakula and Cheech Marin. The film was directed by her husband, José Luis Valenzuela.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Go For Sisters (2013)

Gabriela (2001)

Luminarias (1999)

Adios East Los (1999)

Hollywood Confidential (1997)

A Million to Juan (1994)

American Me (1992)

Flatliners (1990)

Postcards From The Edge (1990)

Airline Employee

Writer (Feature Film)

Luminarias (1999)

Cast (Special)

The 4th Annual Desi Awards (1992)

Life Events

Videos

Come To The Stable (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Sisters From France Jumped by director Henry Koster from the idyllic village where they first arrived, the sisters (Loretta Young and Celeste Holm as Margaret and Scolastica), seeking land for their school, appear in the offices of a New England bishop (Basil Ruysdael), received by his aide (Regis Toomey), in Come To The Stable, 1949.

Come To The Stable (1949) -- (Movie Clip) You Can Take Your Wings Off Straight from the credits, director Henry Koster doing nothing to dispel the other worldly aspects of the setting, nuns Margaret (Loretta Young) and Scolastica (Celeste Holm) meet spacey New England artist Amelia (Elsa Lanchester) and her models (Gary Pagett as "Johnnie"), in Come To The Stable, 1949, from the Clare Booth Luce story.

Come To The Stable (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Santa Anita French nuns in New York (Loretta Young as Margaret, Celeste Holm as Scolastica) undeterred by meatball Sam (Mike Mazurki) as they seek audience with kingpin Rossi (Thomas Gomez), who owns the land they want for their school, Marion Martin his manicurist, in Henry Koster's Come To The Stable, 1949.

Opposite Sex, The (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Open Season On Husbands Big scene for Joan Collins as showgirl Crystal (drawn from the Joan Crawford role in the 1939 original The Women), with trouper Pat (Carolyn Jones, Dean Jones the stage-hand), Leslie Nielsen her target and Dolores Gray and Joan Blondell catching on, in the musical re-make, The Opposite Sex, 1956.

Opposite Sex, The (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Four Million Square Males Ann Sheridan as playwright Amanda off to a crisp start, opening the Fay and Michael Kanin musical adaptation of Clare Boothe Luce's "The Women," also introducing Dolores Gray as Sylvia, Alice Pearce as manicurist Olga and Joan Blondell in the dark, in The Opposite Sex, 1956, starring June Allyson.

Opposite Sex, The (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Young Man With A Horn At a party flashing back, and convinced that Steven (Leslie Nielsen) is cheating, June Allyson (as singer Kay) "remembers" what is actually an original written by George Stoll and Ralph Freed for this picture, featuring Harry James, in the re-make of The Women, The Opposite Sex, 1956.

Women, The (1939) -- (Movie Clip) That's French For Love On the ladies' train to Reno seeking divorces, the Countess (Mary Boland) introduces herself to Mary (Norma Shearer) and recruits Miriam (Paulette Goddard), in George Cukor's The Women, 1939.

Women, The (1939) -- (Movie Clip) You're A Blithering Coward Peggy (Joan Fontaine) is daffy, having just reconciled with her husband on the phone, prompting Miriam (Paulette Goddard) to give Mary (Norma Shearer) an overdue talking-to, at the Reno dude ranch in George Cukor's The Women, 1939.

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