Migdia Chinea Varela

Migdia Chinea-Varela (a.k.a. Migdia Chinea) is a Cuban-American screenwriter and actress. She was a writer for the TV series The Incredible Hulk and Superboy, and has contributed episodes to other series. Since 1971 she has appeared in several TV and movie roles.

Migdia Chinea Varela.

Chinea was the first Latina to join the Writers Guild of America West (WGAw), and founded its Latino Writers Committee. She has written and spoken publicly about discrimination in the U.S. entertainment industry, testifying before Congress and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in October 1997.

Chinea and other Hispanic members of the Writers Guild filed a discrimination lawsuit against the WGAw and CBS after learning that, under terms of an affirmative-action program, she was expected to work for CBS for less than the minimum rate set by the Writer's Guild. In 1999 the $138 million class-action lawsuit was dismissed without a trial..

The daughter of Cuban émigrés, Migdia Chinea Varela was raised in south Florida. She began performing ballet and jazz dance in her teens. Her on-camera acting career began with a role in a 1971 episode of Mannix. Her volunteer work in the Los Angeles area earned an award from the city's Human Relations Commission in 1988.

In 1999 Chinea graduated cum laude from UCLA. As of 2006 she lives in a historic neighborhood in Glendale, California.

Migdia Chinea is the great-grandaughter of Cuban Colonel José Luis Chinea Maimó, who was in charge of the Air Force in the Province of Havana under Cuban President Carlos Prío Socarrás and Chief of the Armed Forces, General Genobebo Pérez Dámera. Carlos Prío Socarrás (July 14, 1903 – April 5, 1977) was the 16th President of Cuba from 1948 until he was deposed by a military coup led by Fulgencio Batista on March 10, 1952, three months before new elections were to be held.

External link

• Migdia Chinea Varela at IMDb

References

• Chinea-Varela, Migdia. "My Life as a 'Two-Fer'." Newsweek (December 26, 1988).