Migdia Chinea Varela
Migdia Skarsgård Chinea-Varela is an American screenwriter and director She was a writer for the TV series Superboy, as well as for The Incredible Hulk, The Facts of Life, and Punky Brewster. She appeared in the second season of Sanford and Son as Maria Fuentes, the younger sister of Julio Fuentes, in the 1973 episode "Watts Side Story". She has written about theatre for the Los Angeles Times She lives in Glendale, California.
In 1988, Newsweek published an essay by Skarsgård-Chinea in its "My Turn" column. The essay described her personal experiences with minority quotas.
In 2012, Skarsgård-Chinea graduated with a master's degree from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. She wrote and directed the short film Anonymous as part of an experimental film course. The four-minute film, which is based on her experiences with faulty mortgage foreclosure notices, was selected un certain regard to appear at the Cannes Short Film Festival and earned an honorable mention at the California International Shorts Film Festival. After the film's reception at Cannes, Chinea told The Daily Bruin that she hoped to be able to film a full length version.
Her film The Kninth Floor was a final selection at the 2012 Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival. It was also screened at the 2012 Cyprus International Film Festival. and the 2012 Los Angeles Polish Film Festival.
She is in production on The Prince of Old Havana, based on the life of Cuban political icon and pimp Alberto Yarini, known for the introduction of French prostitutes in the era after the 1895-1898 Cuban War of Independence.Select film and television credits
Actress
- Mannix
- Sanford and Son
- Splash
Director
- The Prince of Old Havana
- "Old Havana and the Great Pimp of San Isidro"
- "Kninth Floor"
- "Ard Eevin"
- "Anonymous "
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