Kamala Lopez-Dawson is an American actress, screenwriter and director, who made her acting debut in the show Miami Vice as Maria Rojas, sister of crime lord Sergio Clemente, forced out of the Witness Protection Program by Federal Agent Joe Dalva (played by Albert Hall), kills her brother before a sniper kills her in the episode "Definitely Miami".

Career/Selected FilmographyEdit

Lopez-Dawson has appeared in many TV shows and movies since her Vice debut, including the following:

• Spencer: For Hire (TV, 1986, episode with Jimmy Smits and Jaime L. Sanchez)
• It's Gary Shandling's Show (TV, 1987, episode with Tony Plana)
• Born In East L.A. (1987, movie debut)
• Equal Justice (TV, 1990, with Joe Morton)
• 21 Jump Street (2 episodes, 1989-90, with Tony Plana)
• Crazy From The Heart (TV movie, 1991, with William Russ and Ruben Blades)
• Murder, She Wrote (1992, episode with Gregory Sierra and Ismael "East" Carlo)
• Clear and Present Danger (1994, with Joaquim de Almeida)
• NYPD Blue (TV, 1995, with Jimmy Smits)
• Wedding Bell Blues (1996, with Richard Edson)
• Star Trek: Voyager (TV, 2000)
• The Eddie Files (PBS series, 1995-2000, with Vincent Schiavelli)
• Alias (TV, 2002)
• Medium (3 episodes, 2005-07)
• The Intervention (2009)
• Lie To Me (2009, most recent TV appearance)
• Any Day Now (2012, most recent movie appearance)

Lopez-Dawson also produced and directed the film A Single Woman (with Karen Black), a film about the first US Congresswoman, Jeannette Rankin (1880-1973), and Lopez-Dawson is a co-founder of the indie film podcast, Fat Free Films, and is a frequent blogger on the Huffington Post.