Carmen Aguirre is a Chilean-born Canadian actress and writer. She plays a prominent role in ''
Endgame
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''.
Early in her life, she lived and worked as a member of the
Chilean Resistance
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* Chilean people
* Chilean Spanish
* Chilean culture
* Chilean cuisine
* Chilean Americans
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*List of Chileans
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.
Career
Her 2011 book ''Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter'' was a memoir of her childhood, which she spent moving around regularly with her parents, who were part of the Chilean Resistance against
Augusto Pinochet
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. The book was selected for the 2012 edition of
CBC Radio
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's ''
Canada Reads
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; it was announced as the winner of the competition on February 9, 2012.
Aguirre has written over 20 stage plays to date, including ''In a Land Called I Don't Remember'', ''Chile Con Carne'', ''The Trigger'' and ''The Refugee Hotel''. Her comments on "cancel culture" were published in ''Rungh Magazine''.