# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lourdes-portillo
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:31:00.088Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lourdes-portillo"
name: "Lourdes Portillo"
slug: "lourdes-portillo"
description: "Lourdes Portillo was a Mexican film director, producer, and writer. The political perspectives of Portillo's films have been described as \"nuanced\" and versed with a point of view balanced by her experience as a lesbian and Chicana woman. Portillo films have been widely studied and analyzed, particularly by scholars in the field of Chicano studies."
tagline: "Mexican filmmaker (1943–2024)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lourdes_Portillo_con_el_premio_del_XIII_Festival_de_Cine_y_Derechos_Humanos_de_San_Sebasti%C3%A1n_(02).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1943-11-11"
deathDate: "2024-04-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.4
  momentum:             0.4166666666666666
  historical:           5.275666666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0692409/"
    handle:    "nm0692409"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.lourdesportillo.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lourdes_Portillo"
    title: "Lourdes Portillo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%BE%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%88"
    title: "لورديس پورتيلو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lourdes_Portillo"
    title: "Lourdes Portillo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lourdes_Portillo"
    title: "Lourdes Portillo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B1%DA%88%DB%8C%D8%B3_%D9%BE%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%B9%DB%8C%D9%84%D9%88"
    title: "لورڈیس پورٹیلو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4308868"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1064968"
    title: "Lourdes Portillo"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump