- Guillermo Gómez-Peña was born in 1955 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He is an actor and writer, known for A Song Often Played on the Radio (2019), 100 Ways to Cross the Border (2022) and The Lemon Grove Incident (1985).
- SpouseEmily Hicks(1988 - ?)
- Writer and experimental artist who uses various ways - essays, performance pieces, poetry, radio performances - to challenge restricted notions of "national culture" and "Americanness." For example, in an early U.S. performance entitled "The Loneliness of the Immigrant," Gómez-Peña spent 24 hours wrapped in a batik cloth in a public elevator, where he remained still and silent as the elevator's occupants interacted with him. He moved to Los Angeles in 1978. When Gómez-Peña married Emily Hicks, the groom stood in Mexico and the bride in California as they recited their vows. In 1997, his book "The New World Border" received the American Book Award.
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