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- Height5′ 8″ (1.73 m)
- Lina Esco is an American actress, producer, director and activist. Esco is perhaps most well-known for her series regular role on the SONY/CBS television series S.W.A.T created by Shawn Ryan. She can most recently be seen in the independent features DOORS and FULL-DRESS with Christopher Abbott. She began acting in 2005 with the debut of independent feature film LONDON in which she acted alongside Chris Evans and Jessica Biel. Esco's debut television role was as Jimmy Smits' daughter in the series CANE in 2007. Some of her other credits include LOL, FREE THE NIPPLE, KINGDOM and FLAKED.
Esco also helped produce and direct two PSA's for the 2009 dolphin documentary THE COVE which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2010.
Her activism and desire to fight for gender equality led her to launch the largest online movements of the century, FREE THE NIPPLE. In 2014, Esco directed and starred in a film titled FREE THE NIPPLE which was acquired by IFC and Netflix in 2015. She has been featured in Time, Variety, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Hollywood Reporter, Entertainment Weekly, Vogue, Huffington Post and CNN for the global outreach the campaign has successfully achieved.
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- Was among over 80 women who accused Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment or assault in October 2017.
- Lina Esco produced and directed several PSA's for the Academy Award-winning Best Documentary of 2009, The Cove, entitled, "My Friend is..." to bring awareness to the annual slaughter of dolphins in Taiji, Japan. She also directed another PSA "Kids Speak Out Against Captivity" for Ric O'Barry from The Cove to end the captivity of dolphins in Aquariums around the globe.
- Lina Esco is the founder and film director of Free The Nipple. She founded the Free The Nipple movement in 2012 when the feature film by the same name she directed in 2012 was nearly impossible to release. Free the Nipple is about men and women coming together for gender equality. The nipple was the Trojan horse to help start the real dialogue about gender equality. She finally sold her film to IFC for theatrical distribution in Dec. 2014. The film was also acquired by Netflix and was released in June of 2015 on Netflix.
- I have always been a huge fan of the art of cinema and expressing myself through it excites me more than anything in this world!
- I love Waking people up, getting them off their paradigm. Robopathology has taken over this world, Humans act like robots.
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