Carmen Aguirre

Carmen Aguirre is a Chilean-born Canadian actress and writer. She plays a prominent role in Endgame.

Early in her life, she lived and worked as a member of the Chilean Resistance. Carmen was raped by the "Paper Bag Killer" which was the alias of John Horace Oughton, a prolific sexual predator who assaulted more than 100 women and children between 1977 and 1985.

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. The book was selected for the 2012 edition of CBC Radio's Canada Reads, defended by musician Shad; 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.

In 2026, Aguirre endorsed Avi Lewis in that year's federal NDP leadership race.

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