A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story
Official poster
Directed by	Agnieszka Holland
Produced by	Fran Rosati
Written by	Shelley Evans
Starring	J.D. Pardo Mercedes Ruehl
Music by	Jan A.P. Kaczmarek
Cinematography	David Frazee
Editing by	Michael John Bateman
Distributed by	Lifetime Television
Release date(s)	June 19, 2006
Running time	96 min.
Country
Language	English
Official website
IMDb profile

A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story is a 2006 LGBT biography made-for-tv movie directed by award-winning director Agnieszka Holland and aired on Lifetime Television. The story documents the real life of Gwen Araujo, born Edward Araujo, Jr., a transgender teenager who was murdered after it was discovered by acquaintances that she had male genitalia. Plenty of the court case involving her murder is shown besides Gwen's life and her family.

The movie stars J.D. Pardo as Eddie/Gwen, Mercedes Ruehl as her mother, and Avan Jogia as her brother, Danny. It premiered on the Lifetime Television network in the US on June 19, 2006 and was re-shown as a special on May 22, 2008.

Contents 1 Cast 2 Awards 3 See also 4 External links

[edit] Cast

• J.D. Pardo as Edward Araujo, Jr./Gwen Araujo
• Mercedes Ruehl as Sylvia Guerrero
• Leela Savasta as Chita Araujo
• Avan Jogia as Danny Araujo
• Greyston Holt as Jaron Nabors
• Nolan Gerard Funk as Michael Magidson
• Neil Denis as Jose Merel
• Jorge Vargas as Jason Cazares
• Henry Darrow as Papi
• Ivan De Leon as Berto

[edit] Awards

A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story won the award for Outstanding Movie for Television at the 2007 GLAAD Media Awards.

[edit] See also

• Gwen Araujo
• Boys Don't Cry, the story of Brandon Teena
• Transphobia
• Transgender in film and television
• Queer Cinema
• List of transgender-related topics

[edit] External links

• Official site
• A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story at the Internet Movie Database
• Rolling Stone article about the real life events