Actress Carla Jimenez Takes on the Lightning Round!

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The Other Pod with Chloe Aftel

Chloe Aftel

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The Other Pod is the latest venture from acclaimed visual artist Chloe Aftel. With a long career of pushing boundaries and exposing all the messy in-betweens of society, Chloe now takes her lens to a deeper level through The Other Pod.

Join Chloe for monthly inquisitions into the lives of famed creatives, activists, philosophers, writers, scholars, and more.

From rapper/activist Killer Mike to feminist philosopher Serene Khader, Chloe’s uniquely curious and empathetic way of connecting with guests furthers the throughline of all her work: how gender, identity, and sexuality create works of meaning.

With each new episode profiling unique identities and careers, Chloe bravely looks at the way self-expression can lead to freedom, how being an outsider is more universal than may appear, and what tangible strategies we can invoke in pursuit of something greater than the status quo.

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Actress Carla Jimenez Takes on the Lightning Round!

The Other Pod with Chloe Aftel

7 minutes

4 months ago

Actress Carla Jimenez Takes on the Lightning Round!

Actress Carla Jimenez has been acting and singing since childhood. This year, she’s made her Broadway Debut as Pancha in the original cast of “Real Women Have Curves: The Musical.” She joins host Chloe Aftel on The Other Pod to discuss her journey to where she is now and all the ups and downs along the way. They discuss her early career, including breakout roles in “Nacho Libre” and “Desperate Housewives”, as well as her recent key role in “The Mick”, and now her singing on Broadway. Carla’s story is a beautiful journey of dedication, passion, and hard work in a harsh industry. She reflects on what she has learned and how she has changed in the process.

Bios:
Carla Maria Jimenez is an American actress whose family hails from Mexico and Costa Rica. In 2025, she made her Broadway debut as Pancha in “Real Women Have Curves: The Musical.” Carla grew up in a working class household in Southern California and had early roles in “Malcolm in the Middle,” “The Shield,” “Nacho Libre,” and others. She held recurring TV roles in shows such as “Desperate Housewives,” “Raising Hope,” and “Last Man Standing.” Her widespread breakout moment came in 2017 when starring as Alba Pemberton in Fox’s “The Mick.” As an actress, Carla is praised for her physical comedy and emotional depth.

Chloe Aftel has spent her career working in commercial photography, photojournalism, and film. She’s an established name in modern photography with work featured in The New York Times, Mother Jones, Playboy, Dazed & Confused, Vogue Germany, The Hollywood Reporter, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue Italia, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Teen Vogue & more. Chloe has photographed victims of sexual violence, reported on Covid’s impact on the trans community, and gained access as the first reporter in the Covid wards of the West Coast’s hardest hit hospitals. She has covered underground abortion providers, the impact of gender pronouns on daily life, and clergy abuse. Her first book, “Outside and In Between,” is an award-winning anthology covering gender non-conforming people across America.

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