Born into a Jewish family, Eve Ensler graduated from the prestigious private university Middlebury College in 1975 and three years later married Richard McDermott, father of actor Dylan McDermott. The marriage lasted 10 years. Ensler is the founder of V-Day, a global movement to end violence against women and girls, which has raised more than $ 90 million for local activist groups, and inspired the global action "One Billion Rising." The pacifist activities in which he has participated all over the world have earned him several important prizes, including one for leadership that was granted him in 2002 by the humanitarian organization Amnesty International. In 2004, he participated with American actresses Sally Field, Jane Fonda and Christine Lahti in a rally to ask the government of Mexico to reopen the investigation of the femicides in Ciudad Juarez, on the border with Texas, United States. Writer of international success, Ensler has received awards as a theater author for works such as Monologues of the Vagina, Necessary Targets and The Good Body. She is the author of Insecure at Last, a political memoir and I Am an Emotional Creature, a best seller of the New York Times that she later adapted for the scene as Emotional Creature.