Alejandra Borrero
Birthday: Born in 1962-04-25 in Popayan, Cauca, Colombia
Deathday: Alive
María Alejandra Borrero Saa (born April 25, 1962) is a Colombian actress of film, stage and television. Born of a traditional family from Popayán, Borrero establishes a liberal life, where she manifests to be very different from the traditional standards which involved her in the world of acting. In 1998, after years of work in Colombian television, she came out as lesbian, an issue that according to her was not well accepted by the country and caused her depression for four years. She decided to move to the United States, questioning how in Colombia there was no respect for difference. Four years after announcing her homosexuality, she returned to her homeland and agreed to interview her sexual orientation, concluding that little by little, society was already accepting sexual diversity. In 2015, she stated that she had a relationship with Katrin Nyfeler, is engaged to get married. While occasionally described as an atheist by the Colombian media, Borrero has publicly stated that while she is against organized religion, she does believe in God.
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Escalona
Character: Consuelo
The improbable real life of Rafael Escalona, who had no music education and became Colombia's king of vallenato music, chronicling everyday life....
La Tele Letal
Character:
Colombian talk show...
La hija del Mariachi
Character: Raquel Santana de Guerrero
Emiliano, a wealthy Mexican businessman, is ripped off by his friends and partners. Hidden in Bogotá, he receives help from Rosario, a mariachi singer. She does not know Emiliano’s background and that he is wanted by the police of two countries and by a criminal organization. With a new name and personality, he adapts well to his new life as a mariachi band member and finds in Rosario the love of his life. But he is afraid his secret will tear them apart. He needs to clear his name and resolve h...
Francisco El Matemático
Character: adriana
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Café con Aroma de Mujer
Character: Lucia Sandoval de Vallejo
Café con aroma de mujer is a 1994 Colombian telenovela, produced by then programming company RCN TV on state-owned Canal A. It was written and created by Fernando Gaitán. It was broadcast in several countries throughout Latin America, North America and Europe....
Azucar
Character: Claridad Solaz
This classic story tells the life of the people, the sugar mills and the cane fields in the Valle del Cauca, showing the tradition and culture of this Colombian region....
El Último Matrimonio Feliz
Character: Antonia Palacio Muñoz de González
El Ultimo Matrimonio Feliz is a Colombian telenovela aired since January 21, 2008 on Colombian network RCN. It has a unique format among the current aired telenovelas in Colombia because of its ensemble cast. The telenovela is in top three of the most viewed shows in Colombia on the first half of 2008 season....
Amor en custodia
Character: Actriz
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Allá te espero
Character: Magnolia Jaramillo
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Pura Sangre
Character: Genoveva de Lagos
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Love in the Time of Cholera
Character: Doña Blanca
In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years to the day Florentino Ariza, a telegraph boy, falls in love with Fermina Daza, the daughter of a mule trader....
The Debt
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A usurer nicknamed The Turk is killed. Mysteriously, everyone in the village had problems with him and anyone could have been his killer....
Un caballo en la alcoba
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Towards Darkness
Character: Marta Gutierrez
About a kidnapped hostage's life, and the frustration his family, a special ops team, and a man in charge of delivering the ransom money all feel as they rush to save him....
Gente de bien
Character: María Isabel
Eric, a ten-year-old boy, finds himself living overnight with Gabriel, his father whom he barely knows. Seeing that the man is having a hard time building a relationship with his son and staying afloat financially, Maria Isabel, the upper-class woman Gabriel works for as a carpenter, decides to take the boy under her wing....
Rosario Tijeras
Character: Doña Ruby
Rosario Tijeras has been abused by men all her life, initially by her stepfather. Years later, she works as a paid assassin, seducing men and killing them when they least expect it. She meets Emilio, a wealthy womanizer, and his best friend, Antonio, at a nightclub, and starts an affair with Emilio despite Antonio's growing feelings for her. But circumstances bring her closer to Antonio, until her past catches up with her in a devastating way....
Virus Tropical
Character: Hilda (voice)
Paola is born in a traditional Colombian family, or at least that is what they try to be. Her father is a priest, her mother is a "psychic" and her sisters are not what their parents expected. She is a young Latin American woman struggling for her independence in a hard context full of stereotypes and appearances not being able to fit in any mold. With a unique feminine vision of the world this girl learns to live while she lives as she witnesses a series of small crises that shape her personali...
Breath of Life
Character: Woman on stairs
It begins with the tragedy of Armero, during the course investigates the murder of a beautiful woman and on his way some people die in the end a killing and a cemetery. Emerson Roque Fierro, former policeman and private investigator shadowing, investigates the murder of "Golondrina", a beautiful young woman, occurred in a seedy hotel in downtown Bogota. Without knowing who it is, begins to understand their relationships with a motley gallery of men: a corrupt politician, connected to drug traffi...