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30 Facts About Alejandra Bogue

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Alejandra Bogue was born on May 16,1965, in Mexico City, Mexico.

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Alejandra Bogue was raised by her mother and her grandmother and she attended Colegio del Tepeyac, a boys' school in Mexico City.

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In 1985, Alejandra Bogue participated in the contest Valores Juveniles del Travestismo, obtaining first place.

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In that same year, Alejandra Bogue moved to Acapulco where she was part of the drag show that was represented at the Gallery nightclub.

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Alejandra Bogue continued with her facet as a model and came to pose for the lens of photographers such as Adolfo Perez Butron and Armando Cristeto.

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In that facet of her career, Alejandra Bogue appeared in the Mexican versions of Vogue and Elle.

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In 1990, while Alejandra Bogue was working as a host at the Bugambilia nightclub in Mexico City, photographer Adolfo Perez Butron recommended her to American photographer Joel-Peter Witkin.

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In 1992, Alejandra Bogue posed for the second time for Witkin's lens in the Three Kinds of Woman photograph.

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In 1991, Alejandra Bogue made her debut as actress in the play Baal by Bertolt Brecht.

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Alejandra Bogue immersed herself in the theater for the rest of the 1990s.

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In 1994, Alejandra Bogue joined La Fabrica, a theater group founded by Rosario Armenta.

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Alejandra Bogue entered the ballet school of the dancer Mercedes Limon.

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Thanks to her participation in this montage, Alejandra Bogue won the prize as Female Revelation from the AMCT.

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Alejandra Bogue participated with Chrysler in several performances, including the opening act of a David Bowie concert in Mexico City in 1997.

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Between 2000 and 2002, Alejandra Bogue participated in the cabaret drag queen show El show de las Hermanas Vampiro.

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In 2001, Alejandra Bogue began to collaborate with the television host Horacio Villalobos on the TV Show Valvula de escape, on the Telehit music channel, owned by the Televisa Network.

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In that same year, Alejandra Bogue performed a small role in the film Frida, a Hollywood production, directed by Julie Taymor and starring Salma Hayek.

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In 2002, Alejandra Bogue joined Desde Gayola, a comedy TV show created by Villalobos.

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Alejandra Bogue participated in Desde Gayola: El Show, between 2003 and 2004, and Habia una Vez.

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Alejandra Bogue acted in two chapters of the anthology television show Mujer, Casos de la Vida Real produced by Silvia Pinal for Televisa.

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Parallel to her work on television, in 2003 Alejandra Bogue starred in the comic film Sin ton ni Sonia, by Carlos Sama.

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In that same year, Alejandra Bogue returned to the theater with the show of cabaret No soy Madonna, pero soy La Alejandra Bogue, a kind of biographical monologue to the rhythm of Madonna's greatest musical hits.

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In 2010, Alejandra Bogue was selected to be part of the Mexican theatrical version of the film Todo sobre mi madre by Pedro Almodovar, with the character of La Agrado.

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Thanks to her performance, Alejandra Bogue won the award for best female co-performance by the APT.

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In 2012, Alejandra Bogue was invited to be part of the transgender panel at the Global Cross Atlantic Summit, organized by Equality Milan and The Harvey Milk Foundation in Italy.

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In 2013 Alejandra Bogue makes a special appearance in the films Tercera Llamada, by Francisco Franco and Instructions Not Included, directed by and starring Eugenio Derbez.

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In 2016, Alejandra Bogue posed for the third time for photographer Joel-Peter Witkin, twenty-five years after she posed for his lens for the first time.

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In 2017, Alejandra Bogue starring the play Zuleyka Montes, directed by Gustavo Sanders.

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In 2018, Alejandra Bogue entered the world of television dubbing by giving voice to a character in the Latin American version of the American television series Pose, broadcast on Fox Premium.

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In 2019, Alejandra Bogue participates in the film El viaje de Keta, directed by Julio Bekhor.