Alejandra Borrero

Alejandra Borrero

Born: April 25, 1962
in Popayan, Cauca, Colombia
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.

Movies for Alejandra Borrero...

Un caballo en la alcoba
Title: Un caballo en la alcoba
Released: April 20, 2024
Type: Movie
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Virus Tropical
Title: Virus Tropical
Character: Hilda (voice)
Released: October 21, 2017
Type: Movie
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 personality.
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Title: The Lethal Tele
Released: April 21, 2017
Type: TV
Colombian talk show
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Gente de bien
Title: Gente de bien
Character: María Isabel
Released: June 29, 2014
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Allá te espero
Character: Magnolia Jaramillo
Released: January 21, 2013
Type: TV
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Poker
Title: Poker
Character: Jefe de la Mafia
Released: October 30, 2011
Type: Movie
Five strangers on the brink of despair agree to meet and bet large in a poker game.
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Title: Amor en custodia
Character: Actriz
Released: November 9, 2009
Type: TV
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Title: El Último Matrimonio Feliz
Character: Antonia Palacio Muñoz de González
Released: January 21, 2008
Type: TV
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.
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Love in the Time of Cholera
Title: Love in the Time of Cholera
Character: Doña Blanca
Released: October 4, 2007
Type: Movie
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.
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Towards Darkness
Title: Towards Darkness
Character: Marta Gutierrez
Released: April 28, 2007
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Pura Sangre
Character: Genoveva de Lagos
Released: March 13, 2007
Type: TV
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Title: La hija del Mariachi
Character: Raquel Santana de Guerrero
Released: September 4, 2006
Type: TV
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 his case to avoid that fate. Meanwhile, he often finds his love tested and vulnerable to several rivals, but Rosario always trusts that he has been honest with her.
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Rosario Tijeras
Title: Rosario Tijeras
Character: Doña Ruby
Released: August 12, 2005
Type: Movie
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.
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Breath of Life
Title: Breath of Life
Character: Woman on stairs
Released: October 11, 1999
Type: Movie
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 trafficking and paramilitary groups, a bullfighter cunning and good for nothing, a boxer fallen on hard times with a force so stupid as rare Lotero intellect and an insightful blind. And in the midst of this, the dark threads entangling power to everyone, and especially the poor Fierro.
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Title: Francisco the mathematician
Character: adriana
Released: May 5, 1999
Type: TV
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The Debt
Title: The Debt
Released: August 14, 1997
Type: Movie
A usurer nicknamed The Turk is killed. Mysteriously, everyone in the village had problems with him and anyone could have been his killer.
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Title: Café con Aroma de Mujer
Character: Lucia Sandoval de Vallejo
Released: December 30, 1994
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Escalona
Character: Consuelo
Released: January 15, 1991
Type: TV
The improbable real life of Rafael Escalona, who had no music education and became Colombia's king of vallenato music, chronicling everyday life.
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Title: Azucar
Character: Claridad Solaz
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
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.