Alejandra Bogue Gómez (born May 16, 1965, in Mexico City) is a Mexican actress, comedian, television host, and vedette.
It was precisely during the performance of a school play that Bogue was able to interpret a female character for the first time, which affirmed her artistic vocation and her gender identity.
[citation needed] In the early 1980s, Bogue began to participate in shows where she performed impersonations of figures such as Annie Lennox, Nina Hagen, Cyndi Lauper and Madonna.
[citation needed] In 1998 she acted in the play The Maids, by Jean Genet, under the direction of Adriana Roel, together with Patricia Reyes Spíndola and Pilar Pellicer.
In 2001, Bogue began to collaborate with the television host Horacio Villalobos on the TV Show Válvula de escape, on the Telehit music channel, owned by the Televisa Network.
In that same year, Bogue performed a small role in the film Frida, a Hollywood production, directed by Julie Taymor and starring Salma Hayek.
[citation needed] Bogue also acted in two chapters of the anthology television show Mujer, Casos de la Vida Real produced by Silvia Pinal for Televisa (2002 and 2004).
Parallel to her work on television, in 2003 Bogue starred in the comic film Sin ton ni Sonia, by Carlos Sama.
At the end of the same year, Bogue joined Guau!, a television show broadcast by Telehit and focused on issues of the LGBT community.
Among the characters that Bogue created for her sketches are Betty BO5 (representation of an actress in decline, with alcoholism and drug addiction problems); Wendy Citlally (makeup artist whose Bible are the gossip magazines), Matalina Vil (parody of the character Catalina Creel from the Mexican telenovela Cuna de lobos), and La Madrota (portrait of an alcoholic and decadent sex worker).
The play premiered with great box office success at the Teatro de los Insurgentes in Mexico City on March 27, 2010.
[8] In 2012, 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.
[9] In 2013 Bogue makes a special appearance in the films Tercera Llamada, by Francisco Franco and Instructions Not Included, directed by and starring Eugenio Derbez.
[14] On June 10th 2024 it was announced on the official Instagram for the non-replica Mexican production of Priscilla, Queen of the Dessert that Bogue would return to the stage playing the role of Bernadette, alternating with trans actress Roshell Terranova