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Alejandra Bogue
Alejandra Bogue Gómez (born May 16, 1965, in Mexico City) is a Mexican actress, comedian, television host, and vedette. Biography Early life She was born on May 16, 1965, in Mexico City, Mexico. From her childhood, Bogue claims to have defined her feminine identity. She was raised by her mother and her grandmother and she attended Colegio del Tepeyac, a boys' school in Mexico City. 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. Later, she studied at the Liceo de México and at Colegio Decroly. 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. At that time, Bogue meets Mónica Alejandra ''Naná'', a transgender woman, who serves as her mentor. In 1984 she began working in transvestite shows at the ''Le Baron'' nightclub, i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mexico City
Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America. One of the world's alpha cities, it is located in the Valley of Mexico within the high Mexican central plateau, at an altitude of . The city has 16 boroughs or ''demarcaciones territoriales'', which are in turn divided into neighborhoods or ''colonias''. The 2020 population for the city proper was 9,209,944, with a land area of . According to the most recent definition agreed upon by the federal and state governments, the population of Greater Mexico City is 21,804,515, which makes it the sixth-largest metropolitan area in the world, the second-largest urban agglomeration in the Western Hemisphere (behind São Paulo, Brazil), and the largest Spanish language, Spanish-speaking city (city proper) in the world. Greater Mexico City has a gross domestic product, GDP of $411 billion in 2011, which makes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pilar Pellicer
María del Pilar Pellicer López de Llergo (12 February 1938 – 16 May 2020) was a Mexican actress. At the 17th Ariel Awards, she won the Ariel Award for Best Actress for her performance in the film ''La Choca'' (1974). Biography Pilar was daughter of lawyer César Pellicer Sánchez and wife María del Pilar López de Llergo, both from Tabasco. At age 18, Pilar studied at the Academy of Contemporary Dance, and was trained by Seki Sano. Pilar later abandoned dance to study philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She also studied at the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura. She debuted as an actress in the movie ''El vendedor de muñecas'' in 1955. Death Pellicer died from COVID-19 on 16 May 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico at 82. Selected filmography * ''El vendedor de muñecas'' (1955) * ''The Life of Agustín Lara'' (1959) - Admiradora joven * ''Nazarín'' (1959) - Lucía (uncredited) * ''Escuela de verano'' (1959) - Magdal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonia Infante
Sonia Angélica Infante López (2 February 1944 – 16 July 2019), known as Sonia Infante, was a Mexican film and television actress. The daughter of Ángel Infante, she followed him and her uncle Pedro into an acting career. Her film debut was in 1960, and she made more than 50 films over most of the next decade. In 1967, she took a break from acting to marry producer Gustavo Alatriste and to raise their two children. After divorcing Alatriste in 1982, Infante returned to acting in the mid-1980s. She also produced several films and starred in several telenovelas, such as ''El precio de la fama'' and ''Un rostro en mi pasado''. During the 1980s, she married actor Andrés García, whom she later divorced. Infante retired from acting in 2007. Infante died in July 2019, after suffering cardiac arrest while hospitalised in Mexico City Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the mos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Talina Fernández
Catalina María del Sagrado Corazón Fernández-Veró Vela (born August 2, 1944) is a Mexican television presenter, journalist, producer, and actress. She has hosted and written for numerous television programs for many years. Biography Talina Fernández was born in Mexico City in 1944, the daughter of Jorge Fernández-Veró and Catalina Vela Alcaráz. She went to study in the United States at a very young age. After returning to Mexico, she graduated in nursing from the . She married Gerardo Levy, with whom she had three children, among them the entertainer Mariana Levy, who died from cardiac arrest in 2005. After her separation from Levy, she married politician in 1981. They divorced in 2015, after Fernández alleged infidelity on his part. Career In 1972, she began her career as an actress, with a special appearance on the telenovela '' Las gemelas''. In 1977, she was a guest star on another telenovela, ''Caras y gestos''. She has participated in two other telenovelas – '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura León
Laura León (born Rebeca Velderrain Vera on November 24, 1952, in Comalcalco, Tabasco) is a Mexican actress and singer. Discography *2009: '' Lo Nuevo'' *2000: '' Mi Tesoro Eres Tú'' *1999: ''Mujeres Engañadas ''Mujeres engañadas'' (English: ''Deceived Women'') is a Mexican telenovela produced by Emilio Larrosa for Televisa in 1999-2000. The telenovela tells the story of four couples who live in the same apartment building. On Monday, October 25, 19 ...'' *1998: '' Laura León'' *1996: '' Es el Premio Mayor'' *1995: '' Embajadora de la Cumbia'' *1994: '' Boleros para el Amor'' *1993: '' Tesorito... Baila Conmigo'' *1992: '' El Club de Mujeres Engañadas'' *1988: '' No Me Toques Que Me Rompo'' *1987: '' Laura León con Sabor a...'' *1985: '' Mi Tesorito'' *1984: '' Ritmo Ardiente'' *1982: '' El Fuego del Tropico Hecho Mujer'' *1982: '' La Tesorito de Oro'' *1982: '' El Fuego del Trópico Hecho Mujer'' *1978: '' La Máquina del Sabor'' Filmography References Exter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desde Gayola
''Desde Gayola'' (en english "From Armchairs") was a Mexican late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Horacio Villalobos. The show premiered on the music video network Telehit in February 2002 as a sketch into the variety show ''Válvula de Escape''. The show revolves around a series of parodies about Mexican culture, sexuality and politics, performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. The TV show followed a format similar to the famous American show ''Saturday Night Live'' with each episode approximately 25 minutes in length and containing an average of five sketches per episode. The show included several transgender actors, who play female characters. Origin of the name ''"La Gayola" was the site into a theater, in which critics were located and from where they issued their judgments about a montage. For us, ''Desde Gayola'' is the place from where we criticize the political, social, religious and entertainment realitie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salma Hayek
Salma Hayek Pinault ( , ; born Salma Valgarma Hayek Jiménez; September 2, 1966) is a Mexican and American actress and film producer. She began her career in Mexico with starring roles in the telenovela ''Teresa'' (1989–1991) as well as the romantic drama ''El Callejón de los Milagros'' (1995), for which she received an Ariel Award nomination. She soon established herself in Hollywood with appearances in films such as ''Desperado'' (1995), ''From Dusk till Dawn'' (1996), ''Wild Wild West'' (1999), and ''Dogma'' (1999). Hayek's portrayal of painter Frida Kahlo in the biographical film ''Frida'' (2002), which she also produced, made her the first Mexican actress to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and additionally earned her Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award and British Academy Film Award nominations. In subsequent years, Hayek focused more on producing while starring in the action-centered pictures ''Once Upon a Time in Mexico'' (2003), ''Afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie Taymor
Julie Taymor (born December 15, 1952) is an American director and writer of theater, opera and film. Her stage adaptation of ''The Lion King'' debuted in 1997, and received eleven Tony Award nominations, with Taymor receiving Tony Awards for Best Director and Costume Designer. Her film ''Frida'', about Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, was nominated for five Academy Awards, including a Best Original Song nomination for Taymor's composition "Burn It Blue". She also directed the jukebox musical '' Across the Universe''. Early life Taymor was born in Newton, Massachusetts, the daughter of Elizabeth (née Bernstein), a political science professor and Democratic activist, and Melvin Lester Taymor, a gynecologist. Taymor's interest in theatre took root early in her life. By age ten, she had joined the Boston Children's Theatre and starred in a number of productions. Being the youngest member of theatre groups became common. By 13, she was taking trips to Boston by herself every weekend, whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hollywood, Los Angeles
Hollywood is a neighborhood in the Central Los Angeles, central region of Los Angeles, California. Its name has come to be a metonymy, shorthand reference for the Cinema of the United States, U.S. film industry and the people associated with it. Many notable film studios, such as Columbia Pictures, Walt Disney Studios (division), Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., and Universal Pictures, are located near or in Hollywood. Hollywood was incorporated as a municipality in 1903. It was Merger (politics), consolidated with the city of Los Angeles in 1910. Soon thereafter a prominent film industry emerged, having developed first on the East Coast. Eventually it became the most recognizable in the world. History Initial development H.J. Whitley, a real estate developer, arranged to buy the E.C. Hurd ranch. They agreed on a price and shook hands on the deal. Whitley shared his plans for the new town with General Harrison Gray Otis (publisher), Harrison Gray Otis, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frida
''Frida'' is a 2002 American biographical drama film directed by Julie Taymor which depicts the professional and private life of the surrealist Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. Starring Salma Hayek in an Academy Award–nominated portrayal as Kahlo and Alfred Molina as her husband, Diego Rivera, the film was adapted by Clancy Sigal, Diane Lake, Gregory Nava, Anna Thomas, Antonio Banderas and unofficially by Edward Norton from the 1983 book '' Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo'' by Hayden Herrera. ''Frida'' received generally positive reviews from critics, and won two Academy Awards for Best Makeup and Best Original Score among six nominations. Plot In 1925, Frida Kahlo suffers a traumatic accident at the age of 18 onboard a wooden-bodied bus that collides with a streetcar. Impaled by a metal pole, the injuries she sustains plague her for the rest of her life. To help her through convalescence, her father brings her a canvas to paint on. Once regaining the ability to walk wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Televisa
Grupo Televisa is a Mexican multimedia mass media company. A major Latin American mass media corporation, it often presents itself as the largest producer of Spanish-language content. In April 2021, Televisa and Univision Communications announced that they had proposed a merger between Televisa's media and entertainment assets with Univision, which would form a new company to be known as TelevisaUnivision. The transaction was completed on January 31, 2022, with Televisa owning a 45% stake of the company. Company History Since its beginning, the company has been owned by the Azcárraga family. The company has been led and owned by three generations of Azcárraga; each has marked an era for the company and, until October 2017, each had passed the ownership of the company to his son upon his death. Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta (1955–1972) Grupo Televisa was founded in 1955 as Telesistema Mexicano, linking Mexico's first three television stations: XHTV-TV (founded in 1950), XEW- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telehit
TeleHit is a Mexican cable/satellite television network. Its main programming is music and music videos. It is a part of Televisa Networks, an affiliate of TelevisaUnivision, and is also available in various countries in Latin America and United States. Broadcasting since 1993, Telehit became the second Spanish language music video network under MTV. What began as a Spanish music network, now is universal fusion of different musical rhythms, like pop, rock, electronic, hip-hop and reggaeton. Besides music videos, the channel also broadcasts concerts, TV specials and general-interest content for youth. Telehit has also been a platform for hosts and actors to being into Mexican show business. Telehit Awards The Telehit Awards were first presented on November 5, 2008. They emerged in commemoration of its 15 years on Mexican television. These awards recognize the most outstanding artists in music. Hosts Current *''Adina Burak'' *''Ceci Flores'' *''Barbara Islas'' *''Raul Geme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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