Alec Mapa
Alejandro "Alec" Mapa (born July 10, 1965) is an American actor, comedian and writer. He got his first professional break when he was cast to replace B.D. Wong for the role of Song Liling in the Broadwayproduction of M. Butterfly. He later gained notoriety for the roles of Adam Benet in Half & Half and Suzuki St. Pierre in Ugly Betty which are his best known roles. He is also known for his recurring role as Vern in Desperate Housewives. He co-hosted with Calpernia Addams the Logo network reality dating game show Transamerican Love Story. He is currently recurring in the role of Renzo in Switched at Birth.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 7.428 |
| Birthday | 1965-07-10 |
| Place of Birth | San Francisco, California, USA |
| Also Known As | 알렉 마파 , |
1998
Playing by Heart
6.6/223
In a vibrant tapestry of love and longing, nine interconnected souls navigate romance and heartbreak in L.A., where passions collide and truths unfold...
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Playing by Heart
2005
Hard Pill
5.5/13
A despondent gay man throws his life and relationships into turmoil when he volunteers for a controversial pharmaceutical study for a drug designed to...
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Hard Pill
2006
Dirty Laundry
5.9/8
After ten years, Sheldon returns from New York City to Paris, Georgia. His mother Evelyn, a laundress who is stubborn, ornery, opinionated, mean-spiri...
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Dirty Laundry
1988
A New Life
4/12
Steve Giardino, an abrasive workaholic Wall Streeter, and his wife Jackie divorce after twenty-six years of marriage and find themselves thrust back i...
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A New Life
2021
The Housewives of the North Pole
4.679/14
The Christmas Queens of North Pole, Vermont, Trish and Diana, have won the Best Holiday House decorating competition every year for the past nine year...
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The Housewives of the North Pole
2011
Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure
6/543
After a talent scout spots her performing with her dog Boi at a charity gala, Sharpay Evans sets off for the bright lights of NYC, convinced instant f...
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Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure
2022
Just Swipe
5/4
Vanessa has always had trouble in the dating world, never mind now being confined to her home. She soon discovers just how much you can get away with...
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Just Swipe
2024
ClearMind
4.643/14
A grieving woman uses her virtual reality therapy to exact revenge on her former friends.
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ClearMind
2023
Marriage of Inconvenience
0/0
New names, new jobs, new lives, new husbands...? Two total strangers entering a witness protection program must pretend to be happily married to hide...
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Marriage of Inconvenience
2011
Going Down in LA-LA Land
5.7/49
A fresh face comes to Hollywood to act in movies but only the gay porn studios are eager to provide him with work.
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Going Down in LA-LA Land
2023
Baby Steps
2/1
A year after the death of their beloved Lily, Beau and Caden learn that she froze some of her eggs and they must decide whether they are ready to take...
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Baby Steps
2022
Another Coffee House Chronicles Movie
1/1
Pulled from the second season of web series "Coffee House Chronicles," with new adventures of unlucky-in-love Eli, this movie continues to explore the...
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Another Coffee House Chronicles Movie
2022
My Favorite Girlfriend
5.6/26
A man falls in love with a woman who has multiple personalities.
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My Favorite Girlfriend
2023
Ladies of the '80s: A Divas Christmas
8.2/6
Five soap opera divas as they reunite to shoot the final Christmas episode of their long-running sudser. The producer, Alex and director Nell, who hap...
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Ladies of the '80s: A Divas Christmas
2014
Beethoven's Treasure Tail
5.8/88
After everyone's favorite St. Bernard gets fired from a movie, Beethoven begins the long journey home with his trainer, Eddie. On their way, they beco...
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Beethoven's Treasure Tail
2008
Marley & Me
7.2/4562
A newly married couple, in the process of starting a family, learn many of life's important lessons from their trouble-loving retriever, Marley. Packe...
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Marley & Me
2011
Half-Share
1/1
Fresh out of a long-term relationship, Mac leaves Oregon for a summer on Fire Island and must decide if he can handle his eccentric new housemates on...
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Half-Share
1987
Supermom's Daughter
0/0
A career driven mother and her daughter don't see eye to eye when it comes to the daughter's future plans.
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Supermom's Daughter
2014
Such Good People
5.4/14
A young couple discovers a secret room filled with cash while house-sitting for rich friends who die while out of the country.
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Such Good People
2004
Connie and Carla
5.9/91
After accidentally witnessing a mafia hit in the Windy City, gal pals Connie and Carla skip town for L.A., where they go way undercover as singers wor...
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Connie and Carla
2014
Alec Mapa: Baby Daddy
4.9/7
Actor and comedian Alec Mapa (America's Gaysian Sweetheart) shares hilarious and heartfelt stories about how his life has changed since he and his hus...
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Alec Mapa: Baby Daddy
2019
Grand-Daddy Day Care
5.9/39
A man has to figure out a way to make extra money when his father-in-law moves in.
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Grand-Daddy Day Care
2017
A Very Sordid Wedding
5.2/22
Del Shores' follow-up to "Sordid Lives" revisits Winters, Texas for a showdown between the gradually liberalizing locals and the new fundamentalist pr...
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A Very Sordid Wedding
1988
Bright Lights, Big City
5.7/119
A disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out the memories of his dead mother and estranged wife.
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Bright Lights, Big City
1994
Hart to Hart: Crimes of the Hart
6.2/10
In their very last adventure, Jonathan and Jennifer Hart travel to The Big Apple, where a play she wrote in college is being produced on Broadway. But...
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Hart to Hart: Crimes of the Hart
2024
Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution
6/9
This rapturous documentary steps into the dynamic world of queer stand-up and examines the powerful cultural influence it has had on social change in...
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Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution
2004
Who's Your Daddy?
4.9/82
An adopted Ohio high school senior discovers he is the inherited heir to a porn empire. Dropped into a bitter power struggle, his new flock of beautif...
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Who's Your Daddy?
Silver Fox
0/0
It’s minutes before curtain when America’s favorite “guncle” (gay uncle), standup comedian Joe Fox, finds himself cornered by his family in his dressi...
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Silver Fox
1996
The Substance of Fire
6.3/3
Isaac Geldhart is a Holocaust survivor who, overcome by grief at the recent death of his wife, seems determined to run his publishing firm into the gr...
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The Substance of Fire
2008
You Don't Mess with the Zohan
5.7/3765
An Israeli counterterrorism soldier with a secretly fabulous ambition to become a Manhattan hairstylist. Zohan's desire runs so deep that he'll do any...
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You Don't Mess with the Zohan
2008
Tru Loved
4.9/23
Recently relocated from San Francisco to conservative suburbia by her lesbian mothers, Tru struggles like all teens to fit in and find love, but her q...
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Tru Loved
2010
Pride: The Gay & Lesbian Comedy Slam
4.3/3
Gay & Lesbian Comedy Show Hosted by the Oscars resident writer for the past 17 years and comedy satirist Bruce Villanch, "Pride" the Gay & Lesbian Com...
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Pride: The Gay & Lesbian Comedy Slam
2000
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
5.7/12
Following World War I, Indy - now fluent in several languages - works as a translator at the controversial Paris Peace Conference, where he once more...
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
2018
The Year of Spectacular Men
5.563/32
In the year after graduating college, Izzy struggles to navigate the seemingly incessant failures of adulthood, the reality of a substandard dating po...
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The Year of Spectacular Men
2012
Black Briefs
3.8/8
Six dark-themed gay short films, including: SPRING: A young man meets a stranger for S&M sex, an experience that will change his life forever. REMI...
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Black Briefs
2009
Annul Victory
0/0
Annul Victory is a documentary on the fight for marriage equality and the Proposition 8 election battle. The film documents the roller coaster ride of...
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Annul Victory
2011
Winner Takes All
4/3
A self-involved but seductive beauty engineers his two lovers to fight over him. And we mean, really fight.
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Winner Takes All
2021
Queen Bees
6.1/54
Helen is an independent widow who moves into the Pine Grove Senior Community and discovers it’s just like high school – full of cliques and flirtatiou...
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Queen Bees
2020
Chick Fight
5.8/222
When Anna Wyncomb is introduced to an underground, all-female fight club in order to turn the mess of her life around, she discovers she is much more...
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