Alec Mapa

At 58 years old, Alec Mapa has this physical status:

Alejandro "Alec" Mapa, born July 10, 1965, is an American actor, comedian, and writer.

He got his first professional break when he was brought on to substitute B. D. Wong for the role of Song Liling in M. Butterfly's Broadway revival.

He gained notoriety for his appearances on Half & Half, Suzuki St. Pierre on Desperate Housewives, as Adam Benet on Half & Half.

Renzo on Switched at Birth: Mapa recurred. In 2008, Mapa co-hosted the Logo network reality dating game show Transamerican Love Story with Calpernia Addams.

Alec Mapa: Baby Daddy, his own one-man show, premiered on Showtime in 2013 and premiered on showtime.

Early life

Mapa was born in San Francisco and attended George Washington High School. He played Randolph McAfee in the production of Bye Bye Birdie when he was in high school.

Cabaret and Harvey were two of Mapa's senior year productions, in which he had lead roles. Mapa was also a champion orator in the Humorous and Dramatic Interpretation categories of Speech.

Personal life

Mapa is gay and lends his assistance to various programs that benefit the gay, lesbian, and Asian American communities. After dating since 2002, Mapa legally married Jamison "Jamie" Hebert in 2008. Mapa revealed in the first episode of his television show The Gossip Queens that he and his husband had adopted a 5-year-old boy. In 2010, the couple adopted their first child. Mapa is of Filipino descent.

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Career

Mapa got his first break in understudy, and then replace B. D. Wong in the Broadway production of M. Butterfly. Mapa travelled later on the national tour. Mapa will return to Broadway in a recreation of L'Hôtel du libre échange by Georges Feydeau and Maurice Desvallières' re-named, "A Little Hotel on the Side," in 1992. Mapa was back on Broadway in a Timon of Athens-inspired production this year. Mapa off-Broadway received a nomination in the Jessica Hagedorn play Dogeaters, and was included in every play in Chay Yew's "Whitelands" trilogy, a series of plays about gay Asian men written by Chay Yew; "A Language of Their Own" (1995), and "Wonderland" (1999).

He has appeared on television on a number of shows, including The Jamie Foxx Show, Roseanne, Seinfeld, NYPD Blue, Friends, Murder One, and Dharma & Greg. He appeared in the short-lived 2001 comedy Some of My Best Friends. In the UPN comedy Half & Half, Adam Benet played Adam Benet.

"I Remember Mapa," a one-man play about his gay experience in San Francisco, became his subject.

Mapa appeared on the Logo original stand-up comedy film Wisecrack. Vern, Gabrielle's personal shopper, appeared on the television show Desperate Housewives in 2006. He appeared on Ugly Betty, as Suzuki St. Pierre, the flamboyant host of a fictional gossip and news show (who, it is revealed, is actually a straight—and married—journalist named Byron Wu). On Rick and Steve's illustratively gay uncle Bakla, he appeared on Rick's jokingly gay uncle Bakla on the 2007-2009 animated film The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World.

Among Mapa's film credits are scenes from Bright Lights, Big City, Playing by Heart, Connie and Carla, and Marley & Me. He was featured in the films Super Sweet 16: The Movie and Truly Loved. In the film You Don't Mess With the Zohan, he also performed as a stylist.

Mapa hosted Logo's Transamerican Love Story, a reality dating service starring transgender woman Calpernia Addams, and selected from among eight potential suitors in 2008. He also hosted Dancing With Dogs on Animal Planet in the same year.

Mapa also appeared on the Atlantis Freedom Caribbean Cruise headlining in the Arcadia Theater in 2009.

Mapa appeared in 2010 as one of Logo's The Gossip Queens, a daily show on which he contributes in celebrity gossip.

He jokes that he is sometimes confused with Rex Lee, another flamboyant Asian homosexual who plays Lloyd on the HBO dramedy Entourage.

Mapa appeared on Candidly Nicole with Nicole Richie in 2015.

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