Our November Cover, Alejandra Giraldo, is an Artist in Constant Transformation

For some artists, performance is about becoming someone else. For Colombian actress and multidisciplinary performer Alejandra Giraldo, it is also about discovering how many different versions of oneself can exist. Moving between film, theatre, comedy, physical performance, and storytelling, Giraldo approaches her craft as an ongoing exploration of human behavior and authenticity within her work.

Originally from Bogotá, Colombia, and now based in Los Angeles, Giraldo has developed an artistic identity shaped by different cultures, disciplines, and approaches to performance.

After establishing herself professionally as an actress in Colombia, Giraldo received a full scholarship to pursue an MFA in Acting for Film at the New York Film Academy. The experience exposed her to different acting methodologies and filmmaking approaches, challenging her to reassess her strengths, recognize areas for growth, and expand her artistic vocabulary across two distinct theatrical and cinematic cultures.

For Giraldo, every project has become an opportunity to investigate a different dimension of acting. In Primate 2, a Prime Video production featuring Colombian actors Christian Tappán and Diego Cadavid, she explored the challenge of bringing comedy into a realistic scene through facial expressions and subtle physical gestures that were big enough. The experience required finding humor without compromising the naturalism of the performance.

In Ghost: A Haunting Love Story, an independent film featuring Mithun Chakraborty and Namashi Chakraborty, the challenge was entirely different. Portraying a character consumed by an obsession with another person required her to embrace the absurdity of the character's behavior without making the character herself ridiculous. Finding the humanity beneath that obsession became an important exercise in emotional complexity and helped deepen her understanding of character work.

Her work in The Callback, directed by Mateo Galindo Peña, offered another kind of connection. Exploring the emotional journey of an immigrant pursuing opportunities in a new environment, the film allowed Giraldo to engage with the uncertainty, hope, frustration, and exhilaration that can accompany the pursuit of a dream. For an artist who has experienced the challenges of building a career across borders, bringing those emotional contradictions to life through a character has been particularly rewarding.

Her versatility extends into commercial productions, where each campaign has demanded a distinct understanding of performance. Selected to lead campaigns for internationally recognized brands such as Walmart and Pechanga Resort Casino, as well as projects in the technology sector, Giraldo approaches commercial acting as its own creative discipline. A Halloween campaign for Walmart allowed her to explore physical comedy and expressive movement, while her work for Pechanga called for a softer, more approachable screen presence, balancing gentleness with confidence and charisma. In her work with Patricia Acosta Jewelry, she has also explored the relationship between movement, visual identity, and storytelling, translating the brand's narrative and aesthetic into physical expression that communicates the intention of each campaign. She is represented by The Park Agency in Los Angeles.

Yet, Giraldo's artistic identity extends well beyond the camera. Theatre, clowning, and physical performance remain essential to her creative process. She is particularly interested in the relationship between the body and emotion, and in how seemingly small impulses can reveal unexpected dimensions of a character. For her, comedy is not simply about making an audience laugh; it can be a way of exposing vulnerability, contradictions, and the absurdity of human behavior.

Her theatrical experiences have taken her across Colombia and Mexico. Among them is Eurípides: La culpa no puede ser de Medea, which toured Bogotá and Mexico City as part of the XXX Festival Internacional de Teatro Universitario at UNAM, as well as 12 Minutos, presented during the XIX Festival Internacional de Teatro Universitario in Puebla. She also co-created and performed in Insuficiente, which received a Special Mention at the Brisk Festival, and participated in work recognized at Short+Sweet for Best Latinx Play.

Fluent in English and Spanish, she draws inspiration from her Colombian roots and international experiences, embracing different cultural perspectives as part of her artistic identity.

Giraldo gravitates toward complex, unconventional characters who balance humor, vulnerability, and unpredictability. She is drawn to exploring the contradictions of human behavior and the emotions and impulses that often remain beneath the surface.