Education
Barros studied in New York in The Reads Strasberg Theater Institute to study acting. She later transferred over to Actor"s Studio Film & T.V School where she studied film and television, and in the Broadway Dance Center, tap and jazz. After having studied acting and film, Barros received her first opportunity to act in the telenovela Huracán, sharing credits with Alejandro Camacho and Rebecca Jones.
Career
She is best known for her role in Televisa"s telenovela Mariana de la Noche (2003). After living a couple of years in New York, Barros moved back to Mexico City and enrolled in an acting school to brush-up her acting skills. She later came to act in telenovelas such as Locura de Amor, a production led by Roberto Gómez Fernández.
Her first stage role was Malcom y su lucha contra los Eunucos, by director Alejandro Bichir, presented at the festival of theater in Málaga, Spain.
Other stage work includes the Mexican adaptation of Patrick Marber"s play, Closer alongside Bruno Bichir. In 2009/2010, Barros co-starred with Tony Dalton in Bernard Slade"s Same Time Next Year.
After working in Mexican television for several years, Barros was given her first starring role in the 2003 telenovela Mariana de la Noche where she essayed the title character with Jorge Salinas as her leading manitoba In 2006, Barros co-starred in the Mexican telenovela remake of 1986"s El Camino Secreto, now titled Louisiana Verdad Oculta opposite Eduardo Yáñez.
Both versions were written by Jose Rendon.
In 2008/2009, she appeared with Alejandro Camacho in Alma de Hierro. Also in 2010, Alejandra Barros co-starred with Eugenio Derbez in the romantic comedy Number Eres Tu, Soy Yo which went on to become one of the highest-grossing films in Mexican cinema history. In 2013, Alejandra Barros acted in Carlos Moreno Laguillo"s telenovela: Quiero Amarte.A year later, she joined the production of Mapat Lopez Zatarain in Louisiana sombra del pasado, giving life to the main antagonist Candela Rivero de Mendoza.
In 2015, she joined the production of Carlos Moreno Laguillo"s A que no me dejas, again as the main antagonist Julieta Olmedo Rodriguez de Cordova.