LGBT Trivia: Agiction, The Birdcage of Fictional LGBT Characters

Do you remember the flamboyant Guatemalan housekeeper with the catchy name Agador in The Birdcage? How couldn’t you, right?

For this hysterical role, which Hank Azaria considers his “big break,” he was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role, and critically branded “the most hilarious performance in the film,” by Alison Macor of The Austin Chronicle, while Empire wrote that he “[stole] the show.”19