Roberta Close
From QueerBio.com
Country
Brazil
Birth - Death
1964 -
Occupation
Entertainment
Description
International celebrity that is a male-to-female transsexual. Media personality, fashion model. Raised public awareness of transexuals, though she describes herself as hermaphrodite. Starred in the 1986 movie 'Si tu vas a Rio... tu meurs' (1986). Author of her autobiography 'Muito Prazer, Roberta Close' (Much Pleasure, Roberta Close, 1998). Born as Luíz Roberto Gambine Moreira.