Florencia De La V
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Florencia De La Vega (born Raul Trinidad on March 2, 1976), known as Florencia de la V, is an Argentine transvestite actress and former magazine editor. She refuses to be called by his birthname; he says he found happiness after portraying a woman.
[edit] Biography
De La V was forced to grow with his father after his mother died of cancer when he was three years old. This caused a deep impact in De La V's life as well as in his father's. De La V, however, felt as a young boy that he wanted to be a girl. Later on, during his teenaged years, De La V, still a he, felt an urge to dress as a woman, and so, at the age of 17, he did it for the first time, dressing up as a girl and using make-up during a family party. De La V made the dress he wore for that party, discovering that he had talent to be a fashion designer.
De La V enrolled in a university, where he learned fashion designing. De La V took a job as a designer and as a promoter. She replaced later Chris Miro, a well known transvestite, at a show at the popular Buenos Aires club named "Tavaris". It was while working there that she became a vedette, catching the eyes of television and theater producer Gerardo Sofovich. She made her acting debut in "Polemica en el Bar" ("Controversy at the Bar").
De La V subsequently played little roles in many telenovelas and variety show's for Argentina's Telefe, but the show that made her an internationally known star has arguably been 2004's "Los Roldan", a telenovela with sitcom characteristics that became a smash hit across South America and among digital television viewers in the United States. In "Los Roldan", she plays "Raul Roldan," a transvestite who goes under the name "Laiza Roldan" when dressed as a woman. "Raul Roldan" was a member of a poor family until his brother, "Tito Roldan", saves a lady who is about to commit suicide. When the lady dies, she left "Tito" and the rest of the family in control of a large company and a mansion in show of gratitude. "Raul Roldan" then starts to dress as a girl, and becomes very famous across Argentina as a television show host, as "Laiza Roldan".
Florencia De La V expressed that she felt a little uncomfortable at first with being given a job as a transvestite in the soap opera. Later on, however, she accepted the fact that her character shares some life charasteristics with her, which made her a little more comfortable about playing "Laiza Roldan." She has said, however, that for her next roles, she would prefer to represent a woman.
After "Los Roldan" ended, Florencia De La V worked in Mar Del Plata. In 1998, she met the dentist, Dr. Pablo Goycochea. Among her future goals are to marry Goycochea and to adopt a baby.
