| Florencia Trinidad | |
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Florencia Trinidad in 2009. |
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Roberto Carlos Trinidad |
Florencia De La V, previously known as "Florencia de la Vega", was born Roberto Carlos Trinidad on March 2, 1976 in Chaco Province). She is an Argentinian transgender actress and former magazine editor.De La V was the winner of ShowMatch in 2006 with her professional dance partner, Manuel Rodríguez.[1]
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Florencia was born in the old Hospital of “la Madre y el Niño”, in the city of Resistencia (Province of Chaco, Argentina) 1005 km North of Buenos Aires. The family home was located in Villa Los Lirios. At age 2 she lost her mother to cancer, and eventually moved to Lomas de Zamora (Province of Buenos Aires) with her father and brother.
At age 17 Florencia dressed-up as a young lady to attend the sweet 17th birthday party of her best friend. From then on she became known as Karen until one day she was re-named by a boyfriend as “Florencia de la Vega”; eventually for legal reasons her name was adapted to Florencia de la V.
She completed her primary and high-school in the suburbs of Lomas de Zamora, located in the southwest part of greater Buenos Aires. A fashion enthusiast since she made her first dress, she decided to follow a career in fashion design at the UNNE, the National University of the Northeast, Argentina. As Karen, she began her career producing out-fits and theatrical garments for Burlesque and Musical productions, until one day she met the main character of a show, a trans woman named Cris Miró (née Gerardo Elías Virguez). At that moment Florencia de la V became a media trans woman taking the main step into a mega-career in show-business.
Since then on, she was godfathered by one of the main Argentinean lords of show-business, Gerardo Sofovich, who guided Florencia to national stardom.
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 characteristics with her, which made her more comfortable about playing "Laiza Roldán". She has said, however, that for her next roles, she would prefer to play a woman. After Los Roldán ended, Florencia De La V worked in Mar Del Plata.
In 1998 she met her current partner, dentist Pablo Goycochea, whom she married on November 1 in Buenos Aires.[2]
| Preceded by Carmen Barbieri |
Bailando Por un Sueño (Argentina) Winner Season 2 (August - September 2006) |
Succeeded by Carla Conte |