Florencia De La V

Florencia Trinidad
Florencia Trinidad in 2009.
Born	Roberto Carlos Trinidad March 2, 1975 (1975-03-02) Monte Grande, Buenos Aires, Argentina Hispanic American

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.

Biography

Early life

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.

Education

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.

Career Summary

• Florencia de La V began cross-dressing at the age of 17. She enrolled in a university in fashion design, and later took jobs as a designer and promoter.
• She also worked at the popular Buenos Aires club "Tabaris", replacing Cris Miró, a well known transvestite, in the show. 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 the TV show Polémica en el Bar ("Controversy at the Bar").
• De La V subsequently played small roles in many telenovelas and variety shows for Argentina's Telefe, but the show that made her an internationally known star has arguably been Los Roldán (2004), a sitcom that became a hit across South America and among digital television viewers in the United States. In Los Roldán, she plays "Raul Roldán", a transvestite who goes under the name "Laiza Roldán" when dressed as a woman.

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".^{[citation needed]} 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.

External links

• FlorenciaDeLaV.com (Spanish)
• Florencia De La Vega at the Internet Movie Database
• Florencia de la V at cinenacional.com
• Personal webpage (Spanish)

Preceded by Carmen Barbieri

Bailando Por un Sueño (Argentina) Winner Season 2 (August - September 2006)

Succeeded by Carla Conte