She started to live as female full time in her teens, and secretly took female hormones. She was exempted from Brazilian national service, after she reported in a dress, which led to her father, a senior army officer, disowning her for many years.
She became famous as a model and actress by the age of 20 using the stage name Roberta Close, and was the first pre-op to appear in Brazilian Playboy. After gender surgery at Charing Cross Hospital in London in 1989 she was featured in a Brazilian men's magazine and voted by readers ‘Most Beautiful Woman in Brazil’.
She tried to challenge Brazilian laws that prevent her from using a female name or listing her gender as female, but lost in the Supreme Court in 1997. In 1999 she was arrested for having a female passport.
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In 1998 she published her autobiography in which she claims involvements with Eddie Murphy, Robert de Niro and many others.
Only in 2005 did she acquire female status in Brazil and a new birth certificate.
She has acted in five Brazilian films, mainly in the 1990s.
- Roberta Close. Muito Prazer, Roberta Close
(Much Pleasure, Roberta Close). Rio de Janeiro: Editora Rosa dos Tempos. 1998.
- Jen Star. “Luiza Bambine Moreira - - ‘Roberta Close’”. Antijen. http://antijen.org/Articles/RC1.html.
- “Roberta Close”. Internet Movie DataBase. www.imdb.com/name/nm0167103. 5 films.
- “Roberta Close – A pantera virou uma lady”. Closes no blog. 20 August 2008. http://closesnoblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/roberta-close-pantera-virou-uma-lady.html
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