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Roberta was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1965. Roberta Close is her stage name, in every day life she uses her Swiss legally adopted name Luiza Bambine Moreira.

Roberta started taking female hormones while still in her teens. She successfully avoided military conscription by reporting to the interview office wearing a white dress.

Once voted the most beautiful woman in Brazil she soon became famous as a model and actress, she starred in the 1986 movie Si tu vas a Rio... tu meurs (If your you go to Rio.. your meurs) and was the subject of the hit song Close by Roberto Carlos and Erasmo Carlos.

She was perfectly happy as pre-op but pressure from agents and photographers finally led to her having SRS in London in 1989.

Roberta has continued to develop her acting career and recently played a cabaret singer in the TV soap Mandacaru.

Roberta was married to a Swiss engineer, Roland Granacher and for several years lived with him in Paris and Switzerland, but they separated in the Spring of 2000.

Roberta still is unable to get Brazilian documents that will classify her as a woman. For eight years she has been trying to change the name on her ID, which say Luís Roberto Gambine Moreira. Her case came to the Supreme Court February,1997 but Flávio Giron, the federal vice-prosecutor, opposed the change, arguing that "the expert exams carried out have concluded for the male sexuality of the petitioner."

In Brazil for Carnaval, she didn't want to comment on the prosecutor's decision, but some voices stood up for her. Among them was that of famous Brazilian writer João Ubaldo Ribeiro. Ribeiro wrote in his column in the weekly Manchete magazine.

Roberta's Biography

You can order Roberta's biography by Lucia Rito in Portuguese only, (I have not been unable to find an English translation as of yet.), and read about he life and adventures with her many famous friends including Robert DeNiro, George Clooney, Eddie Murphy and Francis Coppola.

Catalogue # 052407
Title: Muito prazer, Roberta Close
(Much Pleasure, Roberta Close)