Working with them, Miró made her fringe theatre debut in the plays Fragmentos del infierno-based on a text by Antonin Artaud -and Orgasmo apocalíptico, which focused on sexuality issues more explicitly. Belardo became Miró's close friend and artistic director, while Belmonte worked as her press agent. In the late 1980s, Miró met theater director Jorgelina Belardo at Bunker-a popular gay club in Buenos Aires-who asked her to join a theatrical production group that Belardo had formed with Juanito Belmonte. She studied dance at Julio Bocca's school and acting with Alejandra Boero at the same time that she studied dentistry. It bothered us." Īfter finishing secondary school, Miró began studying dentistry at the University of Buenos Aires. Not my mother, Cris identified with my mother, he saw her shoes, her dresses. At that time we were ashamed, somehow my dad and I tried to hide it. Her brother Esteban Virguez described Miró's childhood as a little boy: "Cris was different since he was born, (.) he did not like football, he played with dolls and my dad was the typical macho of those times and Cris was like a girl, when we were walking down the street they always confused him with a girl. Īlthough assigned male at birth, Miró was effeminate from a very young age.
Ĭris Miró was born on 16 September 1965, in Buenos Aires to a retired military man and a housewife.
She is now regarded as a symbol of the Argentine 1990s.
Nevertheless, her figure was initially questioned by some members of the burgeoning travesti activism movement, who resented the unequal treatment she received compared to most trans people. Īs the first travesti celebrity in Argentina, she caused a media sensation and paved the way for the visibility of the transgender community in local society. For years, she hid her HIV positive status from the press until her death on 1 June 1999, due to AIDS-related lymphoma. Miró began her acting career in the early 1990s in fringe theatre plays and later rose to fame as a vedette at the Teatro Maipo in 1995. Being the first Argentine travesti to gain nation-wide fameĬris Miró (16 September 1965 – 1 June 1999) was an Argentine entertainer and media personality who had a brief but influential career as a top-billing vedette in Buenos Aires' revue theatre scene during the mid-to-late 1990s.