Percilla Bejano

Percilla Bejano (née Percilla Román; April 26, 1911 – February 5, 2001) was a Puerto Rican-American sideshow performer, singer, actress, and carnival attraction billed as The Monkey Girl (Spanish: La Chica Mono or La Mujer Mono). Born with hypertrichosis and hyperdontia, conditions that caused extensive hair growth and two rows of teeth, she was exhibited from childhood and became one of the best-known sideshow performers in North America.

Beginning her career in travelling exhibitions during the 1910s, Bejano performed for more than fifty years with major carnival and sideshow organizations including the Johnny J. Jones Exposition, Ripley's Believe It or Not!, and James E. Strates Shows. She died in Tampa, Florida, in 2001.

After more than fifty years as a performer, Bejano and her husband had largely retired from touring by the 1980s. They continued to appear in films, documentaries, and television programmes about sideshow culture, including Carny (1980), Being Different (1981), and a 1992 episode of The Secret Cabaret.

Percilla and Emmitt remained married for nearly 57 years and worked together in sideshows and travelling exhibitions for several decades.