Vanessa Show

Vanessa Show (27 September 1945 – 15 September 2023) was an Argentine travesti performer. As the first travesti in Argentine show business—through the Buenos Aires revue circuit—she is considered a pioneering figure. When she was twelve, her parents separated and her father disinherited her mother, leaving them penniless. She eventually got a job at the El Nacional and Maipo theaters as a male dancer. Unreleased for many years, the film was discovered by Federico Windhausen, who was able to identify Vanessa Show with the assistance of the Archivo de la Memoria Trans. The film was screened in 2018 at Asterico, an Argentine LGBT film festival.

In the 1990s, Show returned to her homeland and resided in Buenos Aires. She was steadily invited to be guest of the talk shows of Argentinian television, and presentations in music halls and magazines interviews. a Spanish expression that means "being a blunt person", that only intended to speak very frankly about everything. Her frankly open opinion about the romance that the football player Diego Maradona was having with famed Argentine transsexual Cris Miró was published in an article of Rating Cero.

Show died at the Providencia Hospital in Buenos Aires, on 15 September 2023, at the age of 77.