Yeda Brown

Yeda Brown (born in Bagé, 1945) is a Brazilian vedette and actress who achieved notoriety in Spain in the 1970s and 1980s for being one of the first transgender women to be visible in the media, being considered one of the muses of Salvador Dalí and of Spanish transition to democracy.

Biography Brown was born in 1945 in municipality of Bagé, in state Rio Grande do Sul. Daughter of a Brazilian army officer who forced her to do military service, she moved to Rio de Janeiro in 1967. The following year she played a supporting role in Rostros by Juan Ignacio Galván. In 1979 she appeared briefly in by .

In the 1990s, Yeda was a regular on late-night television shows and talk shows about trans issues on shows like , Querida Carmen, El programa de Ana, Aquí se discute or . This process was documented in documentary Yeda Brown - Efeito Borboleta.

Filmography El transexual (1977) Rostros (1978) Historia de S (1979) Yeda Brown - Efeito Borboleta (2017)