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- Carlotta (born 2 September 1943) is the stage name of Carol Byron AM, a transgender Australian cabaret performer and television personality. She began her career as an original cast member of the long-running Sydney-based male revue Les Girls (pronounced lay-girls) cabaret show, which had an international following, starting in 1962 in Sydney's Kings Cross. Carlotta performed spot-numbers as a singer and comedian, and eventually became the show's compere and lead attraction. Although best known as a cabaret performer, she appeared in the television series Number 96 in 1974 as Miss Robyn Ross, in a comedic storyline as the girlfriend of Arnold Feather (Jeff Kevin) who unbeknown to him, she reveals that she is transgender, her appearance in the show is the first time a transgender actress played a transgender TV character anywhere in the world, in the series she was credited as Carole Lee In 2021, she announced that she is retiring from the industry after 62 years. In a statement from the newspaper Sydney Morning Herald, they cited Carlotta as much as an Australian legend in the vein of Don Bradman and Cate Blanchett. (en)
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- Carol Byron, (Carolle Lea,(Number 96) (en)
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- (en)
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- Beauty and the Beast (en)
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- The Naked Bunyip (en)
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- Carlotta (born 2 September 1943) is the stage name of Carol Byron AM, a transgender Australian cabaret performer and television personality. She began her career as an original cast member of the long-running Sydney-based male revue Les Girls (pronounced lay-girls) cabaret show, which had an international following, starting in 1962 in Sydney's Kings Cross. Carlotta performed spot-numbers as a singer and comedian, and eventually became the show's compere and lead attraction. (en)
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- Carlotta (performer) (en)
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