 Talisa Luci
(or Talisa Garcia)
is a Chilean-born British passport holding transsexual woman.
She was born Jose
Garcia in Santiago, Chile, in 1970, but from a young age he played as a girl
in games and wanted to be a "maiden". He moved to London in 1978 with
her mother after her parents divorced.
After joining a
children's stage school he got her first acting break in the early 1980'sas
a teenage boy in BBC's school yard children's soap Grange Hill.
She also sang on the Just Say No anti-drugs record and video made by
the cast.
 Increasingly desperate about having a male rather than female
puberty, he attempted
suicide before being allowed to have hormone treatment and
transition. She
had SRS at the young age
of
19 and began a career as a minor actress
and model. This was brought to an abrupt halt
in 1993 when the Sun newspaper linked the attractive
twenty-something to her
male past. Her shocked boyfriend,
Terry, said that he
had never had the slightest suspicion, his only complaint had been that she often didn't
wear any panties under her dresses and she was always wanting
sex!
After entering a serious relationship with another boyfriend
Talisa tried to go stealth and for example she appealed for
web sites to remove information about her.
In 2003 she re-launched her career as an actress when she graduated from the
ArtsEd School of Acting with an M.A. in acting. A number of
small roles followed, perhaps most notably in 2004 she appeared in BBC
crime drama Silent Witness as the transsexual woman Suzanne Bradley in the two episodes
"Body 21" - it's unclear whether the casting team knew of her past! .In
July 2005 she was again out'ed, this time by the Sunday People newspaper in relation to an affair
she was having with television presenter John Leslie - much to the annoyance of his
pregnant girlfriend, Rachel Bentley. Since then Talisa has featured in several other newspaper
articles, in one she admits "I want sex all the time - you could say I'm a
bit of a sex maniac ... I know my body turned him [John] on. Many men
say it's the best they have ever seen."
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