Cristina Ortiz, ‘la Veneno’-actress

Cristina Ortiz Rodríguez, known by her stage name La Veneno, was a Spanish actress, celebrity, model, prostitute and vedette. La Veneno was one of the first women to make the transsexual collective visible in Spain, and is recognized as one of the most important LGBT icons in her native country. She was a sexy and shameless bombshell who burst into Spanish entertainment in the middle of the decade of the 90s. She was brave and deceitful, that cost her her freedom and even her beauty, achieved after surgeries, makeup and divine hairstyles. She was born enclosed in a man’s body and died in a sad and strange way, just a month after her biography was published.