Eva Robin's
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) is a transgender
Transgender
Transgender is a general term applied to a variety of individuals, behaviors, and groups involving tendencies to vary from culturally conventional gender roles....
Italian actress and activist. She was born male and developed extremely feminine features naturally. She considers herself an androgynous individual, rather than transsexual. She says that while she "was an apparently 'normal' boy growing up, at puberty she developed breasts and her body failed to masculinize like the other boys", which indicated an intersex
Intersex
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condition. She felt that she was meant to be a woman, and changed her name accordingly.
Contrary to conflicting mentions, Eva currently does spell her last name with an apostrophe in it. She took her nom de plume
Pen name
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from a character in Italy's Diabolik
Diabolik
Diabolik is a fictional character, an anti-hero featured in Italian comics. He was created by sisters Angela and Luciana Giussani in 1962. His stories appear in monthly black and white digest-sized booklets. The character was inspired by several previous characters from Italian and French pulp...
comics, Eva Kant
Eva Kant
Eva Kant is a fictional character in the Italian comics series starring the anti-hero Diabolik. She first appeared in Diabolik #3 .-Fictional character biography:Eva is the girlfriend and sidekick of criminal mastermind Diabolik...
, and writer Harold Robbins
Harold Robbins
Harold Robbins was one of the best-selling American authors of all time. During his career, he wrote over 25 best-sellers, selling over 750 million copies in 32 languages....
. She later saw the name "Robbins" spelled as "Robin's" and decided to take on that particular spelling.
Filmography
- La cerimonia dei sensi (1979)
- Eva man (Due sessi in uno) (1980)
- El regreso de Eva Man (1982)
- TenebraeTenebrae (film)Tenebrae is a 1982 Italian horror thriller film written and directed by Dario Argento. The film stars Anthony Franciosa, John Saxon, and Daria Nicolodi...
(1982) - Hercules (1983 film)Hercules (1983 film)Hercules is a 1983 Italian adventure film written and directed by Luigi Cozzi. The film follows the exploits of Hercules.Part of the adventure finds Hercules battling giant robots brought to life by stop motion animation. The musical score was provided by Pino Donaggio.Despite not being a critical...
(1983) - Le avventure dell'incredibile Ercole (1985)
- Lupo solitario - TV series (1987)
- Mascara (1987)
- Massacre Play (1989)
- Gioco al massacro (1989)
- Valentina - TV series (1989)
- L'odisseaL'OdisseaL'Odissea was an Italian TV miniseries broadcast on RAI in 1968 and based on Homer's Odyssey. An Italian, Yugoslavian, German and French coproduction, it was directed by Franco Rossi, Piero Schivazappa and Mario Bava; the cast included Bekim Fehmiu as Ulysses and Irene Papas as Penelope.Each...
- TV movie (1991) - Belle al bar (1994)
- Luna e l'altra (1996)
- Il primo estratto (1997)
- I miei più cari amici (1998)
- Il bello delle donneIl bello delle donneIl bello delle donne is an Italian television series....
- TV series (2002) - Cattive inclinazioni (2003)
- Di che peccato sei? - TV movie (2007)
- Il segreto di Rahil (2007)
- Tutte le donne della mia vita (2007)
- Andres and me (2007)