Marie-Pierre Pruvot

Bambi
Protagonist in
BAMBI

Born as Jean-Pierre Pruvot in an Algerian village in 1935. Her independent way started with the emigration to Paris after witnessing a revue of the Cabaret Carrousel de Paris in Algiers in the fifties. As "Bambi" she successfully danced and sang on the stages of music-halls, became a show star and changed her name to Marie-Pierre. Together with her scene friend Coccinelle she was one of the first transsexuals self-confidently approaching an ideal of her desired body with hormones and plastic surgery. Beyond the passion for live shows, she appeared in movies and documentaries. At the age of about 30 she also studied at the Sorbonne in Paris and began to teach literature in 1974. 
Films as protagonist (selection): I AM A WOMAN NOW (2011), LE SEXE DE MON IDENTITÉ (2012)