Ursula Martinez

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Ursula Martinez (* 1966 ) is a British actress , performance artist and cabaret artist.

She was born to a Mexican father and an English mother, studied theater at Lancaster University and began her solo career as a performance artist and cabaret artist in the London club and cabaret scene in the 1990s . In 1998 she had success at an event in Edinburgh with an original, autobiographical account called A Family Outing , in which her parents also participated. In 2000 she performed with the piece Show Off on a tour in Sydney , Edinburgh and Hong Kong, among others . In 2006 she completed her trilogy called Me Me Me! With OAP . at the Barbican Center in London . In 2007 she performed Office Party at the Barbican .

She showed her performances at numerous cabaret appearances. Best known was Hanky ​​Panky , a mixture of magic and striptease , backed by Henry Mancini's A Shot In the Dark , the music from A Shot in the Dark , a film in the Pink Panther series . Also the revealing fire eater number Light My Fire and the flamenco interpretation Viva Croydon! . Martinez produced several short films.

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literature

  • Jacki Willson: The happy stripper: pleasures and politics of the new burlesque . I. B. Tauris, 2008, p. 36 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
personal data
SURNAME Martinez, Ursula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British performance artist and cabaret artist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century