Terri Rogers, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Terri Rogers

English ventriloquist and magician

Date of Birth: 04-May-1937

Place of Birth: Ipswich, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 30-May-1999

Profession: Ventriloquist, magician

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Terri Rogers

  • Terri Rogers, born Ivan Southgate (4 May 1937 – 30 May 1999) was a transsexual English ventriloquist and magician. Rogers was born in Ipswich and was a somewhat isolated youth but determined to build a career in variety.
  • Rogers developed a technically highly proficient ventriloquism act with her ventriloquist figure Shorty Harris, first of all appearing as a supporting act in music hall in the 1950s.
  • Like her contemporary fellow ventriloquist Bobbie Kimber, she began life as a man but underwent gender reassignment surgery on the National Health Service in the early 1960s.
  • This brought her some short-lived notoriety but did not hamper her career.
  • Rogers won acclaim for her appearance in the 1968 review Boys Will be Girls at the Theatre Royal Stratford East and went on to become a highly regarded performer on the UK cabaret circuit.
  • She was the only variety act ever to appear at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club.
  • From 1974 onwards she was a regular, though somewhat incongruous, guest on TV on The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club.
  • She also appeared on BBC TV's long running Music Hall variety show, The Good Old Days.
  • Her cabaret career eventually extended internationally including appearances at Las Vegas and The Magic Castle in Hollywood, and on United States TV. Her work as a magician was always something of a sideline but she was an ingenious developer of magic tricks including illusions for David Copperfield and Paul Daniels.
  • She was an expert on "topology", the art of creating illusions with shapes, and wrote three standard texts on the subject.
  • She was particularly known for illusions with Borromean Rings. Rogers died in London after a series of strokes.
  • She was survived by her life partner Val Andrews, also a magician.

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