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April Ashley
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English model, actress, author, and activist (1935–2021)
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- Works
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Top works
- Silent Truth...
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Film & TV
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
April Ashley MBE (29 April 1935 – 27 December 2021), styled as The Honourable April Corbett from 1963 to 1980, was an English model, author, and LGBT rights activist. In the 1950s, upon being discharged from the Merchant Navy, she performed under the stage name Toni April at Le Carrousel de Paris in Paris. Ashley was outed as a transgender woman by The Sunday People newspaper in 1961 and was one…
Known for
- Enigma — Self2025
- The Extraordinary Life of April Ashley — Herself2022
- I Am a Woman Now — Herself2011
- Ligmalion: Or How to Help Yourself in Self-Help Britain — Self1985
- What Am I? — Self1980
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- April
- Gender
- trans woman
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Liverpool
- Place of death
- London
- Occupation
- film actor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Official website
- www.aprilashley.org
- Image
- An Evening With April Ashley at the Southbank Centre4.jpg
- Residence
- Fulham
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- April Ashley
- date of birth
- 1935-04-29
- date of death
- 2021-12-27
- name in native language
- April Ashley
- birth name
- George Jamieson
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