- Terri Rogers
Terri Rogers, born Ivan Southgate (
4 May 1937 -30 May 1999 ) was atranssexual Englishventriloquist andmagician .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 dolly Shorty Harris, first of all appearing as a supporting act inmusic hall in the 1950s. Like her contemporary fellow ventriloquistBobbie Kimber , she began life as a man but underwentgender reassignment surgery on theNational Health Service in the early 1960s. This brought her some shortlived notoriety but did not hamper her career. Rogers won acclaim for her appearance in the 1968 review "Boys Will be Girls" at theTheatre Royal Stratford East and went on to become a highly regarded performer on the UKcabaret circuit. She was the only variety act ever to appear atRonnie Scott's Jazz Club . From 1971 onwards she was a regular, though somewhat incongruous, guest onTV on the "The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club ". Her cabaret career eventually extended internationally including appearances at Las Vegas andThe Magic Castle inHollywood , and onUS TV.Her work as a magician was always something of a sideline but she was an ingenious developer of
magic trick s including illusions for David Copperfield andPaul 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 withBorromean rings .Rogers died in
London after a series ofstroke s. She was survived by her life partner Val Andrews, also a magician.Bibliography
* cite news | work=
The Times | date=1999-06-04 | title=Terri Rogers: Obituary | pages=25
* cite book | author=Britland, D. | title=Terri Rogers' Star Gate | year=1985 | publisher=Martin Breese | location=London
* cite book | author=Rogers, T. | publisher=Martim Breese | location=London | year=1986 | title=Secrets: The Original Magic of Terri Rogers
*— "The Boromian Link the Ultimate Linking Cards"External links
* [http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/109051 Page at
British Film Institute ]
*imdb name|1638263 Retrieved 2007-04-03
*Malcolm Hardee : cite web | title=Tribute from Terri Rogers | url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwoWugw8X_c | work=YouTube | accessdate=2008-08-07
* cite web | title=Wow cards - a brief history | author=Rowland, Ian | authorlink=Ian Rowland | accessdate=2008-08-08 | url=http://www.ianrowland.com/WowCards/WowCardsBriefHistory.html
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