Jorge Perez Evelyn is the stage name of Jorge Perez, an Argentine actor who rose to prominence in the 1980s as the first man-vedette in the famous Corrientes Avenue theatres of Buenos Aires. Until then, being a vedette was reserved only for those born women.
Career
Jorge Perez Evelyn left Argentina with a stop in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for a successful press conference. This press conference, prepared by producer Hugo De Freitas, aimed to make Evelyn known in the Brazilian theatre industry to star in a musical show after her contract in Venezuela ended. However, this never happened due to the success obtained in Caracas, which lasted longer than expected. The Brazil stop was followed by the musical in Caracas, Venezuela, a country that widely opened its arms to receive Evelyn. Soon he become the center o the press showing in the cover of all Venezuelan magazines. He did two musicals, “Noche de Gala” and “Gran Variety a lo Riviera”, produced by Joaquin Riviera; both productions lasted a full year.
Europe
Libertad Leblanc, an Argentinian movie star who is Jorge’s close friend, suggested to Evelyn not to miss Europe. Libertad screamed to the press in Europe: “Soon there will be arriving Evelyn, a stage artist produced in America, be ready to enjoy him”… The public, producers, and press critics that attended the Evelyn Show presentation in Cerebros Music Hall in Madrid, Spain (a presentation just for the media), as the Diario ABC de Madrid publishes in its column “Blanco y Negro” a photo of Evelyn with her dancers carrying her through the air that reads: “Evelyn is a great star thanks to a great Argentine actor Jorge Perez and comments under the photo: Evelyn is, simply, a great star who sings, dances, and does what she wants on stage. The International Evelyn Show is a revue in vaudeville style without a book, in which nothing has been neglected”. Spain’s press was so impressed by Jorge’s stage talent that a week later, he was on the cover of the Magazine Chiss.[19] They called Evelyn to be the successor of the English Actor Danny La Rue [20], and a contract followed the presentation for performing in European cities that lasted for three years, named the International Evelyn Show. EVELYN performed in several Music Halls, and as the Seville newspaper reads: “Oasis Seville” announces the sensation of America in Europe. Evelyn, the most beautiful woman in the world, is a man named Jorge Perez. Continuing with the newspaper Libertad of Valladolid, which also published an article named “I am a man, ” Jorge Perez Evelyn wants to clarify the issue. He flees from misunderstandings because he thinks that being a transvestite is a genre as worthy as any other [24] and continues all over Europe, including private millionaire’s parties at the Costa del Sol, discothèques and Theatres. After a successful tour in Italy, Jorge Perez Evelyn received the Riccione award as a foreign actor, with Walter Chiari as a national actor.
Back to America
America claimed Evelyn back in the 1999s, and after a long tour that lasted several years in Miami, Las Vegas and New York City shows, Jorge decided to put a stop to his career and settle in New York City and Long Island to help develop his lifetime partner Rodolfo Valentin[ his career. A chain of hair salons was opened in the New York City and Long Island, NY, area. As a result, Jorge has turned his former show-business life into an entrepreneur. Jorge Perez currently resides in New York.
Recently, in 2023, Jorge Perez Evelyn has been rediscovered, as seen in the Pagina 12 article “Evelyn’s silenced story”, on which Evelyn is also covered, that reads “after leaving the country due to censorship (which prevented him from starring alongside Olmedo in the film My Girlfriend El…, released in 1975, with Susana Giménez as his replacement), the actor Jorge Pérez Evelyn continued working around the world and at the end In the 90s he settled in New York. A third-generation artist –his mother and grandmother were vedettes-Pérez talks about exile, transphobia and hypocrisy in Argentine showbiz and the differences between cross-dressing and the drag universe. And it also tells the story of Evelyn, its most famous character, and the most persecuted, who is now rescued by proposals ranging from podcasts to exhibitions in national museums to a series soon to be seen on one of the important platforms”.
