Meet Actress Talisa Garcia, Who’s Starring on Disney+ WillowThis article covers details about her partner, pre-surgery photo, age, parents, and career.
Read on to learn more about Talisa.
Talisa Garcia on Disney+ Willow
Transgender actress Talisa Garcia has been cast in an upcoming Disney+ series Willowis also a reboot. Willow is about a princess who sets out on a quest to find her twin brother. The original show aired in 1988. The spin-off is set years after the original story.
The actress will appear in the show as the queen and mother of Tony Revolori’s character. She also made history as the first openly transgender actress to be cast in a production by Disney-owned Lucasfilm.
Talisa Garcia Net Worth
According to some sources, Talisa Garcia has a net worth of over $500,000.
Talisa learned about a transgender actress through a doctor who diagnosed her as transgender. They gave her a book about James Bond actress Caroline Cossey. Caroline starred alongside Roger Moore in the 1981 film For your eyes only“Reading about this Bond girl who was a guy, it was like there was light at the end of the tunnel,” Talisa said. “If she can do it, I can do it.”
Talisa Garcia trained at the prestigious Sylvia Young Theatre School. She completed her MA in Acting at the London School of Education for the Arts in 2003. A year later, she began her acting career with uncredited roles.
She won the role of Suzi Bradley in Silent Witness (2004) was her first major role in her career. Some other films and television shows she appeared in are Doctor, Miracle Worker, Serve and Protect, Girlfriend Experience, DecodeAnd Gigi 33 along with a few others.
Another highlight of her career was her role as Kim Vogel in the BBC drama Pardoner.
The actress said she was cast in the BBC drama largely because there was no indication that she was a man. Talisa said: “With a lot of auditions for roles I’ve had in the past, I was always told I was ‘not trans enough’. But in Baptiste, you’re not supposed to know that she’s trans. She’s not explicitly trans.”
“With trans characters, it’s always been the same — a 6ft tall person with a wig that’s tilted to the side. Luckily, we’ve gotten through it,” Talisa says. “Now, with Baptiste, I feel really relieved that everyone knows. It’s a weight off my shoulders.”
Does Talisa Garcia have a partner?
After all, Talisa Garcia is a beautiful transgender woman, and men always flirt with her. However, she has never shared anything about herself with them.
She has been open about her dating life with Sun“They will start thinking of a million scenarios of what is going on ‘down there.’”
“They don’t know how good this operation is,” Talisa added. “When I slept with men and after a few months of it, I told them. They said, ‘That’s impossible, I know. There’s no operation that can do that.’”
Talisa claims that her previous partners did not care whether she was a man or not. However, not all the men she had relationships with accepted her. She recalls one man reacted so badly that his family chased her out of the town where she lived at the time, threatening to mutilate and kill her.
But Talisa says, “The survival instinct is ingrained in my DNA.”
As of 2022, Talisa appears to be single based on her social media posts.
Talisa Garcia Before Surgery
In 1991, Talisa Garcia began taking illegal female hormones that she received from elders in the transgender community. Her facial hair stopped growing and her breasts began to develop. With the support of her parents, Talisa Garcia was able to undergo full gender reassignment surgery when she turned 18. She described the six-hour surgery as “dangerous and brutal.”
Her mother’s hands shook as she signed a series of consent forms, and she remembered her mother asking her several times if she was sure.
Talisa Garcia before surgery (Photo: The Sun)
Talisa revealed to Sun“When I was little, people used to call me ‘boy girl’ and ‘sissy’. I used to wear lip gloss and was the only boy in my ballet school. But no one bullied me. All the tough kids in school were my best friends.”
“My parents told me, ‘When you were three or four, we knew you were different.’ But they thought I was going to be gay,” the actress added. “When I was six or seven, I was playing with dolls. I didn’t want to cut my hair and I kept asking why girls wore dresses but I had to wear shorts.”
The surgery allowed her to accept her gender and start a new career as an actress.
Talisa Garcia Height
Talisa Garcia stands just under 5 feet 7 inches tall.
How old is Talisa Garcia?
As of April 2022, Talisa Garcia is 48 years old. She was born during the 1973 coup in Chile.
Talisa Garcia Family
Talisa Garcia is a Chilean-born actress who was separated from her parents for the rest of her life during the chaos that left hundreds dead. She has no idea what happened to her biological parents.
Her adoptive parents, a university lecturer mother and an engineer father, found her on the streets of Chile. Her family fled Chile in 1977 and eventually settled in Swansea. When she was 13, she moved to London because she could no longer live in a man’s body.
“I became depressed and tried to commit suicide,” Talisa said. “I took sleeping pills and cut my wrists. I wanted a vagina.”
“When I woke up in the hospital, they asked, ‘Why did you do that?’ I said, ‘I’m not happy because I want to be a woman and I can’t. The doctors told my parents, ‘No matter what happens, this child will commit suicide if you don’t do something.’ I couldn’t live as a man. In the hospital, I wanted to jump out of the window. I wasn’t afraid of dying.”
She was later admitted to a psychiatric ward and said “it was the best thing that ever happened to me”.
Talisa featured her mother in posts in September and October 2016. Based on her IG, her mother turned 90 in January 2022. She also has a brother who she featured on her IG in January 2021.
Birth Name of Talisa Garcia
Talisa Garcia’s birth name is Joseph. Puerto Rican model and actress Talisa Soto served as the inspiration for her new name, a Bond girl in 1989. License to Kill. Mirror.co.uk She was raised as Jose by middle-class adoptive parents.
The paper reported that at school, she would tie a cardigan around her waist and pretend it was a dress, wearing her mother’s clothes, high heels and makeup. Her classmates called her ‘Josie’.
Related FAQs
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When is Talisa Garcia’s birthday?
Talisa Garcia celebrates her birthday on May 14.
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Where is Talisa Garcia from?
Talisa Garcia grew up in Wales. She has lived in England since she was four years old. She now lives in London.
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Is Talisa Garcia on Instagram?
Meet Talisa Garcia on Instagram (@talisagarcia1) and Twitter (@talisagarcia1).