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News and Events => Arts & Entertainment News => Topic started by: Stevie on February 29, 2016, 11:12:04 AM

Title: Holly Woodlawn honored at Oscars
Post by: Stevie on February 29, 2016, 11:12:04 AM
 Holly Woodlawn was honored in the memorial segment of the Oscars presentation.

Transgender actress Holly Woodlawn gets historic shout-out at the Oscars

http://fusion.net/story/274780/holly-woodlawn-oscars-in-memoriam/

Fusion/by Jorge Rivas | February 29, 2016 11:42 a.m.

"After a battle with brain and liver cancer Woodlawn passed away in December, 6, 2015 in Los Angeles. She was 69.

Woodlawn rose to fame acting in films produced by Andy Warhol. She was born in Juana Díaz, P.R., on Oct. 26, 1946 to a Puerto Rican mother and a U.S. soldier of German descent who left his wife soon after the wedding, according to The New York Times."