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Born in Brussels, Belgium, [2] [3] Clementine de Vere was the eighth child of the British-born illusionist Herbert Shakespeare Gardiner Williams (1843-1931), [2] a popular conjurer and magician who took the stage name Charles de Vere, and his wife Julia de Vere (née Ferrett, 1852–1916), [2] who performed the first Oriental magic act under the name "Okita".
She has been featured repeatedly at the Melbourne Magic Festival. [9] She was named artist-in-residence at the Chicago Magic Lounge for 2019. [10] [11] She is a regular performer at The Magic Castle, in Hollywood, California, where she performs as “Lucy Darling,” a sharp-tongued magician character she partly bases on Dorothy Parker. [6]
She joined The Magic Circle, but was asked to leave when she began to transition. [4] When The Magic Circle voted to allow women members in 1991, she was one of the first women to join. [5] As Presto, Winter specialises in close-up magic, and had held a residency at London's Langan's Brasserie since the start of her magic career. [6]
Melinda Saxe (born March 6, 1965) is a magician from Las Vegas, Nevada.She is best known for her television performances and Las Vegas stage shows in which she was billed as "the First Lady of Magic".
Magician Dorothy Dietrich sawing celebrity assistant and comedian Robert Klein in half on TV. One female magician Dorothy Dietrich has turned the tables and used men as assistants, sawing them in half. Changes in fashion and great social upheavals during the first decades of the 20th century made Selbit's choice of "victim" both practical and ...
DeGuzman is the first female magician to become a runner-up on "America's Got Talent." Anna DeGuzman on "America's Got Talent" Now the magic continues for DeGuzman, as she was selected to ...
Dorothy Dietrich (born April 1, 1948 [1]) is an American stage magician and escapologist, best known for performing the bullet catch in her mouth (although Adelaide Herrmann reputedly did this earlier) and the first woman to perform a straitjacket escape while suspended hundreds of feet in the air from a burning rope.
Misty Lee was born in Mount Clemens, Michigan, and spent most of her childhood in Detroit, which she credits as inspiration for her unique sense of humor and interest in magic. She graduated from East Detroit High School where she was active in the arts and many theatrical productions. [1] Before her calling as a magician, Lee trained in ...