Ajita Victoria Wilson"United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages, 1980-2015", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV53-T7G8 : Mon Jan 20 16:54:02 UTC 2025), Entry for Ajita Victoria Wilson and Mrs Florine White, 29 May 1987. (January 12, 1950 – May 26, 1987) was an American transgender actress who starred in European exploitation and hardcore films in the 1970s and 1980s.
Biography Wilson was born in either Brooklyn, New York City or Flint, Michigan"United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages, 1980-2015", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV53-T7PX : Sat Jul 13 21:59:56 UTC 2024), Entry for Ajita Victoria Wilson and Florine White, 29 May 1987. on January 12, 1950, to Florine, a white Brazilian, and James A. Wilson, an African-American, and assigned male at birth. She began her career as a drag entertainer in the red-light district of New York and underwent gender reassignment surgery in the early 1970s. She was discovered by photographer Bill King, who made her an international model and allowed her to travel the world. Wilson later decided to move to Italy and settled in Milan. In 1976, she took part in her first film, The Nude Princess by Cesare Canevari, inspired by the life of Princess Elizabeth of Tooro. She worked with many genre directors such as Bruno Mattei and Jesús Franco, in erotic and later pornographic films. Many of her Italian films were shot in two versions, one censored for the national market, a more explicit one for the foreign market. Ajita Wilson appeared in the August 20, 1981 issue of African-American weekly Jet Magazine as their Beauty of The Week. In her last years she performed as a singer. Wilson died from a brain hemorrhage that followed a car accident in Rome, Italy on May 26, 1987, at age 37. Her body was transported to the United States and cremated according to the actress's instructions.
Partial filmography
The Nude Princess (1976) - Princess Mariam Gola profonda nera (1977) - Claudine Sylvia im Reich der Wollust (1977) - Cula Caballé La sorprendente eredità del tontodimammà (1977) Mavri Aphroditi (English titles: Black Aphrodite and Blue Passion) (1977) - Tamara La bravata (1977) - Jeanette D'improvviso al terzo piano (1977) Amori morbosi di una contessina (1977) L'amour chez les poids lourds (English title: Truck Stop) (1978) - Calypso (uncredited) Follie Di Notte aka Joe D'Amato – Follie Di Notte (1978) - Sex Show Performer Le notti porno nel mondo nº 2 (English title: Scandinavian Erotica) (1978) - Stewardess Proibito erotico (English title: Erotic Fantasies) (1978) - Julie Adolescenza morbosa (1978) Bactron 317 ou L'espionne qui venait du show (1979) - Barbara Una donna di notte (1979) Pensione amore - SerVizio completo (1979) - Karina Libidine (1979) - Mary Los Energéticos (1979) - Carla Eros Perversion (1979) - Antonia Escape from Hell (1980) - Zaira The Smugglers (1980) - Luisa Orinoco: Prigioniere del sesso (1980) - Muriel Eva man (Due sessi in uno) (1980) - Ajita Pensieri Morbosi (English title: Deep Thoughts) (1980) - Prostitute Sadomania (1981) - Magda Hurtado / Man Having Sex with Lucas Pasiones desenfrenadas (1981) - Enrica Erotiki ekstasi (1981) - Sara Erotiko pathos (1981) - Samantha Apocalipsis sexual (1982) - Liza Bacanales romanas (1982) - Venus de Ébano Catherine Chérie (1982) - Ajita (1982) - Monika El regreso de Eva Man (1982) - Ajita Orgia stin Kerkyra (English Title: The Pussycat Syndrome) (1983) - Donna Washington Macumba sexual (1983) - Princesa Obongo La doppia bocca di Erika (1983) - Erika Corpi nudi (1983) Anomaloi erotes sti santorini (1983) Perverse oltre le sbarre (1984) - Conchita Detenute violente (1984) - Eureka Thompson To mikrofono tis Alikis (1984) (1984) Stin Athina simera... oles ton pernoun fanera! (1984) Kai to proto pinelo (1984) Idones sto Aigaio (1984) - Ajita Savage Island (1985) - Marla (archive footage) Bocca Bianca Bocca Nera (1986) - Ramona Diakopes Stin Idra (English Title: Holidays in Hydra) (1986) - (final film role)
References
External links
Created By Cinema: The Enigma of Ajita Wilson (The Grindhouse Effect)