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- Birth nameRoberta Lucía Marrero Gutiérrez
- Roberta Marrero was born on March 2, 1972 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain. She was an actress, known for Descongélate! (2003), Fotos (1996) and Bebe: Ella (2004). She died on May 17, 2024 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
- On May 17, 2024, people close to the artist announced that Roberta Marrero had decided to commit suicide. She left a note that said "I love you all.".
- The main themes in her work are power, death, fame, love, and politics.
- In October 2022, on the occasion of Women Writers' Day, the Canary Islands government awarded her an honorary diploma in tribute to her work.
- In 2016, Marrero denounced British fashion designer Vivienne Westwood on social media, claiming that one of her works had been plagiarized on a shirt sold through Westwood's website. The designer and her husband Andreas Kronthaler responded that the image had been copied without knowledge that it was a work by a contemporary artist.
- In her 2016 book El bebé verde: infancia, transexualidad y héroes del pop, a graphic novel with a prologue by the writer Virginie Despentes, Marrero collects memories of her childhood and her transsexuality, explaining how the worldview of various artists from pop music, literature, and cinema inspired her, especially Boy George.
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