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Francisca Aracil Cáceres (born June 1, 1962), professionally known as Paca la Piraña, is a Spanish actress and vedette. She identifies as a transsexual woman.


Career

La Piraña's began her career in the 1980s, when she performed in nightclubs while imitating musical acts. In the 1990s, she moved to Elda,
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, for work, where she dedicated herself to cross-dressing. Later, she became more widely known in Spain after her introduction on television as the friend of
La Veneno Cristina Ortiz Rodríguez (19 March 1964 – 9 November 2016), better known as ('The Poison'), was a Spanish singer, actress, sex worker, and media personality. Considered one of the more important and beloved LGBT icons in Spain since her dea ...
, a fellow Spanish actress and performer. In 2020, she returned to the public eye by appearing as herself in '' Veneno'', a TV series aired on
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about the life of La Veneno. In 2023, a third part of ''Veneno'' was announced, called ''Piraña'', that would focus on her life. Due to the popularity of ''Veneno'', she and the other protagonists were honored during the 2020 Madrid Pride. In 2021, a subsequent miniseries, ''Paca la Piraña, ¿dígame?'', was aired, starring La Piraña. Later that same year, she featured in ''Paca te lleva al huerto'', a series where she interviewed Spanish celebrities about various topics. In December 2020, she was a guest presenter alongside Marc Giró on ''Feliz Año Neox''. In 2021, she was a guest judge on the first season of ''
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''. From 2021 to 2023, she toured with Supremme de Luxe and ''Drag Race España'' contestants as part of the stage production ''El Gran Hotel de Las Reinas.''


Personal life

La Piraña was born in
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,
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. When she was seven, she and her family lived for a brief while in Germany. She lived in Marchalenes, Valenicia, until 2017 when she returned to her hometown of Almería to take care of her mother. She first met La Veneno after they met during a performance at a nightclub in Torremolinos, but it wasn't until three years later at that they met again, this time at a park in
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.


Filmography


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