1. Le Pustra was born on 1 July 1977 and is an actor, singer, salonnier and self proclaimed kunstfigur.
21 Facts About Le Pustra
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Le Pustra has performed in European Cabaret and Variete since 2006 but is best known for his role as Edwina Morell in the neo-noir German television series Babylon Berlin.
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Le Pustra was born in Cape Town, South Africa and relocated to the United Kingdom in 2000 to pursue a career in musical theatre in London.
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In 2006, Le Pustra emerged onto the London underground Cabaret and Variete scene appearing in different guises at numerous Club Nights, Cabarets, Festivals and Burlesque events.
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In 2011, Le Pustra created a contemporary reimagining of the Berliner Kabarett during the Weimar Culture interwar years in Berlin.
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Le Pustra's character was partly inspired by dancer Anita Berber and Marlene Dietrich.
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In 2022, Kabarett der Namenlosen was featured in Babylon Berlin Season 4, with Le Pustra reprising his role as Edwina Morell.
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In 2020, Le Pustra made his television debut as Edwina Morell, a sinister cross-dressing souteneur of the Luxor nightclub in the award-winning German crime drama Babylon Berlin Season 3.
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Le Pustra will join the band and German actor Benno Furmann as a special guest for the 2025 13-date German tour entitled Der Nasse Fisch, written by Volker Kutscher.
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In 2015, Le Pustra appeared in Director Shelly Love's unfinished fantasy short film The Fallen Circus playing a latex-clad villain and can be heard on the film's score as a guest musical saw player accompanying The Irrepressibles.
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Le Pustra's costume was designed by Oliver Garcia who have worked on films such as Maleficent and Hugo.
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In 2018, Le Pustra appeared on Anthony Bourdain's Parts Unknown Season 11 which aired on CNN.
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Le Pustra appeared in the 2007 music video Starz in their Eyes by British recording artist Just Jack.
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Between 2006 and 2015, Le Pustra performed in numerous cabaret and variety shows as a sideshow and comedic performer.
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In early 2011, Le Pustra co-produced and wrote a Vaudevillian all-male show entitled 'Villains' which was produced in Rome's Teatro Palladium.
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On 23 October 2012, Le Pustra was invited by Amanda Palmer to join a live musical saw performance and accompanying Neil Gaiman's live rendition of Leon Payne's song "Psycho".
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In 2010, Le Pustra produced and directed a fashion video for Serbian designer Marko Mitanovski which were screened at London Fashion Week, London's Selfridges and Malaysian International Fashion Week.
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That same year Le Pustra walked in London Fashion Week for designer Ziad Ghanem and was invited back the following year.
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Le Pustra modelled for fashion designer Ivana Pilja in 2013 and they collaborated for Berlin Alternative Fashion Week in September 2015 and March 2016.
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In 2020, Le Pustra co-authored a chapter with Dr Anna-Sophie Jurgens for the book Circus and the Avant-Gardes: History, Imaginary, Innovation published by Routledge.
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Le Pustra has participated as a guest speaker for various Educational Institutions including UCLA, Goethe-Institut, CIEE in Berlin, Humboldt University of Berlin, The Australian National University and Freie Universitat Berlin.