Name	Immodesty Blaize
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Her ethnic heritage is described as being "mixed European with a little Mediterranean, Eastern, and a drop of Irish"[3]. Inspired by films such as Gypsy, and glamorous strong women such as Grace Jones, she originally worked in TV production, and won an award for directing commercials for the Nobel Prizes. Immodesty has been performing burlesque in London since the mid 90s. She recalls, "I really was working in a vacuum. Very few people knew what it was, and I had a hard job to convince people that I wasn’t going to do the classic Stringfellows stripper."[4]
Immodesty did her shows on the underground scene in the early years for example performance art nights on Brick Lane and has since been credited as one of the instigators of the burlesque rennaissance[5]. Immodesty brought a mainstream profile to the genre in Britain, garnering much press for her elaborate theatrical shows and expensive costumes. She performed largely at celebrity, fashion, and art events. In 2003 She left her day job of producing and directing commercials and Immodesty became a full time burlesque sensation. Her live shows with Goldfrapp in 2003, her 5 month West End show run in 2005, and her mentor role in prime time Channel 4 documentary "Faking It" truly brought the genre out of underground clubs and into a mainstream audience. Immodesty is best known for her signature act with an enormous rocking horse, but has many other shows including with her giant telephone, a giant Spanish fan, a crystal bubble bath, and her signature oversized powder puffs, which was her original act that won her the crown at Las Vegas' Burlesque Hall of Fame in 2007.
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