Sentences with phrase «first gender reassignment surgeries»

The film tells that story of Lili Elbe (Redmayne), who lived as a woman for years before undergoing one of the very first gender reassignment surgeries.

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After a rocky life in the South, a Brooklyn resident, Kricket Nimmons, became one of the first New Yorkers to undergo gender reassignment surgery paid for by Medicaid.

The Danish Girl tells the story of Einar Wegener, the first person to undergo gender - reassignment surgery, becoming Lili Elbe.

Director Tom Hooper and star Alicia Vikander of The Danish Girl — a biopic about Lili Elbe, one of the first people to undergo gender reassignment surgery — talk to Benjamin Lee about the rise of transgender stories, the controversy over casting cis - gender actor Eddie Redmayne in the lead role and whether they're nervous about how the trans community will receive the film

But it would ultimately be her emotionally hefty supporting part in The Danish Girl — the story of Einar Wegener / Lili Elbe, one of the world's first recipients of gender reassignment surgery, in which she played Gerda Wegener, wife of Einar / Lili — that would earn her serious attention from the Academy.

It stars Eddie Redmayne in the lead role as Lili Ebe — one of the first known persons to undergo male to female gender reassignment surgery — and it's arguably an even baitier role than last year's Stephen Hawking.

Elbe may have been a pioneer — she was among the first to undergo then highly dangerous gender reassignment surgery — but her story seems a familiar and unsurprising one, right down to the hospital psychiatrists who believe that she is insane.

Based on David Ebershoff's fictionalised account of Elbe's life, the story follows Danish painter Einar Wegener's journey from posing in women's clothes for his wife Gerda (Alicia Vikander) after her model failed to show up, to becoming one of the first people to undergo gender reassignment surgery.

But now, with the drama The Danish Girl — a story about one of the world's first people to undergo gender reassignment surgery — Hooper looks on track to land right back in that Oscar sweet spot.

Actor Matthias Schoenaerts is confident his THE DANISH GIRL co-star Eddie Redmayne will be a frontrunner once again at the 2016 Oscars for his portrayal of transsexual Einar Wegener, one of the world's first - known recipients of gender reassignment surgery.

Redmayne reunites with his «Les Miserables» director Tom Hooper as Lili Elbe, a Nordic pioneer from the «30s who received one of the first known gender reassignment surgeries, in «The Danish Girl,» which received a nearly 10 - minute ovation in Venice.