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Abigail Pereira

Uruguayan actress, showgirl, and dancer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 4, 2025
Entity authorityQ20704242 ↗
Source-derived summary

Abigail Pereira Ávila (born 27 January 1986) is a Uruguayan artist, actress, vedette, singer, and dancer.

Biography

The daughter of Graciela Ávila and Walter Pereira, Abigail Pereira has appeared on several television programs such as El show del mediodía, Bailando por un Sueño 2007, and Yo soy el artista. She was on the cover of the magazine Semanario in 2007.

], in 2007, Pereira managed to change her name on her identity card and passport. In 2013 her birth certificate was rectified in the Civil Registry, where many changes like this are not accepted. In 2009 she suffered a health breakdown.

Currently working for the Telemundo network and residing in Miami, United States, Pereira became the first trans Uruguayan to have permanent resident by extraordinary ability documents as a woman in the United States.

In 2012, she became a spokesperson in ads for the Uruguayan Consular Card (TCU). Pereira was a contestant on Telemundo's Yo Soy El Artista in 2014, and in 2015, she appeared in the Brazilian film Neon Bull.

Editorial summary

“Abigail Pereira” enters the record as uruguayan actress, showgirl, and dancer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Abigail, Pereira and Uruguayan can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1986, 2007, 2013, 2009—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1986-01-27. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Abigail, Pereira and Uruguayan.
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Why this record matters

“Abigail Pereira” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Abigail, Pereira and Uruguayan provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 4, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q20704242. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1986, 2007, 2013 and 2009.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Abigail Pereira” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.