Dolly Van Doll, stage name Carla Follis, was born in Turin (Italy) in 1938, at the dawn of the Second World War. Living childhood among bombs, hunger, and fear, can be reason enough to mark any human being and drag that trauma through a lifetime, but Carla has always managed to be reborn from the ashes of all the calamities with which she had to survive.
She was able to achieve not only the professional glory that her artistic talent gave her, but also achieve the happiness worked, sought, and achieved as a person. She was born Carlo Angelo Fernando, but in 1964 she went to Casablanca where she underwent gender reassignment surgery.
According to Zagria, in the 1970s Dolly got married to her partner Fernando and stayed in Catalonia for the rest of her life. Dolly became a successful businesswoman and performer. She traveled to Tokyo, Paris and Berlin, implementing many elements of kabuki, cabaret, lyric theatre into her shows. In 1982 they opened a second Belle Époque in Barcelona. In 1988 she was in the film Entreacte, which was partly filmed at the Belle Époque. Shortly afterwards the Valencia venue was closed. The Barcelona one ran until 1995.
Carla and Fernando later divorced, but remained good friends.
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