A big screen biopic of a a local lad and miner’s son who set the world of wrestling on fire with his cross-dressing antics and bad boy behaviour will premiere in his hometown’s cinema tonight (Thursday).

Brynmawr boy Adrian Street was the pumped-up peroxide pantomime villain with pigtails that crowds on both sides of the Atlantic loved to hate.

The story of his life, ‘You May Be Pretty, But I Am Beautiful’ will have its first screening at the oldest picture house in Wales - Brynmawr’s Market Hall Cinema.

The film directed by Newport’s Joann Randles, documents Street’s life from his early days in the valleys when he refused to follow his father down the mines, to his flamboyant heyday in the wrestling ring where he took on all-comers with a sly wink, a crafty smile, and a flirtatious flourish of his feather boa.

Street wasn’t just a championship winning wrestler, his fierce and unique sartorial influence has cast a long shadow over popular culture and he is credited with accidentally being the main midwife at the birth of glam rock. Cultural heavyweights such as Marc Bolan and Jeremy Deller have both paid homage to Street’s dizzying degree of style and guile.

Street himself is also no stranger to getting on the mic and giving it some. He once recorded his own album featuring songs with such memorable titles as ‘Sweet Transvestite With A Broken Nose’.

The 78-year old has recently returned to Cwmbran after spending decades in America.

He’ll be the special guest on the red carpet tonight alongside WWE’s Flash Morgan Webster, Eddie Dennis, Mark Andrews, Wild Boar and Original World of Sport and British wrestling legend Tony Scarlo.

‘You May Be Pretty, But I Am Beautiful: The Adrian Street Story’ will premiere at Brynmawr’s Market Hall Cinema at 7.30pm tonight.