Candis Cayne
Biography
Candis Cayne is an American actress and performance artist. Cayne performed in New York City nightclubs in drag since the 1990s, and came out as transgender in 1996; Cayne came to national attention in 2007 for portraying transgender mistress Carmelita on ABC's prime-time drama Dirty Sexy Money. The role makes Cayne the first transgender actress to play a recurring transgender character in primetime. She is perhaps best known for her recurring role as the Fairy Queen on the fantasy series The Magicians.
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Candis Cayne — movies and TV shows
8.2SeriesGrey's Anatomy
2005
7.5SeriesRuPaul's Drag Race
2009
7.6SeriesElementary
2012
7.2SeriesNip/Tuck
2003
7.3SeriesKeeping Up with the Kardashians
2007
7.3SeriesCSI: NY
2004
7.6SeriesThe Magicians
2015
7.7SeriesDrop Dead Diva
2009
6.4SeriesTransparent
2014
6.2SeriesDirty Sexy Money
2007
7.5FilmTo Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
1995
8.4SeriesHollywood Medium with Tyler Henry
2016
6.7SeriesVisible: Out on Television
2020
5.1SeriesI Am Cait
2015
7.8FilmDisclosure
2020
3.2SeriesThe House of Venus Show
2005
SeriesShe's Living for This
2012
7.0FilmWitchy Ways
2025
4.1FilmMeth Head
2013
3.6FilmCrazy Bitches
2014
3.2FilmMob Queen
1998
4.7FilmMaking the Boys
2011
6.6FilmI Hate New Year's
2020
7.7FilmThe Advocate Celebrates 50 Years: A Long Road to Freedom
2018
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4.5FilmStarz Inside: Sex and the Cinema
2009
5.8FilmStonewall
1995
FilmDragtime
1997
FilmHow Not to Be a Junkie
2022
5.8FilmWigstock: The Movie
1995
3.5FilmStarrbooty
2007
FilmThe Little House That Could
2013
4.2FilmAlways Something Better
1997
FilmHer Curve
2023
FilmGroom's Cake
2012
FilmLibanesa Loira
2008
FilmCandis for President
2018