Name
Candis Cayne
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1971-08-29 (55 years old)
Place of Birth
Maui, Hawaii, USA
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.
Known For
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Manhattan drag queens Vida Boheme and Noxeema Jackson impress regional judges in competiti...
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An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans fe...
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Rising music star Layne heads home to Nashville for New Year's Eve to break her writer's b...
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Before Prop 8, Milk or Will & Grace, before the AIDS epidemic, gay pride parades or the St...
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7 girls and 1 fab gay guy plan a getaway to a remote ranch for a week of gossip and grub. ...
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The three-decade-old annual Manhattan gathering of drag queens and their fans is portrayed...
- 2023 Her Curve
- 2013 Meth Head as Pinkie
- 1995 Stonewall as Diva 1
- 2022 How Not to Be a Junkie
- 2008 Libanesa Loira as Libanesa
- 2025 Witchy Ways as Penny
- 2014 Crazy Bitches as Vivianna
- 2012 Groom's Cake as Candis
- 1997 Dragtime as Self
- 1995 Wigstock: The Movie as Self
- 2011 Making the Boys as Self
- 1998 Mob Queen as Glorice Kalsheim
- 2018 The Advocate Celebrates 50 Years: A Long Road to Freedom as Self
- 2007 Starrbooty as Annaka Manners
- 2013 The Little House That Could as Self
- 1995 To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar as Candis Cayne
- 2020 I Hate New Year's as Zelena / Marley
- 2020 Disclosure as Self - Actress
- 2018 Candis for President
- 1997 Always Something Better as Billee
- 2009 Starz Inside: Sex and the Cinema as Self
- 2004 CSI: NY ( 1 episode ) as Quentin Conrad
- 2009 Drop Dead Diva ( 1 episode ) as Allison Webb
- 2012 Elementary ( 3 episodes ) as Ms. Hudson
- 2005 The House of Venus Show ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 2012 She's Living for This ( 1 episode ) as Candis Cayne / Various Characters
- 2009 RuPaul's Drag Race ( 3 episodes ) as Self - Choreographer
- 2015 The Magicians ( 9 episodes ) as Fairy Queen
- 2016 Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 2009 RuPaul's Drag Race ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest Judge
- 2005 Grey's Anatomy ( 2 episodes ) as Michelle Velez
- 2015 I Am Cait ( 15 episodes ) as Self
- 2007 Keeping Up with the Kardashians ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 2020 Visible: Out on Television ( 5 episodes ) as Self
- 2007 Dirty Sexy Money ( 11 episodes ) as Carmelita
- 2003 Nip/Tuck ( 2 episodes ) as Alexis Stone
- 2014 Transparent ( 1 episode ) as Jolene
