Candis Cayne
Acting
August 29, 1971
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.
Movies
Witchy Ways
2024
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
1995
Disclosure
2020
Making the Boys
2011
Stonewall
1995
Starrbooty
2007
Groom's Cake
2012
Her Curve
2023
Always Something Better
1997
Candis for President
2018
Wigstock: The Movie
1995
Meth Head
2013
I Hate New Year's
2020
Dragtime
1997
Crazy Bitches
2014
Libanesa Loira
2008
Mob Queen
1998
How Not to Be a Junkie
2022
The Advocate Celebrates 50 Years: A Long Road to Freedom
2018
The Little House That Could
2013
TV Shows
Grey's Anatomy
2005
Elementary
2012
CSI: NY
2004
RuPaul's Drag Race
2009
RuPaul's Drag Race
2009
Keeping Up with the Kardashians
2007
Nip/Tuck
2003
The Magicians
2015
Drop Dead Diva
2009
Transparent
2014
Dirty Sexy Money
2007
Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry
2016
Visible: Out on Television
2020
I Am Cait
2015
The House of Venus Show
2005
She's Living for This
2012