Candis Cayne
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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
Credits
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995)
as Candis Cayne
Disclosure (2020)
as Self - Actress
Witchy Ways (2025)
as Penny
The Advocate Celebrates 50 Years: A Long Road to Freedom (2018)
as Self
Starz Inside: Sex and the Cinema (2009)
as Self
Dragtime (1997)
as Self
Stonewall (1995)
as Diva 1
Starrbooty (2007)
as Annaka Manners
Meth Head (2013)
as Pinkie
Mob Queen (1998)
as Glorice Kalsheim
The Little House That Could (2013)
as Self
Crazy Bitches (2014)
as Vivianna
I Hate New Year's (2020)
as Zelena / Marley
Wigstock: The Movie (1995)
as Self
How Not to Be a Junkie (2022)
Actor
Groom's Cake (2012)
as Candis
Libanesa Loira (2008)
as Libanesa
Her Curve (2023)
Actor
Making the Boys (2011)
as Self
Always Something Better (1997)
as Billee
Candis for President (2018)
Actor