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Candis Cayne
Actor, Director, Writer, ProducerBorn August 29, 1971 (54 years)
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.
Candis Cayne Filmography
| 2024 | Witchy Ways · as Penny |
| 2020 | I Hate New Year's · as Zelena / Marley |
| 2019 | Crazy Bitches (TV Series) · as Vivianna |
| 2018 | |
| 2016 | Heartbeat (2016) (TV Series) · as Ava |
| 2015 | The Magicians (2015) (TV Series) · as Fairy Queen |
| 2014 | Crazy Bitches · as Vivianna |
| 2014 | Transparent (TV Series) · as Jolene |
| 2013 | Meth Head · as Pinkie |
| 2012 | Elementary (TV Series) · as Ms. Hudson |
| 2012 | She's Living for this (TV Series) · as Candis Cayne / Various Characters |
| 2011 | Necessary Roughness (TV Series) · as Geraldine |
| 2009 | Drop Dead Diva (TV Series) · as Allison Webb |
| 2008 | Sordid Lives: The Series (TV Series) · as Therapist #19 |
| 2007 | Dirty Sexy Money (TV Series) · as Carmelita |
| 2007 | Starrbooty · as Annaka Manners |
| 2005 | Grey's Anatomy (TV Series) · as Michelle Velez |
| 2004 | CSI: NY (TV Series) · as Quentin Conrad |
| 2003 | |
| 1998 | |
| 1997 | Never Look Back · as Billee |
| 1995 | Stonewall · as Diva 1 |
| 1994 | New York Undercover (TV Series) · as Tamaray |
| 2023 | Candis Cayne's Secret Garden (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2021 | The Sherry Vine Variety Show (TV Series) · as Candis Cayne |
| 2020 | Disclosure · as Self - Actress |
| 2020 | Visible: Out on Television (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2018 | |
| 2017 | Detox's Life Rehab (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2016 | Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2015 | I Am Cait (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2014 | Hey Qween! (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2013 | The Real Daytime (TV Series) · as Self - Guest Co-Hostess |
| 2013 | The Little House That Could · as Self |
| 2011 | Making the Boys · as Self |
| 2010 | Access Hollyood Live (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2010 | RuPaul's Drag U (TV Series) · as Self - Faculty |
| 2009 | Starz Inside: Sex and the Cinema · as Self |
| 2009 | Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (TV Series) · as Self - Bartender |
| 2009 | RuPaul's Drag Race (TV Series) · as Self - Choreographer |
| 2008 | 2008 American Music Awards · as Self - Audience |
| 2008 | The Real Housewives of Atlanta (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2008 | New Now Next Awards · as Self - Host |
| 2007 | Keeping Up with the Kardashians (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2007 | What Perez Sez (TV Series) · as Self (2007) |
| 2007 | Chelsea Lately (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2007 | Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2005 | The House of Venus Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2004 | The Insider (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1997 | Dragtime · as Self |
| 1997 | The View (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1996 | Access Hollywood (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1995 | To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar · as Candis Cayne |
| 1995 | Wigstock: The Movie · as Self |
| 1988 | Inside Edition (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1981 | Entertainment Tonight (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1975 | Good Morning America (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2023 | Candis Cayne's Secret Garden (TV Series) |
| 2023 | Candis Cayne's Secret Garden (TV Series) |
| 2018 | Candis for President · as Executive Producer |