Candis Cayne
Acting
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.
As actor 36
Grey's Anatomy
2005
RuPaul's Drag Race
2009
Elementary
2012
CSI: NY
2004
Nip/Tuck
2003
Keeping Up with the Kardashians
2007
The Magicians
2015
Drop Dead Diva
2009
Transparent
2014
Dirty Sexy Money
2007
Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry
2016
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
1995
The House of Venus Show
2005
Visible: Out on Television
2020
I Am Cait
2015
Dragtime
1997
Disclosure
2020
Starrbooty
2007
She's Living for This
2012
Mob Queen
1998
Witchy Ways
2025
Stonewall
1995
Meth Head
2013
Starz Inside: Sex and the Cinema
2009
Her Curve
2023
The Advocate Celebrates 50 Years: A Long Road to Freedom
2018
Crazy Bitches
2014
Groom's Cake
2012
Making the Boys
2011
I Hate New Year's
2020
Wigstock: The Movie
1995
Always Something Better
1997
Libanesa Loira
2008
How Not to Be a Junkie
2022
The Little House That Could
2013
Candis for President
2018