Transgender and transsexual actors (Part 2)

Candis Cayne  

Candis Cayne is an American actress and performance artist.
Known in the New York City nightclub scene since the 1990s, 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 prime time

   

Cayne, known as Brendan McDaniel prior to her transition, and fraternal twin brother Dylan were born in 1971 in Maui where their parents taught at a Waldorf school, and the family lived on campus. McDaniel graduated from Maui's Baldwin High School in 1989 and then spent a year in Los Angeles, where she trained as a dancer.

McDaniel moved to New York in the early 1990s, making a name for herself as a choreographer and drag performer. Unaware of "what a transsexual was" until she lived in New York, about three years after her arrival McDaniel realized that the term described how she felt about herself.Already performing as "Candis Cayne" at New York gay bar Boy Bar and as a featured performer at Tour in New York's Chelsea, the entertainer also participated in Wigstock, the annual drag festival in the East Village. In 1995 Cayne appeared in the related documentary film Wigstock: The Movie, the comedy-drama film Stonewall, and the Universal Studios comedy film To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar, for which she also did choreography. Cayne began transitioning in 1996. 

  That same year she had a supporting role in the comedy-drama film Always Something Better (a.k.a. Never Look Back). In 1997 Cayne co-starred in the music video for RuPaul's "A Little Bit of Love" with female impersonator Jazzmun. Cayne also starred as the title character in the 1998 independent film Mob Queen, and won the 2001 Miss Continental pageant.In 2007 Cayne was cast as Annaka Manners in the 2007 RuPaul film Starrbooty.

 From 2007 to 2008 Cayne played Carmelita Rainer, a trans woman having an affair with married New York Attorney General Patrick Darling (played by William Baldwin), on the ABC prime time drama Dirty Sexy Money. She had a recurring role as the transgender character Alexis Stone in season six of Nip/Tuck. Cayne has appeared as a judge and Dean of Dance on RuPaul's Drag U. As a dance teacher, she taught three women original choreography to "No Scrubs" by TLC in S2, Ep5 - "Naughty Nurses" and in S3, Ep3 - "Cupcake Queens" she taught a choreography to Kelis' "Milkshake (song)". In 2011, she guest-starred on the TV show Necessary Roughness as Geraldine.

  Cayne has stated, "I'm not trying to be a spokeswoman for the transgender community; I just want to be looked at as a living, breathing, happy human being." She calls the LGBT community "the last great minority" and supports the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.
As of March 2009, Cayne was engaged to a disc jockey named Marco and lives in Los Angeles.However they broke up late March 2010. As of early 2012 she is dating Alex Grimmer, from Maryland.


Movies and TV shows: Dirty Sexy Money, Mob Queen, Starz Inside: Sex and the Cinema, Meth Head, Never Look Back

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Movies with transgender/crossdresser/genderbender as main theme (Part 1)

Breakfast on Pluto

    A glamorously made-up Patrick "Kitten" Braden, pushing a baby in a pram and flirting insouciantly with construction workers, introduces her life story. Intricately plotted, the film is divided over more than 30 brief chapters. In the fictional Irish town of Tyrellin, near the border of Northern Ireland in the late 1940s, cartoon robins narrate as baby Patrick's mother abandons him on the doorstep of the local parochial house where his father, Father Liam, lives. He is then placed with an unloving foster mother. A young Patrick is later shown donning a dress and lipstick, which angers his foster family. However, Patrick is accepted by his close friends Charlie, Irwin, and Lawrence, as well as by Lawrence's father, who tells Patrick that his biological mother looked like blonde American movie star Mitzi Gaynor.

 
  The story is quickly moved ahead to Patrick's late teen years in the early '70s. Patrick gets into trouble in school by writing explicit fiction imagining how he was conceived by Father Liam and Liam's young housekeeper Eily Bergin and by inquiring about where to get a sex change. Patrick renames himself/herself as "Kitten," also using the name Patricia. She approaches her father in confession, asking about her mother, but is rebuffed. Kitten soon runs away from home, catching a ride with a glam rock band, Billy Hatchet and the Mohawks, and striking up a flirtation with leader Billy. Billy installs the lovestruck, homeless Kitten in a trailer home where she discovers he's hiding guns smuggled for the Irish Republican Army. Meanwhile, Irwin has begun to work with the IRA, much to the dismay of his now-girlfriend Charlie. Kitten dismisses Irwin's politics as "serious, serious, serious," but after Lawrence is killed by police detonating a suspected IRA car bomb, she tosses the IRA gun cache into a lake. Billy abandons Kitten to flee the IRA, while Kitten plays crazy, so that she won't be shot.

   Kitten next journeys to London to search for her mother, but initial inquiries prove fruitless. Penniless, she finds shelter in a tiny cottage in a park, only to find that it's a children's entertainment park for The Wombles. She gets a job as a singing, dancing Womble, but immediately loses it when her sponsor and co-worker punches their boss. Forced into prostitution, she is violently attacked by her first client, saving herself from strangulation by spraying him in the eyes with Chanel No. 5 perfume. At a diner, magician Bertie Vaughan asks her what she is writing in her notebook. She explains that it's the story of "The Phantom Lady" who was "swallowed up" by the big city, then reveals that it's about the mother she is seeking. Bertie hires her to be his magician's assistant, exploiting her life story in a hypnosis act. The two take a romantic day trip, but Kitten explains that she's not really a girl when Bertie tries to kiss her. Bertie says that he already knew this. Soon, Charlie finds Bertie's show and takes Kitten away.

Next, Kitten goes to a club frequented by British soldiers and dances with a soldier, only to be injured when the club is bombed by the IRA. When police discover that Kitten is biologically male and Irish, she is arrested as a suspected terrorist. Beaten and prevented from sleeping, she writes a hyperbolic statement, shown in a fantasy spy film spoof sequence. The cops soften, realising that she is innocent, and release her. With no place to go, Kitten begs to stay in the police station, but is tossed to the street. Kitten is again forced to turn tricks, but is saved by one of the cops who interrogated her. He brings her to a peep show where she transforms herself into a high femme blonde. Her repentant father finds her and in a scene that mirrors their confessional scene, professes his love and tells Kitten where to find her mother. She goes to her mother's house posing as a telephone company market researcher and discovers a younger half-brother whose name is also Patrick. She faints upon meeting her mother, but after reviving does not reveal her true self.
 
  When Irwin is killed by the IRA, Kitten goes home to tend to a pregnant Charlie. However, the town reacts against the unwed mother and her transgender friend by firebombing the parish house. Kitten and Charlie flee to London. In the final scene, they run into Kitten's pregnant mother Eily and little Patrick at the doctor's office, where Charlie is getting post-partum care. Kitten is friendly, but still doesn't reveal her true identity.

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Transgender and transsexual actors (Part 1)

Kelly van der Veer

Kelly van der Veer (born May 6, 1980) is a Dutch television personality, singer and actress. She is regarded the most prominent transsexual person in the Netherlands and rose to fame after competing in Big Brother - The Battle, a Dutch version of the Big Brother-format.

During her childhood, Van der Veer sang on several Kinderen voor Kinderen (a children's choir) albums. Van der Veer stated her teenage years were "the most difficult phase of her life". She was often mistaken for a girl and frequently had to face ridicule because of this. She saw an escape from her plight in gaining prominence as a media personality and therefore participated in "De Travestiet Show" (English: The Transvestite Show) in 1997, entering as the youngest contestant at time. She underwent sex reassignment surgery at age 19.

 

After finishing her run as a Big Brother participant, Van der Veer released a single, "I Am What I Am". Simultaneously, she released the same-titled album I Am What I Am; the album performed poorly both critically and commercially. As of 2010, she has released three singles, "I Am What I Am" followed by "Proud Mary" (2006) and "Ik Doe Wat Ik Doe" (2010).

 Kelly telling about herself on Dr.Conway website

Hello, Dr. Conway,

  I can't tell you how it made me feel to be on your site, as a TS success. I can't tell you, because you know better than me, what it's like to be a success.

 

I just wanted to take this time to tell you a little about me.

 

The basics? My name is Kelly Van De Veer. I live in Hilversum, in the Netherlands...

                            And, Lynn, I'm happy.

 

I've seen so many site, on transsexuals, and my story is their story. A young boy, with friends who thought it weird, that I brought "Barbies" into class.

 

I liked to dance---to move; ballet to jazz. I was appreciated by my teachers....I mean, a boy who liked to dance! Lynn, it was great for me.

 

At 12, I was on TV, here in Holland. I learned so much. I loved it. But then came Highschool. I identified so much with what was me, with myself,

 

but the outside world (not, the "real world") of Highschool had such a hard time being where I was. I received so much, changing in the girls room,

 

dancing, being who I am.. I was born a way, and I was expected to live that way. Be that way. But what we see, is not always what is.

 

 Lynn, it hurt.

 

 I left Highschool, and became a hairdresser. I  modeled, as a boy. But, I used "him". I used "him", to become her. So much time went by,

 

I was trying to decide, for myself, to let others know who I was. To say, hello, my name is Kelly. I became a show girl, a drag queen. I entered travestite shows.

 

I got famous as Kelly, the Drag Queen. I just wanted to be Kelly....period.

 

I had been taking hormones since seventeen. I had my surgery at nineteen. I was luckier than most. My parents, my sister, my boyfriend...they were there for me.

 

They were in the hospital, crying, supportive of me. God, I realize that i was luckier than so many.

 

After the surgery, I felt so free. When people tried to bring me down, I remembered the happiness. The feeling, of finally being who I am.

 

My boyfriend? He was (is) so important to me. But after the surgery, I felt the need to be like the girls in high school. I felt that need to be seen, to be desired.

 

I miss him. I have my family, but with him it did not work.

        Official Website of Kelly van der Veer                                         

                   http://www.bigkelly.com