Candis Cayne
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
- Grey's Anatomy (2005)
- RuPaul's Drag Race (2009)
- RuPaul's Drag Race (2009)
- Elementary (2012)
- Nip/Tuck (2003)
- CSI: NY (2004)
- 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)
- Visible: Out on Television (2020)
- I Am Cait (2015)
- To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995)
- The House of Venus Show (2005)
- She's Living for This (2012)
- Disclosure (2020)
- Witchy Ways (2025)
- The Advocate Celebrates 50 Years: A Long Road to Freedom (2018)