Candis Cayne
Also Known As: Brendan McDanniel , Brendan McDaniel
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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Maui, Hawaii, USA
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Birthday: August 29, 1971
Age: 53 years old
Gender: Female
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Her Curve
Overview: An artist finds more than just skills and technique in her figure drawing class.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-07-21
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Meth Head
Overview: Kyle Peoples never wanted to be the man he has become in his 30s, an accountant stuck in a dead end job, with a lover who is more successful than he and a family that doesn't get him at all. So when a night of partying leads to a new family of friends and fun, Kyle sees an opportunity for escape from reality. But Kyle's new friendship with Maia and Dusty and the trio's love of crystal meth eventually cost Kyle his job, his companion, his home and his family. Kyle's escape becomes his trap, the party is an illusion and the crystal is slowly killing him, physically and psychologically. When he finally bottoms out and is no longer the young man his father once boasted about with pride, Kyle must choose: life or meth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-07
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Stonewall
Overview: A group of gay friends try to live with dignity and self-respect while events build to the opening battle in the major gay rights movement.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-26
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How Not to Be a Junkie
Overview: 22-year-old Lex thinks she has mastered the art of shooting up and getting just high enough not to wake up dead. But today — things didn’t go as planned.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-07-16
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Libanesa Loira
Overview: Elisa imitates her friend's feelings and moods. She is not aware of her behaviour but her aunt that knows Elisa too well, offers her a trip to Brazil to spend some time alone and work on her project about Brazilian popular myths. In Brazil and all alone, she experiences her first true feelings only to find out that everything she does, a mysterious Lebanese woman has done before.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-10-03
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Witchy Ways
Overview: Eve quits the rat race and heads to a cabin to rediscover herself. She promptly falls for her dynamic new next-door neighbor, Danni. As they grow close, Danni confesses she is a witch but reveals another ghostly secret threatening to destroy their chance at love.
Genres: Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
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Crazy Bitches
Overview: 7 girls and 1 fab gay guy plan a getaway to a remote ranch for a week of gossip and grub. They start off where they always do, old rivalries in place, extreme vanity covering great insecurities, but with a true love for each other underneath the bickering, sniping and sassing. A number of drinks into night one and a dark secret is revealed. The house they rented is the site of a mass murder of teenage girls 15 years earlier. Blood still stains the floors under replacement carpets. The killer still runs free. The girls take it for what it seems - a fun story for a rainy night by a roaring fire. But after one of them disappears and is discovered dead, the story doesn't seem so fun anymore. 1 by 1, they die, killed by their own vanity. The fun-filled week turns into a race against death. Who will make it out alive?
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-06-26
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Groom's Cake
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-05
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Dragtime
Overview: A film that revels in the sheer delightful fabulousness of drag! A joyful look into the lives of some of the most famous drag queens of today: Varla Jean Merman, Candis Cayne, Lady Bunny and Lypsinka. These frocked out femmes of fashion light up the screen!
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-11
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Wigstock: The Movie
Overview: The three-decade-old annual Manhattan gathering of drag queens and their fans is portrayed in this colorful documentary. The film concentrates on the spectacle of the event, providing abundant examples of the elaborate costumes, flamboyant wigs, and campy musical performances that characterize the event.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-06-09
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Making the Boys
Overview: Before Prop 8, Milk or Will & Grace, before the AIDS epidemic, gay pride parades or the Stonewall uprising, "The Boys in the Band" changed everything. "Making the Boys" explores the drama, struggle and enduring legacy of the first-ever gay play and subsequent Hollywood movie to successfully reach a mainstream audience. Featuring anecdotes from the surviving cast and filmmakers, as well as perspectives by legendary figures from stage and screen, it traces the behind-the-scenes drama and lasting legacy of this cultural milestone.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-03-11
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Mob Queen
Overview: In Brooklyn of the '50s, small-time mobster George and his sidekick Dip realize they've forgotten the birthday of mob boss Joey, so they engage the services of prostitute Glorice. Joey's reaction to Glorice gives George a promotion, and he's installed as Joey's assistant. George makes the discovery that gender-bent Glorice is not exactly a woman after all. The problem gets worse: Joey intends to marry Glorice, who plans to blackmail Joey after the wedding.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-27
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The Advocate Celebrates 50 Years: A Long Road to Freedom
Overview: Documentary exploring The Advocate's role at the forefront of the LGBT movement in the U.S.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-01
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Starrbooty
Overview: When Agent Starrbooty's adopted niece is kidnapped, she and Agent Page Turner go undercover as prostitutes to rescue her from Starrbooty's old nemesis.
Genres: Comedy Action Crime Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-02
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The Little House That Could
Overview: A group of young lost rebellious outsiders are given a home in New York City by Emmy Award-winning fashion stylist, Patricia Field, and together take on the world, changing it forever. Field, has done a lot more than Sex and the City. She has spent several decades saving lives and giving hope to lost outsiders who society frowned upon--transsexuals, club kids, drag queens, gay teenagers, butch-dykes, people who needed to escape from their hometowns because they were never understood. This is the story of a close-knit unconventional family in New York that has single-handedly changed music and fashion for the world several times over. Toronto filmmaker, Mars Roberge, has spent a decade becoming one with them so that their story could be told. In doing so, he becomes part of their family.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-06-28
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To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
Overview: Manhattan drag queens Vida Boheme and Noxeema Jackson impress regional judges in competition, securing berths in the Nationals in Los Angeles. When the two meet pathetic drag novice Chi-Chi Rodriguez — one of the losers that evening — the charmed Vida and Noxeema agree to take the hopeless youngster under their joined wing. Soon the three set off on a madcap road trip across America and struggle to make it to Los Angeles in time.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-07
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I Hate New Year's
Overview: Rising music star Layne heads home to Nashville for New Year's Eve to break her writer's block, but sometimes you find inspiration - and love - where you least expect it.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-12-04
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Disclosure
Overview: An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have been taught to feel about themselves.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-06-19
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Candis for President
Overview: In a world where anything is possible, as evidenced by our current (Reality TV) president, Transgender actress, Candis (Candis Cayne), sets out to become the President of the United States with the help and sometimes detriment, of her sarcastic television producer sidekick, Andrea (Andrea Metz).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-05
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Always Something Better
Overview: Jill flees New Smyrna, Florida, and boyfriend Keith, in hopes of a new life as a Miami fashion model in South Beach. With advice and support from drag queens Billee and Mona, she makes it to the top as an international supermodel in only seven weeks. Then, of course, Keith turns up to make trouble.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-23
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