Acting · Maui, Hawaii, USA · Born August 29, 1971
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.
MovieWitchy Ways
2025
as Penny
MovieHer Curve
2023
MovieHow Not to Be a Junkie
2022
MovieI Hate New Year's
2020
as Zelena / Marley
MovieDisclosure
2020
as Self - Actress
TVVisible: Out on Television
2020
as Self
MovieCandis for President
2018
MovieThe Advocate Celebrates 50 Years: A Long Road to Freedom
2018
as Self
TVHollywood Medium with Tyler Henry
2016
as Self - Guest
TVThe Magicians
2015
as Fairy Queen
TVI Am Cait
2015
as Self
TVTransparent
2014
as Jolene
MovieCrazy Bitches
2014
as Vivianna
MovieThe Little House That Could
2013
as Self
MovieMeth Head
2013
as Pinkie
TVElementary
2012
as Ms. Hudson
MovieGroom's Cake
2012
as Candis
TVShe's Living for This
2012
as Candis Cayne / Various Characters
MovieMaking the Boys
2011
as Self
MovieStarz Inside: Sex and the Cinema
2009
as Self
TVDrop Dead Diva
2009
as Allison Webb
TVRuPaul's Drag Race
2009
as Self - Choreographer
MovieLibanesa Loira
2008
as Libanesa
TVKeeping Up with the Kardashians
2007
as Self
TVDirty Sexy Money
2007
as Carmelita
MovieStarrbooty
2007
as Annaka Manners
TVThe House of Venus Show
2005
as Self
TVGrey's Anatomy
2005
as Michelle Velez
TVCSI: NY
2004
as Quentin Conrad
TVNip/Tuck
2003
as Alexis Stone
MovieMob Queen
1998
as Glorice Kalsheim
MovieAlways Something Better
1997
as Billee
MovieDragtime
1997
as Self
MovieStonewall
1995
as Diva 1
MovieTo Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
1995
as Candis Cayne
MovieWigstock: The Movie
1995
as Self
