Candis Cayne
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Candis Cayne at the sixth annual Style Awards in Beverly Hills, California (October 10, 2009)
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August 29, 1971 Maui, Hawaii, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress, performance artist |
| Years active | 1995–present |
| Partner(s) | Marco McDermott (2002–2010) |
| Website | www |
Candis Cayne (born Brendan McDaniel on August 29, 1971) is an American actress and performance artist.
Cayne was known to perform in New York City nightclubs in drag since the 1990s, and started her transition as a trans woman 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.
Cayne was born in Maui, Hawaii. She has a fraternal twin brother named Dylan. Their parents taught at a Waldorf School, and the family lived on campus. She graduated from Maui's Baldwin High School in 1989 and then spent a year in Los Angeles, where she trained as a dancer.
Cayne then 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 Cayne 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 , the annual drag festival in Manhattan's East Village. In 1995 Cayne appeared in the related documentary film , the comedy-drama film Stonewall, and the Universal Studios comedy feature film To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar, for which she also did choreography.
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