Candis Cayne born August 29th 1971, is an American actress and performance artist. She was known to perform in New York city nightclubs in drag since the 1990s, and came out as a
trans woman in 1996. Cayne came to national attention in 2007 for portraying
transgender misstress Carmelita on ABC's prime time drama Dirty Sexy Money, the role makes came the first transgender actress to play a recurring transgender character in primetime. Cayne then moved to New York in the early 1990s, making a name for herself as a choreographer and drag performer in 1997. She was in a documentary called ragtime on HBO along with many other famous New York nightlife performers. As a dance teacher she taught contestants original choreography to no scrubs by TLC and calluses song milkshake In 2011. She guest-starred on the TV show Necessary roughness, she calls the LGBT the the last community great minority and supports the gay and lesbian alliance against defamation in 2016.
