Candis Cayne

Candis Cayne is an actress and performance artist who has been performing in New York City’s nightclubs and drags since the ’90s. She came out in 1996 as a transgender and rose to fame in 2007 for portraying the transgender mistress on ABC’s primetime drama Dirty Sexy Money. She received credit for being the first transgender actress to play a recurring transgender role on primetime TV. She revealed that she never meant to become a model in the transgender community. Her only goal was to be treated as a living, breathing, and happy human being. She is a great supporter of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.

She teamed up with the global LGBT social network MOOVZ to become its new global creative director in 2015. She had a relationship with DJ Marco McDermott for over eight years, helping him raise her daughter Satori at that time.