Candis Cayne

Candis Cayne strikes me as genuinely courageous, not just talented. A Maui native who performed in New York drag clubs through the 1990s and came out as transgender in 1996, she broke real ground when she played Carmelita on prime-time ABC's Dirty Sexy Money in 2007. That kind of visibility on network television mattered enormously. Beyond acting she is a choreographer, model and performance artist, which speaks to a restless creative drive I admire. What moves me most is that her career was never only about beauty; it was about stepping forward and holding the door open for others to follow.

Name (English)

Candis Cayne

Name (Japanese)

キャンディス・ケイン

Reading

きゃんでぃす・けいん

Born

August 29, 1971 (age 54)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Boar

Origin

Maui, Hawaii, United States

Occupation

choreographer / television actor / film actor / performance artist / model

High school

Henry Perrine Baldwin High School

• Official sitehttps://www.candiscayne.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/candiscayne/
• Xhttps://x.com/candiscayne
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candis%20Cayne
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AD%E3%83%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B1%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2639039

Tags

• Hawaii
• choreographer
• television actor
• film actor

Last updated

2026-06-21

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.