Candy Darling

Candy Darling moves me more than almost any Warhol-era figure. What strikes me is how completely she authored herself, willing a presence into being on screen long before the culture had language for it. Her turns in Flesh and Women in Revolt feel less like performances than like sheer existence captured on film. That she did this after a Queens birth and a Long Island youth, against every odd, and died at just 29, gives her story an unbearable poignancy. I see her not as a footnote to Warhol but as a genuine pioneer of transgender visibility whose courage and beauty still feel startlingly modern.

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Name (English)

Candy Darling

Name (Japanese)

キャンディ・ダーリング

Reading

きゃんでぃ・だーりんぐ

Born

November 24, 1944 – March 21, 1974

Origin

Forest Hills, New York, United States

Occupation

actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Monkey

High school

Massapequa High School

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candy%20Darling
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q550202

Tags

• New York
• actor

Last updated

September 28, 2026

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