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| Switch || [[Belinda McClory]] || ''[[The Matrix]]'' || 1999 || In the original script, the character was a man in the real world and a woman in the Matrix. This idea was ultimately dropped, but the film was still intended as a transgender metaphor.<ref>{{Cite news |date=7 August 2020 |title=The Matrix is a 'trans metaphor', Lilly Wachowski says |language=en-GB |work=[[BBC News]] |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-53692435 |access-date=16 January 2021}}</ref> |
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This is a list of films and television shows with transgender people and transgender fictional characters. This does not include documentaries, which are listed on the lists of LGBT-related films by decade or animated characters, which are noted on the List of fictional trans characters page.
Film and video
Various films feature either transgender issues as a plot element or have trans men, trans women or non-binary trans characters.
Trans men
Characters | Actor | Show | Year | Notes |
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Aggie | Lauren Mollica | Itty Bitty Titty Committee | 2007 | A comedy about young feminists who spread their message through public art and vandalism. Aggie is a trans man[1][2] and he bonds with the main character, Anna, who recently broke up with her girlfriend and falls in love with Sadie,[3] later developing an apparent crush on her. |
Lukas | Rick Okon | Romeos | 2011 | A drama and tragicomedy which revolves around the romantic relationship between Lukas, a 20-year-old gay trans man who is transitioning from female to male, and a cisgender gay man named Fabio. |
Mole McHenry | Susan Lowe | Desperate Living | 1977 | A John Waters comedy featuring a trans man character who gets phalloplasty. |
Mikäel | Zoé Héran | Tomboy | 2011 | A French drama about a 10-year-old transgender child who, after moving with his family to a new neighborhood, introduces himself to his new friends as Mikäel. The film has been described as being about a girl who pretends to be a boy[4][5] or, alternatively, about a transgender boy.[6][7] |
Albert Nobbs | Glenn Close | Albert Nobbs | 2011 | A drama about a trans man living in 19th century Dublin and working as a butler. He bonds with another trans man, who is a painter, in the same city. Film is criticized for its portrayal of trans men as "women in disguise". |
Caitlyn Poythress | Jordan Kristine Seamón | We Are Who We Are | 2020 | A drama set on an Italian army base exploring the lives of the characters there particularly Caitlin and Fraser played by Jack Dylan Grazer. It’s a coming of age story of the teenagers who live there and the trans storyline is not the main storyline, lots intertwine. |
Shy | Silas Howard | By Hook or by Crook | 2001 | A queer buddy film written, directed by, and starring trans men.[8] |
Brandon Teena | Hilary Swank | Boys Don't Cry | 1999 | A drama film based on the real-life story of Brandon Teena, a transgender man who was raped and murdered by male friends. The movie received much media attention when its star Hilary Swank, who played Brandon, won the Academy Award for Best Actress. |
Pierrot | Susanne Sachsse | Pierrot Lunaire | 2014 | An adaptation of Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire that features a trans man in the title role.[9] |
Ray | Elle Fanning | 3 Generations | 2015 | A drama about a teenage trans boy who struggles with his mother and grandmother to get approved for hormone replacement therapy.[10][11][12] |
Yuji | Issei Ishida | Strange Circus | 2005 | Yuji, the novelist's assistant,[13] is a transgender man. |
Trans women
Characters | Actor | Work | Year | Notes |
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Alex | Marie Fischer | Der Spalt (The Gap) | 2014 | German film about the core misunderstanding of transgender women. It is about a girl named "Alex", who is born with body-parts that do not fit to her gender. The people around her do not believe that she exists. |
Angela Baker | Felissa Rose Pamela Springsteen |
Sleepaway Camp | 1983, 1988, 1989, 2008 | Angela Baker (portrayed by Felissa Rose in the first and fourth installments and Pamela Springsteen in the second and third), the killer and main character of the series, is a trans woman. |
Ruth Applewood | Tom Wilkinson | Normal | 2003 | A drama film about a midwestern factory worker and closeted trans woman, who stuns her wife of 25 years, revealing that she wishes to have sex reassignment surgery, and changing her name to Ruth. It starred Jessica Lange and Oscar-nominated actor Tom Wilkinson. |
Barton | Brian Deacon | The Triple Echo | 1972 | A British soldier deserts his unit during WWII. At the suggestion of a woman named Alice, he meets while exploring the countryside nearby, he disguises himself as her sister to escape detection. Enjoying the experience a little too much, he agrees to accept the invitation of a soldier (Oliver Reed) to attend a dance at the base, risking exposure. Based on a novella by H.E. Bates. |
Charles Beaumont | Micheline Carvel | Adam est... Ève | 1954 | Likely the first French trans film, by director René Gaveau. A boxer is "knocked out" and wakes up decided she is a woman.[14] |
Bernadette Bassenger | Terence Stamp | The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert | 1994 | Cult Australian film starring Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce as drag queens and Terence Stamp as a trans woman. |
Bex | Hari Nef | Assassination Nation | 2018 | The character Bex is a transgender woman. |
Rachel Bighead | Carlos Alazraqui | Rocko's Modern Life: Static Cling | 2019 | In the original Rocko's Modern Life, Ralph Bighead was the son of Rocko's neighbors. Static Cling, taking place 20 years after the original series, shows that Ralph transitioned to Rachel at some point. The series' creator, Joe Murray, felt that as the new work was about accepting change, including a trans female character would fit naturally into the episode.[15] |
Bobbi | Michael Caine | Dressed to Kill | 1980 | A film about a transgender murderer. During the film's initial release, the activist group Women Against Violence in Pornography and Media distributed a leaflet denouncing the film's misogynistic and transphobic attitudes, arguing that "The distorted image of a psychotic male transvestite [sic] makes all sexual minorities appear sick and dangerous.”[16] |
Patricia Braden | Cillian Murphy | Breakfast on Pluto | 2005 | This film stars Cillian Murphy as a young preoperative trans woman during the Irish Times of Trouble. An orphan, she searches for her mother. |
Bree | Felicity Huffman | Transamerica | 2005 | A comedy-drama starring Felicity Huffman, who plays Bree, a transgender woman. It was nominated for two Academy Awards in 2006: Felicity Huffman for Best Actress, and Dolly Parton for Best Original Song. |
Myra Breckinridge | Raquel Welch | Myra Breckinridge | 1970 | Starring Raquel Welch in an off-beat role. |
Calpernia | Lee Pace | Soldier's Girl | 2003 | A drama film based on the real-life story of the relationship between Private Barry Winchell and singer Calpernia Addams, starring Lee Pace as Calpernia. |
The Lady Chablis | As herself | Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil | 1997 | American crime drama film featuring The Lady Chablis who became a transgender icon and one of the first transgender performers to be received by a wider audience.[17][18] |
Charlie | Harry Gilby | Just Charlie | 2017 | A film about a young trans girl who loves to play football. |
Parinya Charoenphol | Asanee Suwan | Beautiful Boxer | 2003 | A Thai film based on the real-life story of Parinya Charoenphol, a Muaythai boxer who is a trans woman who underwent transitional surgery.[19] |
Chris | Maya Henry | For Nonna Anna | 2017 | This film stars Maya Henry as Chris, a young trans woman taking care of her ailing grandmother.[20] |
Bubbles Cliquot | Krystal Summers | Ticked-Off Trannies With Knives | 2010 | A rape/revenge "transploitation" film about a trio of trans women who avenge themselves on three men who brutally attack them and kill two of their friends. GLAAD stated that the film "misrepresent[s] the lives of transgender women and use[s] grotesque, exploitative depictions of violence against transgender women in ways that make light of the horrific brutality they all too often face", adding that the film conflated transgenderism with drag, which would create the impression in viewers unfamiliar with trans issues that "transgender women are ridiculous caricatures of 'real women'".[21] while lead actress Krystal Summers said that the film "does not promote hate or violence against transgender women...[and is] a work of fiction and a revenge fantasy."[22] |
Dil | Jaye Davidson | The Crying Game | 1992 | In this drama film, the plot revolves around a trans woman named Dil. |
Eddie | Peter | Funeral Parade of Roses | 1969 | Follows a group of transgender drag queens,[23] Eddie and a few others, in the Japanese underground.[24] The film has been described as "a documentary being made about Tokyo's gay culture"[25] despite the fact it is a black-and-white drama film[26][27] which is said to have influenced the 1971 film A Clockwork Orange.[28] |
Lt. Lois Einhorn | Sean Young | Ace Ventura: Pet Detective | 1994 | One of the main characters is revealed to be a trans woman. |
Lili Elbe | Eddie Redmayne | The Danish Girl | 2015 | A drama film about Lili Elbe, based on the book of the same name, starring Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander. |
Esteban Agrado |
Eloy Azorín Antonia San Juan |
All About My Mother | 1999 | A film by Pedro Almodóvar that tells the story of Manuela, a nurse whose son is hit by a car and killed. The son's father is transgender. Agrado, a friend of Manuela, is also transgender, and a sex worker. |
Fifi | Seyhan Arman | I Saw the Sun | 2009 | In this Turkish film following a Kurdish family fleeing from war, one character faces heavy backlash from their family when they begin to present as a woman after befriending several other trans women. She is also a drag queen. |
Kim Foyle | Steven Mackintosh | Different for Girls | 1996 | A British comedy film about two childhood friends who are reunited, after one of them has undergone sex reassignment surgery. |
Frylock | Carey Means | Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters | 2007 | At the end of this Adult Swim film, the character Frylock reveals that he is "a woman trapped in a man's body." In the after-credits scene, Frylock is shown as a completely transitioned female. |
Glen/Glenda | Ed Wood | Glen or Glenda | 1953 | A loose, unauthorized retelling of Christine Jorgenson's story by director Ed Wood. |
Albert Goldman | Nathan Lane | The Birdcage | 1996 | This movie features a cis Robin Williams with a gay male identity, who is in a committed long-term partnership with Nathan Lane's character, who at various points in the movie claims their womanhood and longs to "be" a woman. Williams' character, although devoted to Lane's, suppresses Lane's desire to be perceived as a woman, and uses he/him pronouns when referring to Lane's character, as do others. |
J | Harisu | Yellow Hair 2 | 2001 | A South Korean film starring actress Harisu, who is a transgender biker who works as a nightclub singer. |
Yoon Ji-Wook | Cha Seung-won | Man on High Heels | 2014 | A Korean film about Yoon Ji-Wook, a transgender woman. |
Joanne | Karen Black | Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean | 1982 | Karen Black portrays a woman named Joanne who is revealed to be transgender and a former friend of the already existing cast members in this Robert Altman film. Joanne's former self was portrayed by Mark Patton. |
Christine Jorgensen | John Hansen | The Christine Jorgensen Story | 1970 | Former Army private from the Bronx undergoes surgery and hormone treatments in Denmark in 1952 to transition from male to female, based on Jorgenson's autobiography.[29] Reviews were mixed[30][31][32] and Jorgensen later unsuccessfully tried to get a restraining order to stop Small's estate from exploiting the film, claiming Small diverted $100,000 owed to her for his own use.[33] |
Juan / Ángel Andrade / Zahara | Gael García Bernal | Bad Education[34] | 2004 | Features Gael García Bernal as an actress who is transgender. |
Judy | Peter Outerbridge | Better Than Chocolate | 1999 | Features a sub-plot involving the transgender character named Judy (Peter Outerbridge), who struggles with family rejection throughout the film and who has a crush on, and ultimately begins a romantic relationship with, lesbian separatist Frances (Ann-Marie MacDonald), who owns the gay & lesbian bookstore in which the film's central character Maggie (Karyn Dwyer) works. Judy also becomes friends with Maggie's somewhat sexually repressed mother, Lila (Wendy Crewson). |
Joan Lambert | Veronica Cartwright | Alien | 1979 | Veronica Cartwright portrays a woman named Joan Lambert. In the sequel Aliens (1986) a biography very briefly flashes up on a computer screen in the background. The biography establishes Lambert as having had her gender altered from male to female. On the extras of a DVD presentation, one could see Lambert's full bio, which reads: "Despin Convert at birth (male to female). So far no indication of suppressed traumas related to gender alteration". |
Kaoru | Maki Carousel | Dotonbori River | 1982 | Also known as Lovers Lost, in this film, Maki Carousel plays a sixty-year-old openly transgender woman character named Kaoru. |
Kimmy | Yasmin Lee | The Hangover Part II | 2011 | Features a ladyboy. |
Lola | Mya Bollaers | Lola | 2019 | A film about a 18-year-old transgender girl grieving the death of her mother. |
Loretta | Eric Idle | Monty Python's Life of Brian | 1979 | Among Eric Idle's multiple roles is Stan/Loretta. Set in the year AD 33, Stan is strongly mocked at first, but at the end is called Loretta, with no trace of disapproval. |
Loridonna | Sofía Vergara | Grilled | 2006 | A comedy film in which Sofía Vergara plays character of Loridonna, a sultry trans woman who seduces unsuspecting Maurice (Ray Romano) when he and Dave (Kevin James), two desperate meat salesmen, knock on her door. A call from a suicidal friend interrupts signing the contract, so Maurice and Dave offer to drive her to her friend's house, hoping to close the deal. There, troubles multiply as they meet an arms dealer (Kim Coates) who outs Lori to Maurice just before they got intimate, then hit-men working for a gregarious mob boss (Burt Reynolds). |
Marguerite | Sondra Locke | A Reflection of Fear | 1972 | One of the main characters is transgender.[35] |
Marieta | Mónica Cervera | 20 centímetros | 2005 | A Spanish musical comedy about a narcoleptic trans woman during her transition from male to female. |
Ludovic | Georges Du Fresne | Ma vie en rose | 1997 | A Belgian film about a young child, Ludovic, who believes that she was born in the wrong body and should have been a girl.[36] |
Luis Molina | William Hurt | Kiss of the Spider Woman | 1985 | Luis Molina and Valentin Arregui are cell mates in a South American prison. Luis is found guilty of "immoral behaviour" and Valentin is a political prisoner. To escape reality Luis invents romantic movies, while Valentin tries to keep his mind on the situation he is in. During the time they spend together, the two come to understand respect and care for one another. Molina is more accurately transgender, if not transsexual. William Hurt's portrayal of Molina won him the Academy Award for Best Actor. |
Monica Morehead | Cathy Moriarty | Soapdish | 1991 | In this soap opera parody, Montana Morehead, the show's star and scheming antagonist, is revealed, on live television, as a transgender woman. |
Roberta Muldoon | John Lithgow | The World According to Garp | 1982 | In this film, the character Roberta Muldoon (played by John Lithgow in an Oscar-nominated role) is a transgender former football player. |
Orlando | Tilda Swinton | Orlando | 1992 | Tilda Swinton portrays Orlando, a character whose sex changes after 2/3 of the film. |
Tanya Peters | Anna Nicole Smith | Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult | 1994 | Anna Nicole Smith's character, Tanya Peters, is revealed to be a transgender woman at the end of the film. |
Rayon | Jared Leto | Dallas Buyers Club | 2013 | Jared Leto plays Rayon, a transgender woman dying from AIDS. |
Ricky | Michelle Hendley | Boy Meets Girl | 2014 | Ricky, a transgender woman from rural Kentucky, awaiting acceptance into a New York fashion design school, learns about acceptance, friendship, sexuality and love. |
Hedwig Robinson | John Cameron Mitchell | Hedwig and the Angry Inch | 2001 | An off-Broadway cult musical adapted for cinema about a transgender German glam rocker recounting the story of her betrayal by her former boyfriend. |
Rosa Lavender Lima |
Daisuke Gōri Kaneto Shiozawa Shinya Ōtaki |
Crayon Shin-chan: Pursuit of the Balls of Darkness | 1997 | Japanese comic anime with three possibly transgender women heroes, part of the Tamayura Clan, who help Shin Chan protect his sister and fight to stop a demon's birth. The Evil is also, reportedly, a trans character who wears a sticker on the back which says it is Diablo product expired on 12/31/1996 and call Mali. |
Madame Rose | Jin Xing | Tom-Yum-Goong | 2005 | Known as The Protector in the US release, this is a foreign action film starring Tony Jaa. The main villain, Madame Rose, is a transgender woman in the international versions. The actress who plays Rose, Jin Xing, is transgender herself. |
Henrietta Rossi | Clark Gregg | The Adventures of Sebastian Cole | 1998 | In June 1983 in Dutchess County, New York, Sebastian Cole's stepfather, Hank, drops a bomb: he announces that he is having a sex change operation.[37] Later, Hank (now Henrietta) takes Sebastian in and supports him over the next few months of high school. Sebastian's "adventures" are mostly self-destructive. |
Leon Shermer | Chris Sarandon | Dog Day Afternoon | 1975 | Al Pacino's lover, played by Chris Sarandon, was a transgender woman (based on Elizabeth Eden). Pacino's character was robbing a bank to pay for her gender reassignment surgery. |
Sin-Dee Alexandra |
Kitana Kiki Rodriguez Mya Taylor |
Tangerine | 2015 | An independent film directed by Sean S. Baker where Kitana Kiki Rodriguez and Mya Taylor play the main protagonists, two transgender women, Sin-Dee and Alexandra respectively. |
Strella | Mina Orfanou | Strella | 2009 | A young transgender prostitute, named Strella, meets Yorgos, when he is released from prison after 14 years of incarceration for a murder he committed in his small Greek village. |
Switch | Belinda McClory | The Matrix | 1999 | In the original script, the character was a man in the real world and a woman in the Matrix. This idea was ultimately dropped, but the film was still intended as a transgender metaphor.[38] |
Tobio | Kwancharu Shitichai | Wild Zero | 1999 | Protagonist, Ace, falls in love with a transgender woman named Tobio he meets at a gas station on his way to a concert. He returns to her in time to rescue her from a horde of zombies and when the main character is conflicted about falling in love with a "woman who is also a man", Guitar Wolf tells him "Love knows no race, nationality or gender!" |
Unnamed | Unnamed | The Badge | 2002 | Billy Bob Thornton stars as a sheriff investigating the death of a local trans woman. |
Vanessa | Harmony Santana | Gun Hill Road | 2011 | A drama about a recently released ex-convict coping with her estranged wife and daughter, who is going through transition from male to female. |
Vera | Elena Anaya | The Skin I Live In | 2011 | A Pedro Almodóvar film, which translates to La piel que habito in Spanish, in which a young man named Vicente, portrayed by Jan Cornet, is kidnapped by Antonio Banderas' character, undergoes forced sex reassignment surgery and becomes a woman named Vera, portrayed by Elena Anaya. |
Lara Verhaegen | Victor Polster | Girl | 2018 | Lara Verhaegen, the main character, is a trans girl in training to become a ballerina. Over the course of the story she seeks hormone replacement therapy and sex reassignment surgery. |
Veronica | David Dencik | En Soap | 2006 | A Danish film, which translates to "A Soap" in English, about the love between a (pre-operative) trans woman and a lesbian. |
Natalie | Josie Totah | Big Mouth | 2020 | Natalie has a three episode arch which opens season 4 (2020) where she meets the main characters at summer camp. She struggled with being deadnamed, and showed how much dysphoria can affect transgender individuals, especially teenagers. |
Marina Vidal | Daniela Vega | A Fantastic Woman | 2017 | A film by Chilean director Sebastián Lelio about a trans woman grieving the sudden death of her boyfriend. |
Violet Paige |
Jen Richards Angelica Ross |
Her Story | 2016 | A web series featuring two trans woman: Violet and Paige. Violet works as a bartender in Los Angeles and has a love interest in the city named Allie, who is queer and a reporter. Paige, on the other hand, is an attorney for Lambda Legal, working to represent trans woman who have experienced discrimination and is Violet's Narcotics Anonymous sponsor. |
Tiny Washington | Chris Williams | The World's Fastest Indian | 2005 | Based on the true story of Burt Munro, who broke the motorcycle land speed record. In the film, Munro met a trans woman motel clerk, Tina Washington, who helps Burt on his way to the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah for Speed Week. |
Elvira Weishaupt | Volker Spengler | In a Year of 13 Moons | 1978 | A Rainer Werner Fassbinder film focused on the brutal cruelty faced on an everyday basis by a transgender woman played by Volker Spengler. |
Unnamed | Daniela Real | All About the Money | 2017 | Features a Colombian T-Girl. |
Wendy | Anne Heywood | I Want What I Want | 1972 | This film portrays an unhappy boy who tries to fulfill her "dreams of becoming a beautiful woman."[39] |
Wye | Leyna Bloom | Port Authority | 2019 | Wye is a black trans woman who participates in New York City's ball culture. |
Portrayals in television series
Characters | Actor | Show | Year | Notes |
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Aaron | Elliot Fletcher | The Fosters | 2013-2018 | Trans man who later dates Callie.[40][41] |
Candy Abundance | Angelica Ross | Pose | 2018–Present | Trans woman who is HIV-positive.[42][43][44] |
Elektra Abundance | Dominique Jackson | Trans woman.[43][45] | ||
Lulu Abundance | Hailie Sahar | Trans woman.[43][44] | ||
Unique Adams | Alex Newell | Glee | 2009-2015 | Trans woman.[46][47] By the 2013-2014 broadcast season, she had become a series regular.[48][49] |
Angelique | Jonny Beauchamp | Penny Dreadful | 2014-2016 | Trans woman. [Citation needed:July 2019] Angelique encounters Dorian Gray in a cafe, later going to her workplace where it is made clear that she is transgender. |
Anna | Valerie Landsburg | 1st & Ten (1984 TV series) | 1984-1991 | Anna is a trans woman who marries the team's kicker, Zagreb Shkenusky.[citation needed] |
Antoine | Brian Michael Smith | Queen Sugar | 2016-Present | It's revealed that Ralph's childhood friend, Antoinette "Toine" Wilkins, was bullied for being gender-variant growing up and Ralph came to their defense. When they reunite in Season 2, Antoinette has transitioned and is a transgender man, and goes by Antoine.[50] Toine is played by transgender actor Brian Michael Smith.[51] |
Ariel | Marina Matheus | 3% | 2016-2020 | Marina Matheus plays Gloria's friend Ariel in this Brazilian show.[citation needed] |
Miss Artiphys | Karen Dior | Xena: Warrior Princess | 1995-2001 | Trans woman in Season 2 Episode "Here She Comes... Miss Amphipolis". [Citation needed:July 2019] |
Maya Avant | Karla Mosley | The Bold and the Beautiful | 1987–Present | Maya marked the first trans female character to feature on a US daytime soap opera as a series regular and the first transgender bride to be married on a US daytime soap opera.[52][53] |
Cheryl Avery | Kate Moennig | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | 1999-Present | In the season 4 episode, "Fallacy", Cheryl appears, with Moening considering the show to be her initiation to New York City and said "You have to do Law and Order if you lived in New York!"[54] |
Ivan Aycock | Kelly Lynch | The L Word | 2004-2009 | Trans man. [Citation needed:July 2019] |
Hannah/Matty Barton | Grace Cassidy Ash Palmisciano |
Emmerdale | 1972–Present | Trans man.[55] (Matty is the first transgender character on Emmerdale. He was formerly called Hannah Barton and left the serial in 2012, transitioning off-screen before returning in 2018.[56]) |
Shannon Beiste/Sheldon | Dot-Marie Jones | Glee | 2009-2015 | Sheldon is a trans man in this series.[57] |
Benni/Bernadette | Anton Rubtsov | Dark | 2017-2020 | Bernadette is a trans woman and prostitute who is Torben's sister.[citation needed] |
Erica Bettis | Helen Shaver | The Education of Max Bickford | 2001-2002 | Trans woman. [Citation needed:July 2019] |
Bill | Chris O'Donnell | Two and a Half Men | 2003-2015 | In the episode "An Old Flame With a New Wick" O'Donnell plays a transgender man named Bill.[citation needed] |
Sasha Booker | Jamie Clayton | Designated Survivor | 2016-2019 | The third season features Sasha Booker, a trans woman and the President's sister-in-law.[citation needed] |
Hannah Bradford | Evie MacDonald | First Day | 2020 | Trans girl.[58] |
Brandi | Jenny McCarthy | Just Shoot Me | 1997-2003 | Brandi is a trans woman and an old college friend of Finch's as shown in the episode "There's Something About Allison."[citation needed] |
Helen Brears | Bethany Black | Cucumber Banana |
2015 | Trans woman. [Citation needed:July 2019] |
Charlie Briggs | Diana Weston | My Family | 2000-2011 | Diana Weston plays Charlie Briggs, an old college friend of Ben's who is transgender.[citation needed] |
Cotton Brown | Amiyah Scott | Star | 2016-2019 | Trans woman. [Citation needed:July 2019] She is the daughter of a salon owner and part of the main cast from season 1 forward. |
Denise Bryson | David Duchovny | Twin Peaks | 1990-1991 | Trans woman. [Citation needed:July 2019] Bryson is a trans FBI agent, who purportedly began presenting as a woman after working undercover. |
Sophia Burset | Laverne Cox | Orange Is the New Black | 2013-2019 | Sophia is a transgender woman played by Laverne Cox, who is trans in real life, with The Advocate suggesting that this series is the first women-in-prison series that includes a real transgender woman playing the role of a transgender person.[59] |
Pat Caddison | Robert Reed | Medical Center | 1969-1976 | In the two-part Season 7 opener, Dr. Pat Caddison, a former colleague of Dr. Gannon, reveals his intention to transition from male to female.[citation needed] |
Robert Calvert | Misha Butler | Casualty | 2015-2016 | The show featured transgender character Robert in episode 26, "Fatal Error – Part Two," of its 30th season.[citation needed] |
Carla | Eve Lindley | Mr. Robot | 2015-2019 | Trans woman. Known as 'Hot Carla', the local pyromaniac. [Citation needed:July 2019] |
Carmen | Brittany Daniel | It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia | 2005-Present | Carmen is a trans woman who has an on-again, off-again relationship with Mac until she gets married. |
Blessing Chambers | Modupe Adeyeye | Hollyoaks | 1995-Present | Trans woman. [Citation needed:July 2019] |
Charlene | Jim Bailey | Night Court | 1984-1992 | In the Season 3 episode "Best of Friends", Dan meets up with a college buddy who is no longer living as a man but is a woman, hence a trans woman.[citation needed] |
Cecilia Chung | Ivory Aquino | When We Rise | 2017 | Trans woman. [Citation needed:July 2019] |
Chris | Theo Germaine | Work in Progress | 2019-Present | Chris is a young trans man, barista, and boyfriend to the lead character.[citation needed] Germain appears in all episodes of the show but is credited as a special guest star.[60] |
Crystal Clark | Krista Allen | Married... with Children | 1987-1997 | In the episode "Calendar Girl", beautiful calendar girl Crystal Clark comes out as a trans woman on national TV, to the horror of those who loved her for her body.[citation needed] |
Cole | Tom Phelan | The Fosters | 2013-2018 | Trans man.[61] |
Maxine Conway | Socratis Otto | Wentworth | 2013-Present | In this Australian series set in a women's prison, Socratis Otto plays Maxine Conway, a transgender woman who is in prison for the murder of her ex-boyfriend.[citation needed] |
Jason Costello | Victoria Atkin | Hollyoaks | 1995–present | Jason, who appeared in the series between 2010 and 2011, experienced gender dysphoria and is a transgender man who retained an attraction to males.[62] |
Hayley Cropper | Julie Hesmondhalgh | Coronation Street | 1960–Present | Hayley appeared in the serial from 1998 to 2014, is a transgender woman, the first regular trans character to be introduced into soap opera, with the portrayal praised by British Parliament and later marries a man.[63] |
Quinn Darby | Sophie Giannamore | The Good Doctor | 2017-Present | Darby is a patient and a trans girl. |
Davina | Alexandra Billings | Transparent | 2014-2019 | Trans woman who is HIV-positive.[64] |
Dax | Various actors | Star Trek: Deep Space Nine | 1993-1999 | A symbiont, has changed genders throughout their lives.[citation needed] |
Allyson Del Lago | Jen Richards | Nashville | 2012-2018 | Trans woman. [Citation needed:July 2019] |
Charlotte DiLaurentis | Vanessa Ray | Pretty Little Liars | 2010-2017 | Alison's sister and a trans woman, who tries to kill herself and her family, which GLAAD called "regrettable".[65][66] |
Barbara Dixon | Steve Pemberton | The League of Gentlemen | 1999-2002 | Barbara Dixon is the proprietor of the local taxi firm, Bab's Cabs.[citation needed] |
Martin Dunbar | Matt Greenwood | Waterloo Road | 2006-2015 | Trans woman. [Citation needed:July 2019] In 2011, this British school-based drama introduced fictional transgender character, 'Martin Dunbar' played by Matt Greenwood in Series 7, Episode 2 of the BBC Drama Series. The episode features around the 'coming out' and coming-to-terms storyline of the pupil. Kacey Barry, played by Brogan Ellis, is forced to come to terms with her gender issues in series 8 (episode 18, "Man of the Match") when Barry outs Kacey as a girl on the football pitch after Zoe kisses her/him. |
Erica | Helen Shaver | The Education of Max Bickford | 2001-2002 | Erica is a trans woman and best friend of Max Bickford, the title character.[citation needed] |
Angel Evangelista | Indya Moore | Pose | 2018–Present | Angel is a trans woman in this series.[43][67] |
Blanca Evangelista | Mj Rodriguez | Mj is a trans woman in this series.[43][67] | ||
Morgan Finn | Joanne Boland | Strange Empire | 2014-2015 | Morgan is a trans man.[citation needed] The series is set in 1869. |
Frankie Fox | Hannah Alligood | Better Things | 2016-Present | Sam's middle child, Frankie, is a transgender boy.[68] |
Joey Funkhouser | Mayim Bialik (seasons 5-6) Chaz Bono (season 10) |
Curb Your Enthusiasm | 2005-Present | Originally played by Bialik when the character was named Jodi and identified as a lesbian.[69] Later recast to Bono, who is himself a trans man.[70] |
Wendy Garner Mimosa Dr. Mona Lavelle Raspy Transgender Woman Transgender Person |
Sara Buxton Kate Walsh Sara Buxton Lindsay Crouse Bijoux Deluxe David Michael Fordham |
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | 2000-2015 | The fifth-season episode "Ch-ch-changes" focuses on illegal sex reassignment operations in the female transgender community, and features several transgender characters llike Wendy, Mimosa, and Mona Lavelle.[citation needed] |
Georgette | Beau Bridges | The Closer | 2005-2012 | In the episode "Make Over", Bridges plays Georgette, a transgender woman and Provenza's ex-partner.[citation needed] |
Gittel | Hari Nef | Transparent | 2014-2019 | Trans woman. [Citation needed:July 2019] |
Stephanie Grant | Wilson Cruz | Ally McBeal | 1997-2002 | Cruz guest stars as Stephanie Grant, a transgender teen arrested for prostitution whom Ally must defend in court.[citation needed] |
Michael Hallowell | Ellie Desautels | Rise | 2018 | Michael is a trans man in this series.[71] |
Mackenzie Hargreaves | Georgie Stone | Neighbours | 1985–Present | Trans woman. (She is the serial's first transgender character.[72]) |
Jill Hartford | Alexandra Billings | How to Get Away with Murder | 2014–Present | Trans woman. She is a colleague of Annalise, a pansexual attorney,[73] with the latter continuing to defend her friend no matter what.[74] |
Dolly Holloway | Maren Heary | Gypsy | 2017 | Dolly is Jean's daughter and may be lesbian or transgender.[75] |
Ms. Hudson | Candis Cayne | Elementary | 2012-2019 | Trans woman. [Citation needed:July 2019] |
Ma Hyun-yi | Lee Joo-young | Itaewon Class | 2020 | Trans woman [citation needed] |
Macsen Isaacs | Mabli Jen-Eustace | Gwaith Cartref | 2011-2018 | Welsh TV show featuring series regular Macsen Issacs, who is an trans man who transitioned during season 7.[citation needed] |
Job | Hoon Lee | Banshee | 2013-2016 | Job is a computer hacker and confidant to the series' protagonist, Lucas Hood, and they have been described as transgender, a transvestite and a drag queen. The person who plays Job, Hoon Lee, believes that the character is "constantly evolving" and is not interested in "figuring out the label of who he is and every aspect of that."[76] |
Janette | Maria Clara Spinelli | Supermax | 2016 | Trans woman. [Citation needed:July 2019] |
Tara Jewkes | Ariel Ivo Reid | Casualty | 1986-Present | Trans woman. [Citation needed:July 2019] |
Job | Hoon Lee | Banshee | 2013-2016 | Job is a computer hacker and confidant of Lucas Hood. He has been described as transgender, a transvestite and a drag queen. (Hoon Lee believes that the character is "constantly evolving" and is not interested in "figuring out the label of who he is and every aspect of that."[77]) |
Rachel Johnson | MacKenzie Phillips | The Love Boat | 1977-1987 | In a 1982 episode, "I Don't Play Anymore/Gopher's Roommate/Crazy for You", Phillips portrays a trans woman named Rachel Johnson who is eventually accepted as a friend by her old high school classmate, series regular Fred Grandy.[citation needed] |
María José | Paco León | La Casa de las Flores | 2018-2020 | Trans woman. [Citation needed:August 2018] |
Judy | Rebecca Root | Boy Meets Girl | 2015-2016 | Trans woman. [Citation needed:July 2019] |
Gil Kessler | John Schuck | The Golden Girls | 1985-1992 | In the Season 3, episode 8, titled "Brotherly Love", Gil is a city council candidate who comes out as a trans man.[citation needed] |
Kiki | Glen Campbell | Queer as Folk | 2000-2005 | Later seasons featured a minor transgender character named Kiki (usually described by other characters as "Kiki the Waitress, formerly known as Kenny the Waiter").[78] This included episodes such as "We Will Survive!," "Bored Out of Ya Fucking Mind" and "Big Fucking Mouth". |
Kim | Damon Herriman | Secret City | 2016-Present | An Australian drama television series in which a political journalist uncovers a secret city of interlocked conspiracies, putting innocent lives in danger including her own. Her ex-husband, Kim, is a trans woman.[79] |
Kyla | Jamie Clayton | Hung | 2009-2011 | In season 3, Jamie Clayton plays Kyla, a trans woman, in two episodes in the third season in 2011.[citation needed] |
Maura Lee Karupt | Alan Mingo Jr. | Doom Patrol | 2019-Present | Danny is a sentient, genderqueer, teleporting street which is being haunted by the Bureau of Normalcy. Former Bureau agent Morris Wilson has become a drag queen named Maura Lee Karupt who helps keep Danny going by sustaining a party atmosphere.[citation needed] |
Micah Lee Pierce Williams |
Leo Sheng Brian Michael Smith |
The L Word: Generation Q | 2019-Present | Micah Lee and Pierce Williams are both trans men, with Lee a protagonist and Williams a secondary character.[citation needed] |
Denise Lockwood | Alexandra Grey | Chicago Med | 2015-Present | Denise Lockwood is a trans woman who appears in episode 3 of season 2, and is the sister of nurse Maggie Lockwood.[citation needed] She is also a recurring character. |
Lola | Shakina Nayfack | Difficult People | 2015-2017 | Lola is a coworker of Billy Eichner introduced in the second season.[citation needed] |
Sopia Lopez | Jonathan Del Arco | Nip/Tuck | 2003-2010 | Trans woman. [Citation needed:July 2019] |
Louise | Jessica Crockett | Dark Angel | 2000-2002 | In Season 1, episode 8, titled ""Out"Back at Jam Pony", Normal has a date with a woman who is actually transgender.[citation needed] After he finds out, he decides that he doesn't care about her past, only to discover that Louise (Played by actress Jessica Crockett) is a lesbian. This was the first time a trans woman was cast to play a trans character on American television. |
Cindy McCauliff | Lisa Edelstein | Ally McBeal | 1997-2002 | Trans woman who appears in the fourth season of the show. [citation needed] |
Louis McGerry | Tyler Luke Cunningham | Holby City | 1999-Present | Series 22 of the show introduced Louis McGerry, the show's first regular transgender character.[citation needed] Louis is a nurse at the titular hospital and the son of CEO and neurosurgeon Max McGerry. |
Janet McKay | Shelley Hack | Tales from the Crypt | 1989-1996 | In the episode "The Assassin", housewife Janet McKay is revealed to once having been a CIA operative named Ronald Wald.[citation needed] |
Anna Madrigal | Olympia Dukakis | Tales of the City | 1993 | Trans woman. [Citation needed:July 2019] |
Sam Malloy | Aidan Mitchell | The Riches | 2007-2008 | Sam, the youngest Malloy child, is transgender and frequently dresses in feminine clothing. The idea for Sam's non-binary gender expression came about before Izzard, a gender non-conforming comedian, joined the show.[80] Sam's gender expression is accepted and respected by the Malloy parents and siblings. |
Margo | Jen Richards | Mrs. Fletcher | 2019 | Margo is the teacher for the title character's creative writing class.[citation needed] |
Ben Marks | Isaiah Stannard | Good Girls | 2018-Present | Ben Marks, son of Annie's and Gregg, is bullied and comes out as a transgender boy in season 2 with the name Ben.[citation needed] |
Nomi Marks | Jamie Clayton | Sense8 | 2015-2018 | Nomi Marks is a computer hacktivist, and lesbian trans woman, living in San Francisco who finds herself mentally linked to 7 other people from around the world[81] and is in a relationship with Amanita Caplan.[82][83] Nomi is also part of the Cluster. |
Mae Martin | Mae Martin | Feel Good | 2020–Present | Mae, a recovering addict, does not initially identify her sexuality who had relationships with men and women, calling herself transgender, non-binary, and bisexual in the show's fifth episode. She is in a same-sex relationship with George, who identified as straight before she started dating Mae[84][85] and tried to have sex with a man in the show's sixth episode. |
Jazmin Martinez | Hailie Sahar | Good Trouble | 2019–Present | Trans woman.[86] |
Matthew | Garcia | Party of Five (2020) | 2020 | Matthew is Lucia's undocumented trans friend who works at the Acostas' restaurant.[citation needed] |
Maxine | Callum Booth-Ford | Butterfly | 2018 | Three-part miniseries starring Anna Friel and 11-year old Callum Booth-Ford as her daughter Max(ine).[87] |
Alexis Meade | Rebecca Romijn | Ugly Betty | 2006-2010 | Alexis is a trans woman who was initially portrayed by Elizabeth Penn Payne for the first twelve episodes of her appearance (when she was listed in the credits as "Masked Lady").[88] |
Mia | Chloë Sevigny | Hit & Miss | 2012 | Mia, a trans woman, is a contract killer who finds out that her ex-girlfriend, from before transitioning, is dead and that she was pregnant and had their child.[citation needed] |
Molly Milkovich | ____ | Shameless (US) | 2011-Present | Trans woman. [Citation needed:July 2019] |
Paul Millander | Matt O'Toole | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | 2000-2015 | A serial killer who posed as a judge, and serves as Gil Grissom's nemesis, he is featured in multiple episodes. It is later shown that he underwent sexual reassignment in his youth and as a result his relationship with his mother was a complicated one, with him leading a double life, one as Paul Millander and the other as the "Honorable Judge Douglas Mason. |
Ava Moore | Famke Janssen | Nip/Tuck | 2003-2010 | Trans woman, with GLAAD criticizing the character as problematic because of her "psychotic and incestuous behavior".[89] |
Linda Murkland | Linda Gray | All That Glitters | 1977 | Linda is a transgender fashion model,[90] who is said to be the first transgender series regular on American television.[91] |
Peter Conlan | Ally Beardsley | Dimension20, The Unsleeping City | 2019-present | Trans man. Peter Conlan, better known as Pete the Plug, is a former drug dealer and currently works at Uncommon Knowledge in New York City. He is also the Vox Phantasma. He is played by the Non-Binary actor Ally Beardsley. |
Nia Nal / Dreamer | Nicole Maines | Supergirl | 2015–Present | Nia is a transgender woman working at CatCO and is introduced in Season 4.[92] |
Hans Neeman | Tracey Ullman | The Tracey Ullman Show | 1987-1990 | Trans man. [Citation needed:July 2019] |
Noah | Elliot Fletcher | Faking It | 2014-2016 | Noah is a gay trans man in this series.[41] |
Cassandra O'Brien | Zoë Wanamaker | Doctor Who | 1963–Present | Cassandra, a villainous character, is an "incidental parody of transgender womanhood," and a "fractured mirror-image of medical transition itself" according to one reviewer,[93] who also called her character "problematic". |
Oh | DoungJai Hiransri | 30 Degrees in February | 2012-Present | Oh is a Thai Kathoey who falls in love with Glenn, and later on they adopt a child.[citation needed] |
Casey Parker | Alex Blue Davis | Grey's Anatomy | 2005–present | Casey is a transgender man and war veteran who is introduced as a first-year surgical intern in Season 14.[94] |
Arun Parmar | Rebecca Hazlewood | Bad Girls | 1999-2006 | Trans woman and an inmate, she is also hinted to be bisexual as she served time in Larkhall prison.[citation needed] |
Pastor Patricia | Not stated | Bones | 2005-2017 | In the 2009 episode "The He in the She", a police teamwork to solve the murder of a transgender pastor named Patricia.[citation needed] |
Cherry Peck | Willam Belli | Nip/Tuck | 2003-2010 | Trans woman. [Citation needed:July 2019] |
Maura Pfefferman | Jeffrey Tambor | Transparent | 2014-2019 | Trans woman who comes out to her family late in life.[82][95] She is prevented from transitioning due to her health problems.[96][64] |
Theodore "Theo" Putnam | Lachlan Watson | Chilling Adventures of Sabrina | 2018-Present | Trans man/Non-Binary. Theo is Sabrina's close friend at Baxter High. He was at first known as Susie Putnam and described as non-binary.[97][98] He later transitions, identifying as a transgender boy.[99][100][101] |
Carmelita Rainer | Candis Cayne | Dirty Sexy Money | 2008-2009 | A trans woman and recurring character in this series romantically involved with the New York District Attorney, General Patrick Darling.[102][103] She later left the series after another character accidentally shot and killed her.[104] |
Alba Recio | Eduardo Espinilla (season 1) Sergi Ruíz (seasons 2 and 3) Víctor Palmero (season 8 onward) |
La que se avecina | 2007-Present | Alba is the daughter of the homophobic Antonio Recio, who is embarrassed by her, and is a main character after season nine.[citation needed] |
Drew Reeves | Zelda Williams | Dead Of Summer | 2016 | Trans man. He is gay or possibly bisexual, and ends up in a relationship with another man. [Citation needed:July 2019] |
Vera Reynolds | Peter Capaldi | Prime Suspect | 1991-2006 | Vera is a trans woman and cabaret singer in Season 3.[citation needed] |
María José Riquelme | Paulina de la Mora | The House of Flowers | 2018-2020 | María José (formerly José María Riquelme) is a transgender woman that was married to Paulina before transitioning. She remarried Paulina in the final episode of season 3 (3x11).[105] |
Raoul | Sheldon Feldner | Good Grief | 1990-1991 | Raoul is an assistant at the Lapidus's funeral home.[citation needed] |
Miss Robyn Ross | Carlotta | Number 96 | 1972-1977 | In this series, Carlotta played a showgirl revealed as transgender.[106] |
Tony Sawicki | Tatiana Maslany | Orphan Black | 2013-2017 | Trans man. [Citation needed:July 2019] He is a clone and criminal introduced in season two, with every other known clone in his "batch" as a female. |
Shea | Trace Lysette | Transparent | 2014-2019 | A HIV-positive recurring character and trans woman.[96] |
Kyle Slater | Riley Carter Millington | EastEnders | 1985–Present | Kyle appeared in the serial between 2015 and 2016, and is a trans man.[107][108] |
Julia Smith | ____ | Veronica Mars | 2004-2019 | Trans woman. [Citation needed:July 2019] |
Sally St. Claire | Annie Wallace | Hollyoaks | 1995-Present | Trans woman. [Citation needed:July 2019] |
Reverend Michael Stills | Dallas Malloy | Eli Stone | 2008-2009 | In the season two episode "Two Ministers", Michael is a trans minister who needs legal help when he loses his job after transitioning.[citation needed] |
Edie Stokes | Veronica Redd | The Jeffersons | 1975-1985 | Edie is George's old army buddy as shown in the Season 4 episode "Once a Friend" and is a trans woman.[citation needed] |
Paul Strickland | Brian Michael Smith | 9-1-1: Lone Star | 2020-Present | A black trans man who is one of the fire fighters at Station 126.[109] |
Sü | Nyla Rose | The Switch | 2016-Present | The series, the first transgender-themed television series produced in Canada, stars Nyla Rose as Sü, an IT manager who comes out as a trans woman, and is forced to rebuild her life after losing her job and her apartment as a result of her announcement.[110] |
Max Sweeney | Daniela Sea | The L Word | 2004-2009 | Bisexual trans man who struggled to figure out his identity, taking this identity "into the working and dating worlds."[111] |
Jesse Sweetland | Sadie O'Neil | Bellevue | 2017 | Trans woman. [Citation needed:July 2019] |
Liz Taylor | Denis O'Hare | American Horror Story: Hotel | 2015-2016 | Trans woman. [Citation needed:July 2019] |
Thad | Drew Pillsbury | Married... with Children | 1987-1997 | In season 9's tenth episode, "Dud Bowl", Thad, a former high school teammate of Al, is now a trans woman, to Al's dismay. Nevertheless she plays football on Al's re-organized team.[citation needed] (1987-1997) |
Adam Torres | Jordan Todosey | Degrassi | 2001-2015 | Trans man, the "only transgender regular or recurring character on scripted television" in 2011, according to GLAAD.[112] |
Trevor | Elliot Fletcher | Shameless (US) | 2011–Present | Trevor is a gay trans man in this series.[41] |
Hailey Van Kuren Blake |
Bridger Zadina Daniela Sea |
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | 1999-Present | Zadina gave a widely acclaimed performance as a male-to-female transgender teen in the episode "Transitions".[113] In the same episode, Daniela Sea plays her trans boyfriend, Blake. |
Jules Vaughn | Hunter Schafer | Euphoria | 2019–Present | Jules is trans woman who falls in love with Rue, a woman who has left rehab.[114][115][116] |
Buck Vu | Ian Alexander | The OA | 2016–2019 | Trans man.[117] |
Whiterose | BD Wong | Mr. Robot | 2015-2019 | Whiterose, the leader of a hacking collective, is a trans woman.[118] |
Cameron Wirth | Laverne Cox | Doubt | 2017 | Trans woman. [Citation needed:July 2019] |
Marci Wise | Isis King | When They See Us | 2019 | A young trans woman who is Korey's sister.[citation needed] |
Ysela | Daniela Vega | Tales of the City | 2019 | Ysela is a trans woman,[119] the first friend of Anna Madrigal, a recurring character, when she moved to San Francisco. |
Zoe | Jeffrey Carlson | All My Children | 1970-2011, 2013 | Zoe is a trans woman in this series.[120][121] |
See also
- List of transgender-related topics
- Lists of American television episodes with LGBT themes
- Media portrayals of transgender people
- List of comedy television series with LGBT characters
- List of dramatic television series with LGBT characters
- List of LGBT characters in television and radio
- List of soap operas with LGBT characters
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