List of transgender characters in film

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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
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 and he bonds with the main character, Anna, who recently broke up with her girlfriend and falls in love with Sadie, 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 or, alternatively, about a transgender boy.
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.
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.
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.
Yuji	Issei Ishida	Strange Circus	2005	Yuji, the novelist's assistant, is a transgender man.

Trans women

Characters	Actor	Work	Year	Notes
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
Chris	Maya Henry	For Nonna Anna	2017	This film stars Maya Henry as Chris, a young trans woman taking care of her ailing grandmother.
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'". 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."
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, Eddie and a few others, in the Japanese underground. The film has been described as "a documentary being made about Tokyo's gay culture" despite the fact it is a black-and-white drama film which is said to have influenced the 1971 film A Clockwork Orange.
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. Reviews were mixed 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.
Juan / Ángel Andrade / Zahara	Gael García Bernal	Bad Education	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.
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.
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. 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.
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 trans 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."
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
Aaron	Elliot Fletcher	The Fosters	2013-2018	Trans man who later dates Callie.
Candy Abundance	Angelica Ross	Pose	2018–Present	Trans woman who is HIV-positive.
Elektra Abundance	Dominique Jackson			Trans woman.
Lulu Abundance	Hailie Sahar			Trans woman.
Unique Adams	Alex Newell	Glee	2009-2015	Trans woman. By the 2013-2014 broadcast season, she had become a series regular.
Angelique	Jonny Beauchamp	Penny Dreadful	2014-2016	Trans woman. 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.
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. Toine is played by transgender actor Brian Michael Smith.
Ariel	Marina Matheus	3%	2016-2020	Marina Matheus plays Gloria's friend Ariel in this Brazilian show.
Miss Artiphys	Karen Dior	Xena: Warrior Princess	1995-2001	Trans woman in Season 2 Episode "Here She Comes... Miss Amphipolis".
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.
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!"
Ivan Aycock	Kelly Lynch	The L Word	2004-2009	Trans man.
Hannah/Matty Barton	Grace Cassidy Ash Palmisciano	Emmerdale	1972–Present	Trans man. (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.)
Shannon Beiste/Sheldon	Dot-Marie Jones	Glee	2009-2015	Sheldon is a trans man in this series.
Benni/Bernadette	Anton Rubtsov	Dark	2017-2020	Bernadette is a trans woman and prostitute who is Torben's sister.
Erica Bettis	Helen Shaver	The Education of Max Bickford	2001-2002	Trans woman.
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.
Sasha Booker	Jamie Clayton	Designated Survivor	2016-2019	The third season features Sasha Booker, a trans woman and the President's sister-in-law.
Hannah Bradford	Evie MacDonald	First Day	2020	Trans girl.
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."
Helen Brears	Bethany Black	Cucumber Banana	2015	Trans woman.
Charlie Briggs	Diana Weston	My Family	2000-2011	Diana Weston plays Charlie Briggs, an old college friend of Ben's who is transgender.
Cotton Brown	Amiyah Scott	Star	2016-2019	Trans woman. 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. 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.
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.
Robert Calvert	Misha Butler	Casualty	2015-2016	The show featured transgender character Robert in episode 26, "Fatal Error – Part Two," of its 30th season.
Carla	Eve Lindley	Mr. Robot	2015-2019	Trans woman. Known as 'Hot Carla', the local pyromaniac.
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.
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.
Cecilia Chung	Ivory Aquino	When We Rise	2017	Trans woman.
Chris	Theo Germaine	Work in Progress	2019-Present	Chris is a young trans man, barista, and boyfriend to the lead character. Germain appears in all episodes of the show but is credited as a special guest star.
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.
Cole	Tom Phelan	The Fosters	2013-2018	Trans man.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Dax	Various actors	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine	1993-1999	A symbiont, has changed genders throughout their lives.
Allyson Del Lago	Jen Richards	Nashville	2012-2018	Trans woman.
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".
Barbara Dixon	Steve Pemberton	The League of Gentlemen	1999-2002	Barbara Dixon is the proprietor of the local taxi firm, Bab's Cabs.
Martin Dunbar	Matt Greenwood	Waterloo Road	2006-2015	Trans woman. 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.
Angel Evangelista	Indya Moore	Pose	2018–Present	Angel is a trans woman in this series.
Blanca Evangelista	Mj Rodriguez			Mj is a trans woman in this series.
Morgan Finn	Joanne Boland	Strange Empire	2014-2015	Morgan is a trans man. The series is set in 1869.
Frankie Fox	Hannah Alligood	Better Things	2016-Present	Sam's middle child, Frankie, is a transgender boy.
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. Later recast to Bono, who is himself a trans man.
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.
Georgette	Beau Bridges	The Closer	2005-2012	In the episode "Make Over", Bridges plays Georgette, a transgender woman and Provenza's ex-partner.
Gittel	Hari Nef	Transparent	2014-2019	Trans woman.
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.
Lexi Haddad-DeFabrizio	Josie Totah	Saved by the Bell (2020 TV series)	2020-2021	Trans woman, played by transgender actress.
Michael Hallowell	Ellie Desautels	Rise	2018	Michael is a trans man in this series.
Mackenzie Hargreaves	Georgie Stone	Neighbours	1985–Present	Trans woman. (She is the serial's first transgender character.)
Jill Hartford	Alexandra Billings	How to Get Away with Murder	2014–Present	Trans woman. She is a colleague of Annalise, a pansexual attorney, with the latter continuing to defend her friend no matter what.
Dolly Holloway	Maren Heary	Gypsy	2017	Dolly is Jean's daughter and may be lesbian or transgender.
Ms. Hudson	Candis Cayne	Elementary	2012-2019	Trans woman.
Ma Hyun-yi	Lee Joo-young	Itaewon Class	2020	Trans woman
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.
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."
Janette	Maria Clara Spinelli	Supermax	2016	Trans woman.
Tara Jewkes	Ariel Ivo Reid	Casualty	1986-Present	Trans woman.
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.")
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.
María José	Paco León	La Casa de las Flores	2018-2020	Trans woman.
Judy	Rebecca Root	Boy Meets Girl	2015-2016	Trans woman.
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.
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"). 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.
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.
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.
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.
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. 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.
Sopia Lopez	Jonathan Del Arco	Nip/Tuck	2003-2010	Trans woman.
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. 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.
Louis McGerry	Tyler Luke Cunningham	Holby City	1999-Present	Series 22 of the show introduced Louis McGerry, the show's first regular transgender character. 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.
Anna Madrigal	Olympia Dukakis	Tales of the City	1993	Trans woman.
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. 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.
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.
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 and is in a relationship with Amanita Caplan. 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 and tried to have sex with a man in the show's sixth episode.
Jazmin Martinez	Hailie Sahar	Good Trouble	2019–Present	Trans woman.
Matthew	Garcia	Party of Five (2020)	2020	Matthew is Lucia's undocumented trans friend who works at the Acostas' restaurant.
Maxine	Callum Booth-Ford	Butterfly	2018	Three-part miniseries starring Anna Friel and 11-year old Callum Booth-Ford as her daughter Max(ine).
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").
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.
Molly Milkovich	____	Shameless (US)	2011-Present	Trans woman.
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".
Linda Murkland	Linda Gray	All That Glitters	1977	Linda is a transgender fashion model, who is said to be the first transgender series regular on American television.
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.
Hans Neeman	Tracey Ullman	The Tracey Ullman Show	1987-1990	Trans man.
Noah	Elliot Fletcher	Faking It	2014-2016	Noah is a gay trans man in this series.
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, 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.
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.
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.
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.
Cherry Peck	Willam Belli	Nip/Tuck	2003-2010	Trans woman.
Maura Pfefferman	Jeffrey Tambor	Transparent	2014-2019	Trans woman who comes out to her family late in life. She is prevented from transitioning due to her health problems.
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. He later transitions, identifying as a transgender boy.
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. She later left the series after another character accidentally shot and killed her.
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.
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.
Vera Reynolds	Peter Capaldi	Prime Suspect	1991-2006	Vera is a trans woman and cabaret singer in Season 3.
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).
Raoul	Sheldon Feldner	Good Grief	1990-1991	Raoul is an assistant at the Lapidus's funeral home.
Miss Robyn Ross	Carlotta	Number 96	1972-1977	In this series, Carlotta played a showgirl revealed as transgender.
Tony Sawicki	Tatiana Maslany	Orphan Black	2013-2017	Trans man. 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.
Kyle Slater	Riley Carter Millington	EastEnders	1985–Present	Kyle appeared in the serial between 2015 and 2016, and is a trans man.
Julia Smith	____	Veronica Mars	2004-2019	Trans woman.
Sally St. Claire	Annie Wallace	Hollyoaks	1995-Present	Trans woman.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
Jesse Sweetland	Sadie O'Neil	Bellevue	2017	Trans woman.
Liz Taylor	Denis O'Hare	American Horror Story: Hotel	2015-2016	Trans woman.
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. (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.
Trevor	Elliot Fletcher	Shameless (US)	2011–Present	Trevor is a gay trans man in this series.
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". 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.
Buck Vu	Ian Alexander	The OA	2016–2019	Trans man.
Whiterose	BD Wong	Mr. Robot	2015-2019	Whiterose, the leader of a hacking collective, is a trans woman.
Cameron Wirth	Laverne Cox	Doubt	2017	Trans woman.
Marci Wise	Isis King	When They See Us	2019	A young trans woman who is Korey's sister.
Ysela	Daniela Vega	Tales of the City	2019	Ysela is a trans woman, 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.

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

References

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External links

• Nederlands Transgender Film Festival
• Transgender Films