Favourite movie performances by cis actors as trans characters

John Lithgow as Roberta Muldoon in “”The World According To Garp”

Karen Black as Joanne in “Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean”

Chris Sarandon as Leon in “Dog Day Afternoon”

Jaye Davidson

Oh damn the poll didn't post!

3 of those were the options along with Terence Stamp, Glenn Close, Eddie Redmayne, Hillary Swank and of course Ted Levine

Lee Pace in Soldier's Girl.

Carmen Maura in Law of Desire

Michael Caine in “Dressed to Kill.”

Jailbird Huffman - Transamerica

Felissa Rose in “Sleepaway Camp”

Phillip Seymour Hoffmann in Flawless

6'2" Liev Schrieber, Mixed Nuts. Terrible movie but I thought he was great in it.

Robert Reed as "Patricia" on Medical Center!

John Davidson in The Streets of San Francisco

Hilary Swank as Teena Brandon

Michael Jeter in "the fisher king" but I'm not sure he counts in the "cis" category.

R11 he was extraordinary in that role—fairly bold for 70s TV.

Mike Brady

David Duchovny in Twin Peaks

Hannibal Lector says at one that that Buffalo Bill is a crazy person who thinks he's trans. Not really trans, OP.

Pamela Springsteen in Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers and Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland

Michael Dorsey as Dorothy Michaels as Emily Kimberley

Cillian Murphy in Breakfast On Pluto

[quote]Hannibal Lector says at one that that Buffalo Bill is a crazy person who thinks he's trans. Not really trans, OP.

Buffalo Bill was partly based on Ed Gein, the cross-dressing serial killer who also inspired the character of Norman Bates. Like Gein, both characters are not trans, but identify and live as men, while their cross-dressing is private and ritualistic.

Jame Gumb self identified as trans. That's the rules.

Phillip Seymour Hoffmann in Flawless

I think he was a drag queen and not a trans anything.

Vanessa Redgrave in Second Serve.

Starts off as a man then becomes a woman. Funnily enough Vanessa looks odd as a woman after she transitions.

Chris Morley as Sally Armitage on GENERAL HOSPITAL (1980)

Another vote for Flicka “Ruh Roh” Huffman

La Redmayne in The Danish Girl. He showed real hog before the character chopped it off.

Jame Gumb was completely insane so identifying as trans carried the same weight as identifying as Napoleon, r23

In that universe, Hannibal Lector is a genius psychiatrist who is never wrong. If he said Jame Gumb isn't trans then that's that.

Jame Gumb meets the modern day criteria of being trans. He literally tucks FFS!

Hunter Schafer could play him in a remake.

Lecter!

Antonia San Juan in Almodóvar's All About My Mother

Steven Mackintosh in Different for Girls

He doesn't meet the modern day criteria of being trans, r29. Anyone who wears a human skin suit is fucking nuts and loses the right to identify as anything. He was also rejected from a bunch of trans medical programs because the doctors knew he was crazy. It's in the book, movie or both.

Trans people can be serial killers!

Maura Pfefferman ("Moppa") in Transparent. But I mainly like it because it's the best contemporary Jewish-American TV series I've ever seen.

^ R35 Jeffrey Tambor as Maura Pfefferman

[quote]Jame Gumb meets the modern day criteria of being trans. He literally tucks FFS!

No — he’s a DRAG QUEEN 💃🏻

Linda Hunt as Billy Kwan.

38 responses in and no mention of Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis in "Some Like it Hot"?

Hilary Swank in everything.

R39 They disguised themselves as women to hide from the mafia, so it’s not a trans film; it’s a movie about how far men will go out of desperation. The humor is in how uncomfortable they are cross-dressing, not that they are into it. “Tootsie” and “Mrs. Doubtfire” are in the same vein.

Ving Rhames in [italic]Holiday Heart[/italic].

Daniela Vega in "A Fantastic Woman".

Favorite

JHC

Jamie Lee Curtis in TRUE LIES. He never again managed to look so feminine.

All of them.

[quote]Linda Hunt as Billy Kwan.

Billy wasn't trans.

Ving Rhames wasn’t trans in Holiday Heart. He was just a drag queen.

Go to your orgy R47