List of Transgender Characters in Film and Television - Television

Television

• All My Children: Zoe is a transgender character in the American soap opera.

• All That Glitters: Linda Gray played transgender fashion model Linda Murkland in this 1977 series.

• Ally McBeal: Lisa Edelstein played transsexual Cindy McCauliff in the fourth season of the show.

• Bad Girls: Arun Pamer - transsexual character who served time in Larkhall prison.

• Bones: In "The He in the She," Brennan and her team work to solve the murder of a transgender pastor named Patricia.

• Coronation Street: Hayley Cropper is the first fictional transsexual character in the British soap opera.

• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: The fifth season episode "Ch-ch-changes" focuses on illegal sex reassignment operations in the male-to-female transsexual community, and features several transsexual characters.

• CSI: Paul Millander, a transsexual character, appears in three episodes of CSI: "Pilot", "Anonymous", and "Identity Crisis" .

• Degrassi: Adam Torres (played by Jordan Todosey) is a transgender character introduced into the show in the tenth season.

• Diagnosis: Murder: A trans woman is murdered by her previous lover, who loved her as a male.

• Dirty Sexy Money: Candis Cayne, actress and transsexual performer plays Carmelita, a transsexual woman who has an affair with married New York attorney General Patrick Darling, played by William Baldwin.

• The Education of Max Bickford: Helen Shaver plays Erica, a trans woman and best friend of Max Bickford, the title character.

• Family Guy: In the episode "Quagmire's Dad", Glenn Quagmire's father, Lieutenant Commander Dan Quagmire, has gender reassignment surgery and changes her name to Ida Quagmire.

• Friends: Kathleen Turner plays Chandler Bing's dad, Charles Bing, who is a transgender Drag Queen in Las Vegas who performs under the stage name of "Helena Handbasket."

• Glee: Alex Newell plays Wade Adams (aka Unique), who is transgender.

• Hit & Miss: Chloë Sevigny plays a transgender woman, Mia. Mia 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.

• Hollyoaks: In 2010, the character Jason Costello was introduced as the British soap opera's first character to have gender identity disorder.

• It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia:Brittany Daniel plays recurring character Carmen, a male-to-female transsexual who has an on-again, off-again relationship with Mac until she gets married.

• The Jeffersons: Veronica Redd plays Edie Stokes, formerly Eddie Stokes, in the episode "Once a Friend".

• Just Shoot Me: Jenny McCarthy plays Brandi, formerly Burt, an old college friend of Finch's, in the episode "There's Something About Allison".

• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Transgender characters are featured in episodes "Fallacy" (Season 4) and "Transitions" (Season 10).

• The Love Boat: In a 1980s episode, MacKenzie Phillips portrays a trans woman who is eventually accepted as a friend by her old high school classmate, series regular Fred Grandy.

• The L Word: Moira becomes Max, a transsexual man. He becomes aggressive and unpredictable during his transition due to the hormones he is taking, and Jenny then dumps him because she does not want to be in a relationship with a man.

• The Mighty Boosh: Noel Fielding plays Old Gregg in episode "The Legend of Old Gregg (Season 2) and in the tour.

• My Family: Diana Weston plays Charlie Briggs, an old college friend of Ben's who is transsexual.

• NCIS:In the Season 1 episode "Dead Man Talking," the female person of interest in a stakeout turns out to be the male murder suspect.

• Nip/Tuck: Famke Janssen played Ava Moore in the American plastic surgery based television drama series. Jonathan Del Arco plays Sophia Lopez, whose botched surgery leads the doctors to a doctor who routinely botches surgery on transgender patients in season 1. Cherry Peck (William Belli) figures prominently in season 3.

• Number 96: In 1973, Carlotta played a showgirl revealed as transgender.

• One Piece: Mr. 2 Bon Kurei (better known as Bon Clay in English adaptations) is an okama, or transgender agent, of the criminal organization Baroque Works. Another character, Emporio Ivankov (aka Iva) is the "Queen" of Kamabakka Queendom (Kamabakka literally means "full of transvestites") and possess the powers of the "Horu Horu no Mi" devil's fruit, which grants the user the ability to create and control special hormones that can affect anyone they strike by however the user desires. One of his techniques is Emporio Onna Hormone (エンポリオ･女ホルモン, literally translated as Emporio Female Hormone) which are special female hormones that when injected into a male, causes said male (including Iva himself) to be transformed complete into a female (Iva uses it to change the sex of male opponents and even himself to female).

• Queer as Folk: Later seasons featured a minor transgender character named Kiki (usually described by other characters as "Kiki the waitress, formerly known as Kenny the Waiter").

• Second Serve: A TV film based on the autobiography of tennis pro Renée Richards (played by Vanessa Redgrave), whose player status was challenged in 1976 when it was revealed that she was transsexual.

• Soldier's Girl (2003): A drama film based on real-life story of the relationship between Private Barry Winchell and singer Calpernia Addams, starring Lee Pace as Calpernia.

• South Park: Herbert Garrison, an elementary school teacher, known for a time as Janet Garrison.

• The Surreal Life: Alexis Arquette, a trans woman who appeared in the reality series.

• Tales of the City (1993): Based on Armistead Maupin's novel of the same name, this miniseries is set in a San Francisco apartment building run by a Anna Madrigal (Olympia Dukakis), an oversolicitous transsexual landlady.

• "TransGeneration" (2005): An eight episode documentary series of four transgender college students.

• Twin Peaks (1990): David Duchovny portrays an FBI agent cross dresser who purportedly picked it up while working undercover.

• Two and a Half Men: In the episode "An Old Flame With a New Wick" (Chris O'Donnell) plays a transgender man.

• Ugly Betty: Rebecca Romijn plays Alexis Meade, a fictional trans woman in the American drama/comedy television series.

• Waterloo Road: In 2011, British School-based Drama Waterloo Road 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.

• WKRP in Cincinnati: In episode "Hotel Oceanview", Linda Carlson plays Nikki Sinckler, a transgender woman and former high school buddy of salesman Herb Tarlek, whom she unwittingly tries to seduce.