Candis Cayne; (August 29, 1971) is an American actress and performance artist.
Known in the New York City nightclub scene since the 1990s, Cayne came to national attention in 2007 for portraying transgender mistress Carmelita on ABC's prime time drama Dirty Sexy Money. The role makes Cayne the first transgender actress to play a recurring transgender character in primetime.
Cayne and her fraternal twin, Dylan McDaniel, were born in 1971 on Maui, Hawaii. Their parents taught at a Waldorf school, and the family lived on campus. She graduated from Maui's Baldwin High School in 1989 and then spent a year in Los Angeles, where she trained as a dancer.
Cayne then moved to New York in the early 1990s, making a name for herself as a choreographer and drag performer. Unaware of what a transsexual was until she lived in New York, about three years after her arrival Cayne realized that the term described how she felt about herself. Already performing as "Candis Cayne" at New York gay bar Boy Bar and as a featured performer at Tour in New York's Chelsea, the entertainer also participated in Wigstock, the annual drag festival in Manhattan's East Village. In 1995 Cayne appeared in the related documentary film Wigstock: The Movie, the comedy-drama film Stonewall, and the Universal Studios comedy feature film To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar, for which she also did choreography.
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Charlie!
Burstin' your bubble like a Hubba Bubba nightmare
Charlie
Pink Mr Doom
Feel my chewy justice
Wrapping around your heart and mind and ripcage
Wrapping around your heart, your mind, your soul
We can jellico, we can jellico
Burstin' your bubble like a Hubba Bubba nightmare