Famous Cisgender Actors Who Played Transgender Roles

Jared Leto

CIS actors playing trans characters
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Dallas Buyer’s Club (20143): The film and performance that really put the question of whether CIS actors should be playing trans characters into the mainstream. Jared Leto gave an Oscar winning performance in this exceedingly heteronormative film about the AIDS crisis. Leto’s first awards wins contained almost no mention of trans women or the trans community, which he course corrected by the end of his awards season.

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