enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Cross-gender acting - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-gender_acting

    Male-to-female cross-gender actors were either viewed as shameful, or they gained wealth and social status when playing women who married well-off men. In instances where boys acted as women, it was because they were seen as objects of desire, much like women, and they were also in a subordinate position in the hierarchy scale.

  3. Onnagata - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onnagata

    Onnagata (女形/女方, lit. 'female role'), also oyama (女形), are male actors who play female roles in kabuki theatre. [1] It originated in 1629 after women were banned from performing in kabuki performances. [2] There are many specific techniques that actors must learn to master the role of onnagata.

  4. Cross-dressing in film and television - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-dressing_in_film_and...

    Meryl Streep played a male rabbi in an episode of Angels in America (2003). [5] Michelle Ehlen plays a butch lesbian actress who gets cast as a man in a film in the comedic feature Butch Jamie (2007). In the 1992 Kannada movie Bombat Hendthi, a well-known male actor and dancer named Sridar

  5. List of transgender characters in television - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_transgender...

    After eight seasons with several leads spread around obscure and ambiguous dialogues, with some episodes themed around transexuality and even a female character with a male name ('Mr Kaplan'), the true identity of the notorious criminal, and main character, Raymond Reddington, is revealed to be of Katerina Rostova, a famous soviet agent.

  6. AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFI's_100_Years...100_Stars

    With the death of Sidney Poitier in January 2022, all male living legends and nominees have now died. There is one surviving female living legend, Sophia Loren (90), and 4 remaining female nominees: Ann Blyth (96), Claire Bloom (93), Rita Moreno (92) and Margaret O'Brien (87). The most recent nominee to die is Mitzi Gaynor, aged 93, in October ...

  7. List of feature films with transgender characters - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_feature_films_with...

    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". United States [32] 1979 Life of Brian: Loretta Trans woman

  8. Effeminacy - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effeminacy

    Effeminacy or male femininity [1] [2] is the embodiment of feminine traits in boys or men, particularly those considered untypical of men or masculinity. [3] These traits include roles , stereotypes , behaviors, and appearances that are socially associated with girls and women .

  9. Category:Transgender male actors - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Transgender_male...

    Transgender male actors by nationality (1 C) Pages in category "Transgender male actors" The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total.