Eddie Redmayne as Lili Elbe in The Danish Girl (2015) (Photo: Instagram, @domkinosar)
Laverne Cox as Sophia Burset in Orange is the New Black (2013-) (Photo: Instagram, @inevitable_oitnb)
John Cameron Mitchell as Hedwig in Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) (Photo: Instagram, @jiiihae)
Gael García Bernal plays a gay actor portraying a transsexual drag queen in a short film within the film Bad Education (2004) (Photo: Instagram, @matthewcodylang)
Elle Fanning as Ray in About Ray (2015) (Photo: Instagram, @naomiwatts)
William Hurt as Luis Molina in Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985) (Photo: Instagram, @artificialeyefilm)
John Lithgow as Roberta Muldoon in The World According to Garp (1982) (Photo: Instagram, @itsjackiewow)
Cillian Murphy as Patrick “Kitten” Braden in Breakfast on Pluto (2005) (Photo: Instagram, @filmhafizasi)
Ted Levine as the Buffalo Bill Killer in The Silence of the Lambs (1991) (Photo: Instagram, @_arsehole)
Felicity Huffman plays Bree Osbourne in Transamerica (2005) (Photo: Instagram, @ cinemaecinema)
Lisa Edelstein as Cindy McCauliff in Ally McBeal (1997-2002) (Photo: Instagram, @rocknsoulla)
Jaye Davidson as Dil in The Crying Game (1992) (Photo: Instagram, @santedorazioofficial)
Jeffrey Tambor as Maura Pfefferman in Transparent (2014-) (Photo: Instagram, @pilotinspectors)
With Eddie Redmayne’s Oscar nomination for The Danish Girl at least pointing to some progress within the Academy Awards process, we take a look back at other fantastic portrayals of transgender characters in film and television.
