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(<a href="/wiki/Talk:Cross-dressing_in_film_and_television#Split_proposal" title="Talk:Cross-dressing in film and television">discuss</a>) <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">February 2024</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Glen_or_Glenda.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/Glen_or_Glenda.jpg" decoding="async" width="275" height="425" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="275" data-file-height="425" /></a><figcaption>Film poster for <i><a href="/wiki/Glen_or_Glenda" title="Glen or Glenda">Glen or Glenda</a></i></figcaption></figure> <p><b>Cross-dressing and drag in film and television</b> has followed a long history of <a href="/wiki/Cross-dressing" title="Cross-dressing">cross-dressing</a> and <a href="/wiki/Drag_queen" title="Drag queen">drag</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Theatre_in_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Theatre in England">English stage</a>, and made its appearance in the early days of the <a href="/wiki/Silent_film" title="Silent film">silent films</a>. <a href="/wiki/Charlie_Chaplin" title="Charlie Chaplin">Charlie Chaplin</a> and <a href="/wiki/Stan_Laurel" title="Stan Laurel">Stan Laurel</a> brought the tradition from the English <a href="/wiki/Music_hall" title="Music hall">music halls</a> when they came to the United States with <a href="/wiki/Fred_Karno" title="Fred Karno">Fred Karno</a>'s comedy troupe in 1910. Both Chaplin and Laurel occasionally <a href="/wiki/Cross-dressing" title="Cross-dressing">dressed as women</a> in their films. Even the beefy American actor <a href="/wiki/Wallace_Beery" title="Wallace Beery">Wallace Beery</a> appeared in a series of silent films as a Swedish woman. <a href="/wiki/The_Three_Stooges" title="The Three Stooges">The Three Stooges</a>, especially Curly (<a href="/wiki/Curly_Howard" title="Curly Howard">Jerry Howard</a>), sometimes appeared in <a href="/wiki/Drag_(clothing)" class="mw-redirect" title="Drag (clothing)">drag</a> in their short films. The tradition has continued for many years, usually played for laughs. Only in recent decades have there been dramatic films which included cross-dressing, possibly because of strict censorship of American films until the mid-1960s. One early exception was <a href="/wiki/Alfred_Hitchcock" title="Alfred Hitchcock">Alfred Hitchcock</a>'s thriller <i><a href="/wiki/Murder!" title="Murder!">Murder!</a></i>, where the murderer is a <a href="/wiki/Transvestism" title="Transvestism">transvestite</a> who wears particularly frilly dresses and petticoats. <a href="/wiki/Cross-gender_acting" title="Cross-gender acting">Cross-gender acting</a>, on the other hand, refers to actors or actresses portraying a character of the opposite gender. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Film_and_video">Film and video</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cross-dressing_in_film_and_television&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Film and video"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-More_citations_needed plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Refimprove" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs additional citations for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verification</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Cross-dressing_in_film_and_television" title="Special:EditPage/Cross-dressing in film and television">improve this article</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a> in this section. 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The film is a remake of a 1935 French movie, <i><a href="/wiki/Fanfare_of_Love" title="Fanfare of Love">Fanfare of Love</a></i>, from the story by <a href="/wiki/Robert_Thoeren" title="Robert Thoeren">Robert Thoeren</a> and Michael Logan, which was remade in 1951 by German director <a href="/wiki/Kurt_Hoffmann" title="Kurt Hoffmann">Kurt Hoffmann</a> as <i><a href="/wiki/Fanfares_of_Love" title="Fanfares of Love">Fanfares of Love</a></i>. </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Blake_Edwards" title="Blake Edwards">Blake Edwards</a>'s 1982 <a href="/wiki/Musical_film" title="Musical film">musical</a> <a href="/wiki/Comedy_film" title="Comedy film">comedy film</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Victor/Victoria" title="Victor/Victoria">Victor/Victoria</a></i>, Victoria Grant, a struggling soprano, is unable to find work but she finds success when she becomes "Count Victor Grazinski", a female impersonator. The film is a remake of <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/wiki/Viktor_und_Viktoria" class="mw-redirect" title="Viktor und Viktoria">Viktor und Viktoria</a></i></span>, a German film of 1933. </p><p><a href="/wiki/David_Henry_Hwang" title="David Henry Hwang">David Henry Hwang</a>'s 1988 play <i><a href="/wiki/M._Butterfly" title="M. Butterfly">M. Butterfly</a></i> focuses on a love affair between a <a href="/wiki/French_people" title="French people">French</a> diplomat and a male <a href="/wiki/Beijing" title="Beijing">Beijing</a> opera singer who plays <i><a href="/wiki/Dan_(Chinese_opera)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dan (Chinese opera)">dan</a></i>, or female, roles. </p><p>Dr. Frank 'n' Furter in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Rocky_Horror_Picture_Show" title="The Rocky Horror Picture Show">The Rocky Horror Picture Show</a></i> wore nothing but women's clothing the entire film/play. </p><p>In <i><a href="/wiki/The_Drew_Carey_Show" title="The Drew Carey Show">The Drew Carey Show</a></i>, Drew's brother, Steve Carey, is a cross-dresser. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Robin_Williams" title="Robin Williams">Robin Williams</a> played a divorced father who dressed as a nanny to be with his children in the 1993 comedy <i><a href="/wiki/Mrs._Doubtfire" title="Mrs. Doubtfire">Mrs. Doubtfire</a></i>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Dame_Edna" class="mw-redirect" title="Dame Edna">Dame Edna</a> was an elderly drag queen with "wisteria-colored hair" who did international chat shows in the 1990s. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="As_a_central_plot_element">As a central plot element</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cross-dressing_in_film_and_television&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: As a central plot element"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Movies that feature <a href="/wiki/Cross-dressing" title="Cross-dressing">cross-dressing</a> as a central plot element: </p> <ul><li>Films based on the 1599 or 1600 play <i><a href="/wiki/As_You_Like_It" title="As You Like It">As You Like It</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/As_You_Like_It_(1936_film)" title="As You Like It (1936 film)">As You Like It</a></i> (1936)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/As_You_Like_It_(2006_film)" title="As You Like It (2006 film)">As You Like It</a></i> (2006)</li></ul></li> <li>Films based on the 1601 or 1602 play <i><a href="/wiki/Twelfth_Night" title="Twelfth Night">Twelfth Night</a></i> by William Shakespeare <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Twelfth_Night_(1933_film)" title="Twelfth Night (1933 film)">Twelfth Night</a></i> (1933) – an American film, the first film made by <a href="/wiki/Orson_Welles" title="Orson Welles">Orson Welles</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Twelfth_Night_(1955_film)" title="Twelfth Night (1955 film)">Twelfth Night</a></i> (1955) – a <a href="/wiki/Cinema_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Cinema of the Soviet Union">Soviet film</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Twelfth_Night_(1986_film)" title="Twelfth Night (1986 film)">Twelfth Night</a></i> (1986) – an Australian film</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Twelfth_Night_(1996_film)" title="Twelfth Night (1996 film)">Twelfth Night: Or What You Will</a></i> (1996) – a British film</li></ul></li> <li>Several films based on the 1892 United Kingdom play <i><a href="/wiki/Charley%27s_Aunt" title="Charley's Aunt">Charley's Aunt</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Brandon_Thomas_(playwright)" title="Brandon Thomas (playwright)">Brandon Thomas</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Charley%27s_Aunt_(1915_film)" title="Charley's Aunt (1915 film)">Charley's Aunt</a></i> (1915) – an American film</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Charley%27s_Aunt_(1925_film)" title="Charley's Aunt (1925 film)">Charley's Aunt</a></i> (1925) - an American film</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Charley%27s_Aunt_(1926_film)" title="Charley's Aunt (1926 film)">Charley's Aunt</a></i> (1926) - a Swedish film</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Charley%27s_Aunt_(1930_film)" title="Charley's Aunt (1930 film)">Charley's Aunt</a></i> (1930)</li> <li><i>La tía de las muchachas</i> (1938) – a Mexican film</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Charley%27s_(Big-Hearted)_Aunt" title="Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt">Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt</a></i> (1940)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Charley%27s_Aunt_(1941_film)" title="Charley's Aunt (1941 film)">Charley's Aunt</a></i> (1941)</li> <li><i>Fíjate qué suave</i> (1948) – Mexican remake of <i>La tía de las muchachas</i> (1938)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Charleys_Tante" class="mw-redirect" title="Charleys Tante">Charleys Tante</a></i> (1956) – a German film</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Charles%27_Aunt" title="Charles' Aunt">Charles' Aunt</a></i> (1959) – a Danish film starring <a href="/wiki/Dirch_Passer" title="Dirch Passer">Dirch Passer</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Charleys_Tante" class="mw-redirect" title="Charleys Tante">Charleys Tante</a></i> (1963) – a German film</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hello,_I%27m_Your_Aunt!" title="Hello, I'm Your Aunt!">Hello, I'm Your Aunt!</a></i> (1975) – a Soviet film</li> <li><i>La tía de Carlos</i> (Charles' aunt) (1981) – a Spanish film starring Paco Martínez Soria</li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Les_R%C3%A9sultats_du_f%C3%A9minisme" title="Les Résultats du féminisme">Les Résultats du féminisme</a></i> (1906), remade as <i>In the Year 2000</i> (1912); the latter believed to be lost</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Little_House_in_Kolomna" title="The Little House in Kolomna">The Little House in Kolomna</a></i> (1913) – a Russian comedy based on the joke poem by <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Pushkin" title="Alexander Pushkin">Alexander Pushkin</a> starring <a href="/wiki/Ivan_Mosjoukine" title="Ivan Mosjoukine">Ivan Mosjoukine</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Masquerader_(1914_film)" title="The Masquerader (1914 film)">The Masquerader</a></i> (1914) – after being fired from a film studio, <a href="/wiki/Charlie_Chaplin" title="Charlie Chaplin">Charlie Chaplin</a>'s character dresses up as a woman in order to return to the studio</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Woman_(1915_film)" title="A Woman (1915 film)">A Woman</a></i> (1915) – <a href="/wiki/Charlie_Chaplin" title="Charlie Chaplin">Charlie Chaplin</a>'s character dresses up as "Nora" in order to spend more time with his new girlfriend Edna</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/I_Don%27t_Want_to_Be_a_Man" title="I Don't Want to Be a Man">I Don't Want to Be a Man</a></i> (<i>Ich möchte kein Mann sein</i>) (1918) – <a href="/wiki/Ossi_Oswalda" title="Ossi Oswalda">Ossi Oswalda</a> is a woman who poses as a man to attend a lavish ball</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Yankee_Doodle_in_Berlin" title="Yankee Doodle in Berlin">Yankee Doodle in Berlin</a></i> (1919) – <a href="/wiki/Bothwell_Browne" title="Bothwell Browne">Bothwell Browne</a>'s character Captain Bob White dresses as a woman to steal a map from <a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_II" title="Wilhelm II">the Kaiser</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Madame_Behave" title="Madame Behave">Madame Behave</a></i> (1925) – <a href="/wiki/Julian_Eltinge" title="Julian Eltinge">Julian Eltinge</a>'s character Jack poses as a woman to evade the police</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Unholy_Three_(1925_film)" title="The Unholy Three (1925 film)">The Unholy Three</a></i> (1925) – <a href="/wiki/Lon_Chaney_Sr." class="mw-redirect" title="Lon Chaney Sr.">Lon Chaney</a>'s character Echo poses as an elderly woman to steal a necklace</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/She_Goes_to_War" title="She Goes to War">She Goes to War</a></i> (1929) – <a href="/wiki/Eleanor_Boardman" title="Eleanor Boardman">Eleanor Boardman</a> is the heroine who dresses as a man to fight in <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Unholy_Three_(1930_film)" title="The Unholy Three (1930 film)">The Unholy Three</a></i> (1930) – sound remake</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Victor_and_Victoria" title="Victor and Victoria">Viktor und Viktoria</a></i> (1933) – a woman impersonates a female impersonator, later remade as <i><a href="/wiki/First_a_Girl" title="First a Girl">First a Girl</a></i> (1935) and <i>Victor Victoria</i> in 1982; see below</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Queen_Christina_(film)" title="Queen Christina (film)">Queen Christina</a></i> (1933) – <a href="/wiki/Greta_Garbo" title="Greta Garbo">Greta Garbo</a>'s character Christina often dresses as a boy to have greater freedom, eventually meeting Antonio, the Spanish envoy, dressed as a boy</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/She_Loves_Me_Not_(1934_film)" title="She Loves Me Not (1934 film)">She Loves Me Not</a></i> (1934), remade as <i><a href="/wiki/True_to_the_Army" title="True to the Army">True to the Army</a></i> (1942) and <i><a href="/wiki/How_to_Be_Very,_Very_Popular" title="How to Be Very, Very Popular">How to Be Very, Very Popular</a></i> (1955)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Girls_Will_Be_Boys" title="Girls Will Be Boys">Girls Will Be Boys</a></i> (1934) – <a href="/wiki/Dolly_Haas" title="Dolly Haas">Dolly Haas</a> disguises herself as a man</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Peter_(1934_film)" title="Peter (1934 film)">Peter</a></i> (1934) – a musical comedy by <a href="/wiki/Henry_Koster" title="Henry Koster">Henry Koster</a> starring <a href="/wiki/Franciska_Gaal" title="Franciska Gaal">Franciska Gaal</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/First_a_Girl" title="First a Girl">First a Girl</a></i> (1935) – a comedy in which <a href="/wiki/Jessie_Matthews" title="Jessie Matthews">Jessie Matthews</a> dresses as a man. English remake of <i><a href="/wiki/Victor_and_Victoria" title="Victor and Victoria">Viktor und Viktoria</a></i> (1933)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sylvia_Scarlett" title="Sylvia Scarlett">Sylvia Scarlett</a></i> (1935) – <a href="/wiki/Katharine_Hepburn" title="Katharine Hepburn">Katharine Hepburn</a> dresses as a man for most of the film; this is her first film with <a href="/wiki/Cary_Grant" title="Cary Grant">Cary Grant</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Devil_Doll" class="mw-redirect" title="The Devil Doll">The Devil Doll</a></i> (1936) – <a href="/wiki/Lionel_Barrymore" title="Lionel Barrymore">Lionel Barrymore</a> plays an evil, elderly woman</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Yiddle_with_His_Fiddle" class="mw-redirect" title="Yiddle with His Fiddle">Yiddle with His Fiddle</a></i> (1936) – <a href="/wiki/Molly_Picon" title="Molly Picon">Molly Picon</a> plays a traveling musician who dresses as a boy for safety</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Bringing_Up_Baby" title="Bringing Up Baby">Bringing Up Baby</a></i> (1938) – Cary Grant cross-dresses</li> <li><i>Sysmäläinen</i> (1938) – Finnish film set in the 17th century where the main female character disguises herself as a man who pretends to be a woman.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Black_Sheep_of_Whitehall" title="The Black Sheep of Whitehall">The Black Sheep of Whitehall</a></i> (1942) – comedian <a href="/wiki/Will_Hay" title="Will Hay">Will Hay</a> wryly impersonates a nurse and spends the night with the hospital nurses in this wartime British comedy</li> <li><i>Me ha besado un hombre</i> (1944) – Mexican comedy in which <a href="/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Elena_Marqu%C3%A9s" title="María Elena Marqués">María Elena Marqués</a> adopts her deceased brother's identity to migrate from Spain to Mexico City; remade in 1953</li> <li><i>La hija del regimiento</i> (1944) – Mexican musical comedy in which <a href="/wiki/Mapy_Cort%C3%A9s" title="Mapy Cortés">Mapy Cortés</a>, secretly raised within an all-male regiment, cross-dresses as a cadet</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Fram_f%C3%B6r_lilla_M%C3%A4rta" title="Fram för lilla Märta">Fram för lilla Märta</a></i> (1945) – a Swedish film; a musician, played by <a href="/wiki/Stig_J%C3%A4rrel" title="Stig Järrel">Stig Järrel</a>, cross-dresses to get a job in an all-female orchestra</li> <li><i>Op med lille Martha</i> (1946) – a Danish remake of <i>Fram för lilla Märta</i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Little_Giant" title="Little Giant">Little Giant</a></i> (1946) – <a href="/wiki/Bud_Abbott" title="Bud Abbott">Bud Abbott</a> plays the Grandmother</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Time_of_Their_Lives" title="The Time of Their Lives">The Time of Their Lives</a></i> (1946) – a comedy in which <a href="/wiki/Marjorie_Reynolds" title="Marjorie Reynolds">Marjorie Reynolds</a>'s character Melody Allen dresses as a man</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Boy!_What_a_Girl!" title="Boy! What a Girl!">Boy! What a Girl!</a></i> (1947) – playing the part of an out of work burlesque comic named Bumpsie, <a href="/wiki/Tim_Moore_(comedian)" title="Tim Moore (comedian)">Tim Moore</a> gives a frightfully hilarious female impersonation</li> <li><i>Enrédate y verás</i> (1948) - Mexican comedy in which <a href="/wiki/Emilia_Gui%C3%BA" title="Emilia Guiú">Emilia Guiú</a> cross-dresses as her cousin, a soldier</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Kind_Hearts_and_Coronets" title="Kind Hearts and Coronets">Kind Hearts and Coronets</a></i> (1949) – <a href="/wiki/Alec_Guinness" title="Alec Guinness">Alec Guinness</a> plays Lady Agatha D'Ascoyne</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/I_Was_a_Male_War_Bride" title="I Was a Male War Bride">I Was a Male War Bride</a></i> (1949) – Cary Grant is a French officer who marries a U.S. Army officer played by <a href="/wiki/Ann_Sheridan" title="Ann Sheridan">Ann Sheridan</a> and cross-dresses to pass as a bride</li> <li><i>Yo quiero ser hombre</i> (1950) – Mexican comedy in which <a href="/wiki/Alma_Rosa_Aguirre" title="Alma Rosa Aguirre">Alma Rosa Aguirre</a> cross-dresses as a boy to carry out an inheritance scheme plotted by her aunt (<a href="/wiki/Sara_Garc%C3%ADa" title="Sara García">Sara García</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/I_Am_Very_Macho" title="I Am Very Macho">I Am Very Macho</a></i> (1953) – Mexican comedy in which <a href="/wiki/Silvia_Pinal" title="Silvia Pinal">Silvia Pinal</a> cross-dresses as her pilot brother and falls in love with the fleet's captain; remake of 1944's <i>Me ha besado un hombre (A Man Kissed Me)</i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pablo_and_Carolina" title="Pablo and Carolina">Pablo and Carolina</a></i> (1957) – filmed in 1955; Mexican musical comedy in which a socialite played by <a href="/wiki/Irasema_Dili%C3%A1n" title="Irasema Dilián">Irasema Dilián</a> pretends to be her (non-existent) brother</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Spessart_Inn" title="The Spessart Inn">Das Wirtshaus im Spessart</a></i> (1958) – young countess dresses as a poor boy and joins the robbers to save her friends</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Some_Like_It_Hot" title="Some Like It Hot">Some Like It Hot</a></i> (1959) – <a href="/wiki/Tony_Curtis" title="Tony Curtis">Tony Curtis</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jack_Lemmon" title="Jack Lemmon">Jack Lemmon</a> dress as women and join an all-female band in order to hide from the mob</li> <li><i>La joven mancornadora</i> (1961) - Mexican rural musical comedy in which <a href="/wiki/Lola_Beltr%C3%A1n" title="Lola Beltrán">Lola Beltrán</a> cross-dresses to avenge her father.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Homicidal" title="Homicidal">Homicidal</a></i> (1961) – male role played by Jean Arless was actually actress <a href="/wiki/Joan_Marshall" title="Joan Marshall">Joan Marshall</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hussar_Ballad" title="Hussar Ballad">Hussar Ballad</a></i> (1962) – a Soviet musical comedy by <a href="/wiki/Eldar_Ryazanov" title="Eldar Ryazanov">Eldar Ryazanov</a> based on the real-life story of <a href="/wiki/Nadezhda_Durova" title="Nadezhda Durova">Nadezhda Durova</a>, a soldier during the <a href="/wiki/Napoleonic_Wars" title="Napoleonic Wars">Napoleonic Wars</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Blonde_Cobra" title="Blonde Cobra">Blonde Cobra</a></i> (1963) – <a href="/wiki/Jack_Smith_(film_director)" title="Jack Smith (film director)">Jack Smith</a> spends the whole film in drag</li> <li><i>Me ha gustado un hombre</i> (1965) – Mexican-Venezuelan co-production in which <a href="/wiki/Teresa_Vel%C3%A1zquez" class="mw-redirect" title="Teresa Velázquez">Tere Velázquez</a> cross-dresses to get work as a hotel bellboy</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gunn_(film)" title="Gunn (film)">Gunn</a></i> (1967) – the killer is revealed to be a cross-dresser</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Monsieur_Hawarden" title="Monsieur Hawarden">Monsieur Hawarden</a></i> (1968) – Mr. Hawarden is actually a woman disguised as a man to avoid prosecution for killing her lover, 15 years ago; based on a true story</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Kremlin_Letter" title="The Kremlin Letter">The Kremlin Letter</a></i> (1969) – <a href="/wiki/George_Sanders" title="George Sanders">George Sanders</a> plays a transvestite</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sometimes_Aunt_Martha_Does_Dreadful_Things" title="Sometimes Aunt Martha Does Dreadful Things">Sometimes Aunt Martha Does Dreadful Things</a></i> (1971) – two criminals hide from the law, with one of them pretending to be the other's aunt</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Poszukiwany_poszukiwana" class="mw-redirect" title="Poszukiwany poszukiwana">Poszukiwany poszukiwana</a></i> (1973) – by Stanisław Bareja</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Female_Trouble" title="Female Trouble">Female Trouble</a></i> (1974) – <a href="/wiki/Divine_(actor)" class="mw-redirect" title="Divine (actor)">Divine</a> plays an obese criminal woman and an obese man</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Rocky_Horror_Picture_Show" title="The Rocky Horror Picture Show">The Rocky Horror Picture Show</a></i> (1975) – <a href="/wiki/Tim_Curry" title="Tim Curry">Tim Curry</a> plays a self-proclaimed "sweet transvestite from <a href="/wiki/Transsexual" title="Transsexual">Transsexual</a>, <a href="/wiki/Transylvania" title="Transylvania">Transylvania</a>"</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Girl" title="Once Upon a Girl">Once Upon a Girl</a></i> (1976) – <a href="/wiki/Hal_Smith_(actor)" title="Hal Smith (actor)">Hal Smith</a> portrayed as the lewd <a href="/wiki/Mother_Goose" title="Mother Goose">Mother Goose</a> who is on trial for <a href="/wiki/Obscenity" title="Obscenity">obscenity</a> due to telling the pornographic versions of three of the famous fairy tales</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Perfect_Gentlemen_(film)" title="Perfect Gentlemen (film)">Perfect Gentlemen</a></i> (1978) – The four wives (<a href="/wiki/Lauren_Bacall" title="Lauren Bacall">Lauren Bacall</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ruth_Gordon" title="Ruth Gordon">Ruth Gordon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sandy_Dennis" title="Sandy Dennis">Sandy Dennis</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lisa_Pelikan" title="Lisa Pelikan">Lisa Pelikan</a>) pose as male robbers to rob a hotel safe</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/La_Cage_aux_Folles_(film)" title="La Cage aux Folles (film)">La Cage aux Folles</a></i> (1978) – features female impersonators</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lady_Oscar_(film)" title="Lady Oscar (film)">Lady Oscar</a></i> (1979) – the <a href="/wiki/Oscar_Fran%C3%A7ois_de_Jarjayes" title="Oscar François de Jarjayes">female protagonist</a> dresses as a man, but privately acknowledges her feminine side</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dressed_to_Kill_(1980_film)" title="Dressed to Kill (1980 film)">Dressed to Kill</a></i> (1980) – the killer dresses as a woman</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Victor/Victoria" title="Victor/Victoria">Victor Victoria</a></i> (1982) – transvestism in various forms is included in this musical comedy, remake of <i>Viktor und Viktoria</i> (1933); see above</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tootsie" title="Tootsie">Tootsie</a></i> (1982) – <a href="/wiki/Dustin_Hoffman" title="Dustin Hoffman">Dustin Hoffman</a> becomes the female star of a television soap opera</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Yentl_(film)" title="Yentl (film)">Yentl</a></i> (1983) – <a href="/wiki/Barbra_Streisand" title="Barbra Streisand">Barbra Streisand</a> poses as a boy in order to study at a yeshiva</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Wicked_Lady_(1983_film)" title="The Wicked Lady (1983 film)">The Wicked Lady</a></i> (1983) – <a href="/wiki/Faye_Dunaway" title="Faye Dunaway">Faye Dunaway</a> plays a bored English aristocrat who disguises herself as a highwayman in order to rob carriages carrying passengers</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Blade_in_the_Dark" title="A Blade in the Dark">A Blade in the Dark</a></i> (1983) – <a href="/wiki/Michele_Soavi" title="Michele Soavi">Michele Soavi</a> plays Tony Rendina/Linda</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sahara_(1983_film)" title="Sahara (1983 film)">Sahara</a></i> (1984) – <a href="/wiki/Brooke_Shields" title="Brooke Shields">Brooke Shields</a> disguises herself as a young man so she can compete in a car race in the African desert</li> <li><i>Her Life as a Man</i> (1984) – <a href="/wiki/Robyn_Douglass" title="Robyn Douglass">Robyn Douglass</a> is a female reporter who poses as a man to land a job as a sportswriter for a national magazine. Based on an article by Carol Lynn Mithers.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Just_One_of_the_Guys" title="Just One of the Guys">Just One of the Guys</a></i> (1985) – <a href="/wiki/Joyce_Hyser" title="Joyce Hyser">Joyce Hyser</a> plays a boy so she can win a journalism contest</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/He%27s_My_Girl" title="He's My Girl">He's My Girl</a></i> (1987) – <a href="/wiki/T.K._Carter" class="mw-redirect" title="T.K. Carter">T.K. Carter</a> plays Reggie who pretends to be Regina when his friend wins a contest trip to Los Angeles</li> <li><i>Mascara</i> (1987) – a transvestite is murdered</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Oira_Sukeban" title="Oira Sukeban">Delinquent in Drag</a></i> (1988) – Suke Banji gets expelled from school and is forced to masquerade as a girl in his next school</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Torch_Song_Trilogy_(film)" title="Torch Song Trilogy (film)">Torch Song Trilogy</a></i> (1988) – <a href="/wiki/Harvey_Fierstein" title="Harvey Fierstein">Harvey Fierstein</a> plays Arnold, a New York female impersonator</li> <li><i>Quisiera ser hombre</i> (1988) – Mexican comedy in which <a href="/wiki/Lucero_(entertainer)" title="Lucero (entertainer)">Lucero</a> poses as a man to get work in the fashion industry.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Nobody%27s_Perfect_(1990_film)" title="Nobody's Perfect (1990 film)">Nobody's Perfect</a></i> (1990) – <a href="/wiki/Chad_Lowe" title="Chad Lowe">Chad Lowe</a> is kicked off his college's tennis team and dresses up as a girl to join the women's team and be closer to his crush</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Nuns_on_the_Run" title="Nuns on the Run">Nuns on the Run</a></i> (1990) – <a href="/wiki/Eric_Idle" title="Eric Idle">Eric Idle</a> and <a href="/wiki/Robbie_Coltrane" title="Robbie Coltrane">Robbie Coltrane</a> disguise as nuns</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Just_Like_a_Woman_(1992_film)" class="mw-redirect" title="Just Like a Woman (1992 film)">Just Like a Woman</a></i> (1992) – <a href="/wiki/Adrian_Pasdar" title="Adrian Pasdar">Adrian Pasdar</a> is Gerald, a finance executive and transvestite, who finds himself thrown out by his wife, when she discovers women's underwear in their flat</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ladybugs_(movie)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ladybugs (movie)">Ladybugs</a></i> (1992) – <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Brandis" title="Jonathan Brandis">Jonathan Brandis</a> dresses as a girl to play on the girls' soccer team</li> <li><i>A Little Bit of Lippy</i> (1992) – <a href="/wiki/Chris_Bernard" title="Chris Bernard">Chris Bernard</a> Husband is discovered cross-dressing, wife and community must come to terms</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Little_Sister_(1992_film)" title="Little Sister (1992 film)">Little Sister</a></i> (1992) – Bobby (<a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Silverman" title="Jonathan Silverman">Jonathan Silverman</a>) becomes Roberta in order to infiltrate a sorority house and be close to Diana (<a href="/wiki/Alyssa_Milano" title="Alyssa Milano">Alyssa Milano</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mrs._Doubtfire" title="Mrs. Doubtfire">Mrs. Doubtfire</a></i> (1993) – <a href="/wiki/Robin_Williams" title="Robin Williams">Robin Williams</a>'s character Daniel Hillard disguises himself as a woman so he can see his children</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Anything_for_Love" title="Anything for Love">Anything for Love</a></i> (1993) – Chris (<a href="/wiki/Corey_Haim" title="Corey Haim">Corey Haim</a>) dresses as a girl to avoid his tormentors at school</li> <li><i>My Summer as a Girl</i> (1994) – Tony (<a href="/wiki/Zach_Braff" title="Zach Braff">Zach Braff</a>) cross-dresses to get a job as a chambermaid</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Priscilla,_Queen_of_the_Desert" title="The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert">The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert</a></i> (1994) – an offbeat comedy of two men and a <a href="/wiki/Trans_woman" title="Trans woman">trans woman</a> traveling cross country to perform a drag show in the outback of Australia</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/He%27s_a_Woman,_She%27s_a_Man" title="He's a Woman, She's a Man">He's a Woman, She's a Man</a></i> (1994) – Wing (<a href="/wiki/Anita_Yuen" title="Anita Yuen">Anita Yuen</a>) is a sassy girl who enters a country-wide, males-only talent search, disguised as a man</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Color_of_Night" title="Color of Night">Color of Night</a></i> (1994) – <a href="/wiki/Jane_March" title="Jane March">Jane March</a>'s character Rose disguises herself as her dead brother Richie</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ed_Wood_(film)" title="Ed Wood (film)">Ed Wood</a></i> (1994) – Directed by <a href="/wiki/Tim_Burton" title="Tim Burton">Tim Burton</a>, the biopic stars <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Depp" title="Johnny Depp">Johnny Depp</a> as the famous low-budget cross-dressing filmmaker</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/All_Men_Are_Liars" title="All Men Are Liars">All Men Are Liars</a></i> (1995) – Mick becomes Michelle to join an all-female band in order to earn some money as a musician</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/To_Wong_Foo,_Thanks_for_Everything!_Julie_Newmar" title="To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar">To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar</a></i> (1995) – three drag queens help people in a small town after their Cadillac breaks down on the way to Los Angeles</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/My_Friend_Joe" title="My Friend Joe">My Friend Joe</a></i> (1996) – Joe (<a href="/wiki/Schuyler_Fisk" title="Schuyler Fisk">Schuyler Fisk</a>) is a girl disguising as a boy</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Associate_(1996_film)" title="The Associate (1996 film)">The Associate</a></i> (1996) – <a href="/wiki/Whoopi_Goldberg" title="Whoopi Goldberg">Whoopi Goldberg</a> dresses as a white man to prove Wall Street wrong</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Birdcage" title="The Birdcage">The Birdcage</a></i> (1996) – features drag queens, including Albert Goldman (<a href="/wiki/Nathan_Lane" title="Nathan Lane">Nathan Lane</a>), who dresses up like Val Goldman's mother to help him win the hand of his girlfriend</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Chachi_420" title="Chachi 420">Chachi 420</a></i> (1998) – a <a href="/wiki/Bollywood" class="mw-redirect" title="Bollywood">Bollywood</a> film reminiscent of Mrs. Doubtfire, in which a father gets divorced and also loses the custody of his daughter</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mulan_(1998_film)" title="Mulan (1998 film)">Mulan</a></i> (1998) – a <a href="/wiki/Mulan_(Disney_character)" title="Mulan (Disney character)">Chinese woman</a> disguises herself as a soldier under the name Ping to fight the <a href="/wiki/Huns" title="Huns">Huns</a> in place of her father<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare_in_Love" title="Shakespeare in Love">Shakespeare in Love</a></i> (1998) – includes Shakespeare's use of female impersonators in his plays</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ask_Harriet" title="Ask Harriet">Ask Harriet</a>(1998) - A a sexist sports <a href="/wiki/Journalist" title="Journalist">journalist</a> decides to apply for the job of female advice <a href="/wiki/Columnist" title="Columnist">columnist</a>.</i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Adolescence_of_Utena" title="Adolescence of Utena">Adolescence of Utena</a></i> (1999) – Utena Tenjou, a <a href="/wiki/Bisexuality" title="Bisexuality">bisexual</a> girl, cross-dresses as a male student at Ohtori Academy where she is drawn into a series of swordsmen's duels to win the hand of Anthy Himemiya, the mysterious "Rose Bride"</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Flawless_(1999_film)" title="Flawless (1999 film)">Flawless</a></i> (1999) – a conservative security guard (<a href="/wiki/Robert_De_Niro" title="Robert De Niro">Robert De Niro</a>) suffers a stroke, and is assigned to a rehabilitative program that includes singing lessons with the drag queen next door</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Bruno_(2000_film)" title="Bruno (2000 film)">Bruno</a></i> (2000) – an eight-year-old boy who wears dresses as a source of empowerment as well as feeling the need to express himself while trying to win the spelling bee</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Big_Momma%27s_House" title="Big Momma's House">Big Momma's House</a></i> (2000) – <a href="/wiki/Martin_Lawrence" title="Martin Lawrence">Martin Lawrence</a> plays an FBI agent who goes undercover and dresses as a heavy-set woman</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Holiday_Heart_(film)" class="mw-redirect" title="Holiday Heart (film)">Holiday Heart</a></i> (2000) – Holiday Heart (<a href="/wiki/Ving_Rhames" title="Ving Rhames">Ving Rhames</a>) is a <a href="/wiki/Gay_men" title="Gay men">gay</a> drag queen who performs at a night club</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/All_the_Queen%27s_Men" title="All the Queen's Men">All the Queen's Men</a></i> (2001) – <a href="/wiki/Matt_LeBlanc" title="Matt LeBlanc">Matt LeBlanc</a> and <a href="/wiki/Eddie_Izzard" title="Eddie Izzard">Eddie Izzard</a> head a team of Army men sent to infiltrate a German factory dressed as women</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Motocrossed" title="Motocrossed">Motocrossed</a></i> (2001) – <a href="/wiki/Alana_Austin" title="Alana Austin">Alana Austin</a> is a girl whose father will not let her race because she's a girl, so she goes undercover and poses as a male racer to race for her twin brother</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Triumph_of_Love_(2001_film)" title="The Triumph of Love (2001 film)">The Triumph of Love</a></i> (2001) – <a href="/wiki/Mira_Sorvino" title="Mira Sorvino">Mira Sorvino</a> plays the daughter of a usurper, who disguises herself as a young male scholar named Phocion to get closer to Agis, the rightful heir to the throne</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sorority_Boys" title="Sorority Boys">Sorority Boys</a></i> (2002) – <a href="/wiki/Barry_Watson_(actor)" title="Barry Watson (actor)">Barry Watson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Michael_Rosenbaum" title="Michael Rosenbaum">Michael Rosenbaum</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Harland_Williams" title="Harland Williams">Harland Williams</a> pose as girls when they're kicked out of their dorm</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Juwanna_Mann" title="Juwanna Mann">Juwanna Mann</a></i> (2002) – a disgraced <a href="/wiki/NBA" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA">NBA</a> player (<a href="/wiki/Miguel_A._N%C3%BA%C3%B1ez_Jr." title="Miguel A. Núñez Jr.">Miguel A. Núñez Jr.</a>) is fired from his job and dresses as a loud-mouthed <a href="/wiki/Southern_belle" title="Southern belle">Southern belle</a> in order to join the <a href="/wiki/WNBA" class="mw-redirect" title="WNBA">WNBA</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Hot_Chick" title="The Hot Chick">The Hot Chick</a></i> (2002) – <a href="/wiki/Rob_Schneider" title="Rob Schneider">Rob Schneider</a> plays a girl who turns into a man overnight, and must find a way to change back</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Girls_Will_Be_Girls_(2003_film)" title="Girls Will Be Girls (2003 film)">Girls Will Be Girls</a></i> (2003) – all three of the main characters (Evie, Coco and Varla) are drag alter egos of the actors, who have existed "on their own" for several years</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Party_Monster_(film)" title="Party Monster (film)">Party Monster</a></i> (2003) – <a href="/wiki/Seth_Green" title="Seth Green">Seth Green</a> plays club personality <a href="/wiki/James_St._James" title="James St. James">James St. James</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Stage_Beauty" title="Stage Beauty">Stage Beauty</a></i> (2004) – <a href="/wiki/Edward_Kynaston_(actor)" title="Edward Kynaston (actor)">Ned Kynaston</a> (<a href="/wiki/Billy_Crudup" title="Billy Crudup">Billy Crudup</a>) is an actor famed for his portrayal of female characters, particularly <a href="/wiki/Desdemona" title="Desdemona">Desdemona</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/Othello" title="Othello">Othello</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Connie_and_Carla" title="Connie and Carla">Connie and Carla</a></i> (2004) – <a href="/wiki/Nia_Vardalos" title="Nia Vardalos">Nia Vardalos</a> and <a href="/wiki/Toni_Collette" title="Toni Collette">Toni Collette</a> go on the run, after accidentally witnessing a mafia hit in Chicago, and wind up posing as drag queens at a gay club</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/White_Chicks" title="White Chicks">White Chicks</a></i> (2004) – <a href="/wiki/Shawn_Wayans" title="Shawn Wayans">Shawn</a> and <a href="/wiki/Marlon_Wayans" title="Marlon Wayans">Marlon Wayans</a> play FBI agent brothers who must protect two cruise line heiresses from a kidnapping plot while in disguise of the women they are protecting</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Kinky_Boots_(film)" title="Kinky Boots (film)">Kinky Boots</a></i> (2005) – <a href="/wiki/Chiwetel_Ejiofor" title="Chiwetel Ejiofor">Chiwetel Ejiofor</a>'s character Simon cross-dresses as drag queen Lola</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tyler_Perry" title="Tyler Perry">Tyler Perry</a> portrayed as <a href="/wiki/Madea" title="Madea">Madea</a> in a series of comedy films: <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Diary_of_a_Mad_Black_Woman" title="Diary of a Mad Black Woman">Diary of a Mad Black Woman</a></i> (2005)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Madea%27s_Family_Reunion" title="Madea's Family Reunion">Madea's Family Reunion</a></i> (2006)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Meet_the_Browns_(film)" title="Meet the Browns (film)">Meet the Browns</a></i> (2008)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Madea_Goes_to_Jail" title="Madea Goes to Jail">Madea Goes to Jail</a></i> (2009)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/I_Can_Do_Bad_All_By_Myself_(film)" class="mw-redirect" title="I Can Do Bad All By Myself (film)">I Can Do Bad All by Myself</a></i> (2009)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Madea%27s_Big_Happy_Family" title="Madea's Big Happy Family">Madea's Big Happy Family</a></i> (2011)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Madea%27s_Witness_Protection" title="Madea's Witness Protection">Madea's Witness Protection</a></i> (2012)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Madea_Christmas_(film)" title="A Madea Christmas (film)">A Madea Christmas</a></i> (2013)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Boo!_A_Madea_Halloween" title="Boo! A Madea Halloween">Boo! A Madea Halloween</a></i> (2016)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Boo_2!_A_Madea_Halloween" title="Boo 2! A Madea Halloween">Boo 2! A Madea Halloween</a></i> (2017)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Madea_Family_Funeral" title="A Madea Family Funeral">A Madea Family Funeral</a></i> (2019)</li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/She%27s_the_Man" title="She's the Man">She's the Man</a></i> (2006) – <a href="/wiki/Amanda_Bynes" title="Amanda Bynes">Amanda Bynes</a> dresses as a man to be accepted in Illyria's boys' soccer team and get revenge in Cornwall; based on the play <i><a href="/wiki/Twelfth_Night" title="Twelfth Night">Twelfth Night</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Butch_Jamie" title="Butch Jamie">Butch Jamie</a></i> (2007) – writer/director/actor <a href="/wiki/Michelle_Ehlen" title="Michelle Ehlen">Michelle Ehlen</a> plays a <a href="/wiki/Butch_(lesbian_slang)" title="Butch (lesbian slang)">butch</a> <a href="/wiki/Lesbian" title="Lesbian">lesbian</a> actress who gets cast as a man in a film</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jolly_Fellows_(2009_film)" title="Jolly Fellows (2009 film)">Jolly Fellows</a></i> (2009) – film about five drag performers</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dil_Bole_Hadippa!" title="Dil Bole Hadippa!">Dil Bole Hadippa!</a></i> (2009) – Bollywood actress <a href="/wiki/Rani_Mukerji" title="Rani Mukerji">Rani Mukerji</a> plays a girl who dresses as a boy in order to play on the <a href="/wiki/Indian_cricket_team" class="mw-redirect" title="Indian cricket team">Indian cricket team</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Cockpit_(2012_film)" title="Cockpit (2012 film)">Cockpit</a></i> (2012) – <a href="/wiki/Jonas_Karlsson" title="Jonas Karlsson">Jonas Karlsson</a> portrays the pilot Valle who re-applies for the job as Maria and wins it through <a href="/wiki/Affirmative_action" title="Affirmative action">affirmative action</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sisterakas" title="Sisterakas">Sisterakas</a></i> (2012) – a film from the Philippines starring <a href="/wiki/Vice_Ganda" title="Vice Ganda">Vice Ganda</a> as Bernice Sabroso</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Rocky_Horror_Picture_Show:_Let%27s_Do_the_Time_Warp_Again" title="The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again">The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again</a></i> (2016) – <a href="/wiki/Laverne_Cox" title="Laverne Cox">Laverne Cox</a> plays a transvestite</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Amnesia_Love" title="Amnesia Love">Amnesia Love</a></i> (2018) – Kimmer (<a href="/wiki/Paolo_Ballesteros" title="Paolo Ballesteros">Paolo Ballesteros</a>) is a <a href="/wiki/Gay_men" title="Gay men">gay man</a> who tries to remember his gender orientation after being washed up in a remote island</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Boyette:_Not_a_Girl_Yet" title="Boyette: Not a Girl Yet">Boyette: Not a Girl Yet</a></i> (2020) – Boyette Camacho (<a href="/wiki/Zaijian_Jaranilla" title="Zaijian Jaranilla">Zaijian Jaranilla</a>) is a flamboyant gay college student who generally cross-dresses while pretending to be straight to get closer to his crush Charles (<a href="/wiki/Inigo_Pascual" class="mw-redirect" title="Inigo Pascual">Inigo Pascual</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Stage_Mother_(2020_film)" title="Stage Mother (2020 film)">Stage Mother</a></i> (2020) - A conservative Christian woman (<a href="/wiki/Jacki_Weaver" title="Jacki Weaver">Jacki Weaver</a>) inherits her gay son's drag club in San Francisco following his death.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Everybody%27s_Talking_About_Jamie_(film)" title="Everybody's Talking About Jamie (film)"><i>Everybody's Talking About Jamie</i></a> (2021) - The story follows and is based upon the true-life story of 16-year-old British <a href="/wiki/Jamie_Campbell_(personality)" title="Jamie Campbell (personality)">Jamie Campbell</a>, as he overcomes prejudice and bullying, to step out of the darkness and become a drag queen.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Enter_the_Drag_Dragon" title="Enter the Drag Dragon">Enter the Drag Dragon</a></i> (2023) - A drag-themed <a href="/wiki/B-movie" class="mw-redirect" title="B-movie">B-movie</a> parody in which a drag queen detective is drawn into a bizarre criminal underworld.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Super_Mario_Bros._Movie" title="The Super Mario Bros. Movie">The Super Mario Bros. Movie</a></i> (2023) - In Bowser's wedding rehearsal, Kamek dresses up as Princess Peach.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="As_a_non-comedic_element">As a non-comedic element</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cross-dressing_in_film_and_television&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: As a non-comedic element"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Most of the above films are <a href="/wiki/Comedy" title="Comedy">comedies</a>. Films in which cross-dressing is treated in a more serious manner are relatively rare, although the list does include several dramas and biopics. </p> <ul><li><i>The Female Highwayman</i> (1906) – Features a female criminal who dresses as a man while committing thefts and an armed robbery</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hotel_Splendide_(1932_film)" title="Hotel Splendide (1932 film)">Hotel Splendide</a></i> (1932) – Features a criminal gang whose leader disguises himself as "Mrs. LeGrange"</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Young_Fugitives" title="Young Fugitives">Young Fugitives</a></i> (1938) – The heroine dresses as a man.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Shadows_on_the_Stairs" title="Shadows on the Stairs">Shadows on the Stairs</a></i> (1941) – Tom Armitage (<a href="/wiki/Miles_Mander" title="Miles Mander">Miles Mander</a>), dresses as a woman.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Wicked_Lady" title="The Wicked Lady">The Wicked Lady</a></i> (1945) – The heroine poses as a highwayman.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/She_Wore_a_Yellow_Ribbon" title="She Wore a Yellow Ribbon">She Wore a Yellow Ribbon</a></i> (1949) – The heroine wears a cavalry uniform to accompany her uncle to safety.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Glen_or_Glenda" title="Glen or Glenda">Glen or Glenda</a></i> (1953) – Inspired by his own experiences, <a href="/wiki/Ed_Wood" title="Ed Wood">Ed Wood</a> wrote, directed, and starred in the movie as a troubled cross-dresser, in a sort of plea for acceptance. Originally an exploitation film about <a href="/wiki/Christine_Jorgensen" title="Christine Jorgensen">Christine Jorgensen</a>.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Psycho_(1960_film)" title="Psycho (1960 film)">Psycho</a></i> (1960) – <a href="/wiki/Norman_Bates" title="Norman Bates">Norman Bates</a> (<a href="/wiki/Anthony_Perkins" title="Anthony Perkins">Anthony Perkins</a>), is a killer who wears his dead mother's clothes.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Monsieur_Hawarden" title="Monsieur Hawarden">Monsieur Hawarden</a></i> (1968) – Title character Mr. Hawarden is actually a woman who disguises herself as a man to avoid prosecution for a murder she committed fifteen years ago.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Theatre_of_Blood" title="Theatre of Blood">Theatre of Blood</a></i> (1973) – Edwina Lionheart (<a href="/wiki/Diana_Rigg" title="Diana Rigg">Diana Rigg</a>) helps her father Edward execute a plan to get revenge on theater critics. To do this, she dresses as a man: puts on a wig, sunglasses and a false mustache.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dog_Day_Afternoon" title="Dog Day Afternoon">Dog Day Afternoon</a></i> (1975) – Sonny robs a bank to finance his wife Leon's sex change operation. Chris Sarandon plays Leon.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Tenant" title="The Tenant">The Tenant</a></i> (1976) – The main character suffers from a <a href="/wiki/Dissociative_identity_disorder" title="Dissociative identity disorder">split personality</a>.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Strange_Role" title="A Strange Role">A Strange Role</a></i> (1976) – The Hungarian revolutionary is forced to hide from the persecutors, changing into a woman's dress in the sanatorium Hercules Waters.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Yentl_(film)" title="Yentl (film)">Yentl</a></i> (1983) – <a href="/wiki/Barbra_Streisand" title="Barbra Streisand">Barbra Streisand</a> plays a Polish Jewish woman who disguises herself as a man so she can study the Talmud in early 20th-century Europe.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gardes-Marines,_Ahead!" class="mw-redirect" title="Gardes-Marines, Ahead!">Gardes-Marines, Ahead!</a></i> (1988) – <a href="/wiki/Dmitry_Kharatyan" title="Dmitry Kharatyan">Dmitry Kharatyan</a> plays a Gardes-Marine Aleksei Korsak who disguises himself as a girl.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Last_Exit_to_Brooklyn_(film)" title="Last Exit to Brooklyn (film)">Last Exit to Brooklyn</a></i> (1989) <a href="/wiki/Alexis_Arquette" title="Alexis Arquette">Alexis Arquette</a> plays <i>Georgette</i>, a transvestite, thrown out of the family home who falls in love with a local criminal.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Silence_of_the_Lambs_(film)" title="The Silence of the Lambs (film)">The Silence of the Lambs</a></i> (1991) – <a href="/wiki/Ted_Levine" title="Ted Levine">Ted Levine</a> plays serial killer Jame Gumb, better known as <a href="/wiki/Buffalo_Bill_(character)" class="mw-redirect" title="Buffalo Bill (character)">Buffalo Bill</a> who makes the skins of his female victims into a woman suit for him to wear.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pret-A-Porter" class="mw-redirect" title="Pret-A-Porter">Pret-A-Porter</a></i> - <a href="/wiki/Danny_Aiello" title="Danny Aiello">Danny Aiello</a>'s character is revealed to be a cross-dresser towards the end of the film, wearing a Chanel suit which viewers had presumed was for his mistress.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Ballad_of_Little_Jo" title="The Ballad of Little Jo">The Ballad of Little Jo</a></i> (1993) – A lone woman in the <a href="/wiki/American_Old_West" class="mw-redirect" title="American Old West">Old West</a> takes on a male role in order to survive.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/M._Butterfly_(film)" title="M. Butterfly (film)">M. Butterfly</a></i> (1993) – a French diplomat (<a href="/wiki/Jeremy_Irons" title="Jeremy Irons">Jeremy Irons</a>) becomes infatuated with a <i><a href="/wiki/Dan_(Chinese_opera)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dan (Chinese opera)">dan</a></i> performer (<a href="/wiki/John_Lone" title="John Lone">John Lone</a>) in a Chinese opera, where all roles are performed by men.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Priscilla,_Queen_of_the_Desert" title="The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert">The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert</a></i> (1994) — a drag queen takes his act on the road.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_King_of_Masks" title="The King of Masks">The King of Masks</a></i> (1996) – A <a href="/wiki/Chinese_people" title="Chinese people">Chinese</a> girl poses as a boy in order to get adopted by an elderly man.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Liang_Po_Po:_The_Movie" title="Liang Po Po: The Movie">Liang Po Po: The Movie</a></i> (1999) – <a href="/wiki/Jack_Neo" title="Jack Neo">Jack Neo</a> cross-dressed as an elderly woman.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Baran_(film)" title="Baran (film)">Baran</a></i> (2001) – An Iranian boy falls in love with a young <a href="/wiki/People_of_Afghanistan" class="mw-redirect" title="People of Afghanistan">Afghan</a> <a href="/wiki/Refugee" title="Refugee">refugee</a>, who must dress as a boy to keep her job at a construction site.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Osama_(film)" title="Osama (film)">Osama</a></i> (2003) – A 12-year-old Afghan girl dresses like a boy in order to get a job during the regime of the <a href="/wiki/Taliban" title="Taliban">Taliban</a>.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Heart_is_Deceitful_Above_All_Things" class="mw-redirect" title="The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things">The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things</a></i> (2004) – While on the run, Sarah disguises her son, Jeremiah, as a girl and passes him off as her "sister" until he is raped by her current boyfriend and is found out. (Note: In the film adaption, Jeremiah is played by both <a href="/wiki/Cole_and_Dylan_Sprouse" class="mw-redirect" title="Cole and Dylan Sprouse">Cole and Dylan Sprouse</a> in different scenes, both of whom have had several other roles that involved cross-dressing.)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Peacock_(2010_film)" title="Peacock (2010 film)">Peacock</a></i> (2010) – <a href="/wiki/Cillian_Murphy" title="Cillian Murphy">Cillian Murphy</a> plays John Skillpa, a man who as a result of severe child abuse has formed the alternate personality of Emma Skillpa and dresses as a woman to become Emma.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Albert_Nobbs" title="Albert Nobbs">Albert Nobbs</a></i> (2011) – <a href="/wiki/Glenn_Close" title="Glenn Close">Glenn Close</a> plays a 19th-century Irish woman who poses as a man to work as a butler in Dublin's most elegant hotel.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables_(2012_film)" title="Les Misérables (2012 film)">Les Misérables</a></i> (2012) – <a href="/wiki/%C3%89ponine" title="Éponine">Éponine</a> changes her clothes from feminine to masculine in order to join the <a href="/wiki/June_Rebellion" title="June Rebellion">June Rebellion</a>.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Boxtrolls" title="The Boxtrolls">The Boxtrolls</a></i> (2014) – Archibald Snatcher is disguised as Madame Frou-Frou.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rudhramadevi_(film)" title="Rudhramadevi (film)">Rudhramadevi</a></i> (2015) – A young princess is disguised as a boy to keep the succession of her royal family line intact.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Teen_Titans_Go!_To_the_Movies" title="Teen Titans Go! To the Movies">Teen Titans Go! To the Movies</a></i> (2018) – Slade is disguised as a female <a href="/wiki/Film_director" title="Film director">film director</a> named Jade Wilson.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jump,_Darling" title="Jump, Darling">Jump, Darling</a></i> (2020) - Russell (Thomas Duplessie) tries to build a name for himself as a drag performer after being forced to move from <a href="/wiki/Toronto" title="Toronto">Toronto</a> back to his hometown in <a href="/wiki/Prince_Edward_County,_Ontario" title="Prince Edward County, Ontario">Prince Edward County</a>.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Solo_(2023_film)" title="Solo (2023 film)">Solo</a></i> (2023) - A doomed romance between drag performers Simon (<a href="/wiki/Th%C3%A9odore_Pellerin" title="Théodore Pellerin">Théodore Pellerin</a>) and Olivier (<a href="/wiki/F%C3%A9lix_Maritaud" title="Félix Maritaud">Félix Maritaud</a>).</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="As_a_minor_plot_element">As a minor plot element</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cross-dressing_in_film_and_television&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: As a minor plot element"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Many other comedy films include instances of humorous cross-dressing, but do not feature it as a central plot element. Movies in which cross-dressing plays a minor but important role include: </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Comic_Costume_Race" title="Comic Costume Race">Comic Costume Race</a></i> (1896) – Men compete in running, wearing women's clothes.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Four_Horsemen_of_the_Apocalypse_(1921_film)" title="The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921 film)">The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse</a></i> (1921) – During a drunken feast in an occupied castle, some German officers start dancing while wearing women's dresses. Of the scene, <a href="/wiki/June_Mathis" title="June Mathis">June Mathis</a> would later tell the <i><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Times" title="Los Angeles Times">Los Angeles Times</a></i>, "I had the German officers coming down the stairs with women's clothing on. To hundreds of people that meant no more than a masquerade party. To those who have lived and read, and who understand life, that scene stood out as one of the most terrific things in the picture."</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Entr%27acte_(film)" title="Entr'acte (film)">Entr'acte</a></i> (1924) – Inge Frïss poses as bearded ballerina.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Morocco_(1930_film)" class="mw-redirect" title="Morocco (1930 film)">Morocco</a></i> (1930) – <a href="/wiki/Marlene_Dietrich" title="Marlene Dietrich">Marlene Dietrich</a> wears a tuxedo.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes_(1932_film)" title="Sherlock Holmes (1932 film)">Sherlock Holmes</a></i> (1932) – <a href="/wiki/Clive_Brook" title="Clive Brook">Clive Brook</a> poses as a woman.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Babes_in_Toyland_(1934_film)" title="Babes in Toyland (1934 film)">Babes in Toyland</a></i> (1934) – <a href="/wiki/Stan_Laurel" title="Stan Laurel">Stan Laurel</a> poses as a bride.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Scarlet_Pimpernel_(1934_film)" title="The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934 film)">The Scarlet Pimpernel</a></i> (1934) – <a href="/wiki/Leslie_Howard" title="Leslie Howard">Leslie Howard</a> poses as a woman.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Bold_Caballero" title="The Bold Caballero">The Bold Caballero</a></i> (1936) – <a href="/wiki/Robert_Livingston_(actor)" title="Robert Livingston (actor)">Robert Livingston</a> poses as a woman.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Professor_Beware" title="Professor Beware">Professor Beware</a></i> (1938) – <a href="/wiki/Harold_Lloyd" title="Harold Lloyd">Harold Lloyd</a> poses as a woman.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Kentucky_Moonshine" title="Kentucky Moonshine">Kentucky Moonshine</a></i> (1938) – At the end of the radio show, the <a href="/wiki/Ritz_Brothers" title="Ritz Brothers">Ritz Brothers</a> dance in women's dresses.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tower_of_London_(1939_film)" title="Tower of London (1939 film)">Tower of London</a></i> (1939) – <a href="/wiki/Nan_Grey" title="Nan Grey">Nan Grey</a> poses as a chimney sweep.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Vasilisa_the_Beautiful_(1940_film)" title="Vasilisa the Beautiful (1940 film)">Vasilisa the Beautiful</a></i> (1940) – <a href="/wiki/Georgy_Millyar" title="Georgy Millyar">Georgy Millyar</a> plays an old witch <a href="/wiki/Baba_Yaga" title="Baba Yaga">Baba Yaga</a>. He reprised this role in the films <i><a href="/wiki/Jack_Frost_(1964_film)" title="Jack Frost (1964 film)">Jack Frost</a></i> (1964), <i><a href="/wiki/Fire,_Water,_and_Brass_Pipes" title="Fire, Water, and Brass Pipes">Fire, Water, and Brass Pipes</a></i> (1968), <i><a href="/wiki/The_Golden_Horns" title="The Golden Horns">The Golden Horns</a></i> (1973) and (<a href="/wiki/Cameo_appearance" title="Cameo appearance">cameo appearance</a>) <i><a href="/wiki/Finist,_the_Brave_Falcon" title="Finist, the Brave Falcon">Finist, the Brave Falcon</a></i> (1976). He also voiced the role of <a href="/wiki/Baba_Yaga" title="Baba Yaga">Baba Yaga</a> in the cartoon <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Frog_Princess_(1954_cartoon)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Frog Princess (1954 cartoon) (page does not exist)">The Frog Princess (1954 cartoon)</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A6%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0-%D0%BB%D1%8F%D0%B3%D1%83%D1%88%D0%BA%D0%B0_(%D0%BC%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%82%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BC,_1954)" class="extiw" title="ru:Царевна-лягушка (мультфильм, 1954)">ru</a>]</span></i> (1954).</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Honolulu_Lu" title="Honolulu Lu">Honolulu Lu</a></i> (1941) – <a href="/wiki/Lupe_V%C3%A9lez" title="Lupe Vélez">Lupe Vélez</a> dresses up as <a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a> in this wartime comedy.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/This_Is_the_Army" title="This Is the Army">This Is the Army</a></i> (1942) - Ronald Reagan stars as Lt Johnny Jones, the producer of an all US Army musical revue featuring a performance of soldiers in drag.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/National_Velvet_(film)" title="National Velvet (film)">National Velvet</a></i> (1944) – <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Taylor" title="Elizabeth Taylor">Elizabeth Taylor</a> as Velvet Brown, who disguises herself as a male jockey, and trains a horse for the Grand National steeplechase.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sunset_Boulevard_(film)" title="Sunset Boulevard (film)">Sunset Boulevard</a></i> (1950) – <a href="/wiki/Gloria_Swanson" title="Gloria Swanson">Gloria Swanson</a> dresses up as <a href="/wiki/Charlie_Chaplin" title="Charlie Chaplin">Charlie Chaplin</a>.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Houdini_(1953_film)" title="Houdini (1953 film)">Houdini</a></i> (1953) – <a href="/wiki/Janet_Leigh" title="Janet Leigh">Janet Leigh</a> dresses up as <a href="/wiki/Harry_Houdini" title="Harry Houdini">Harry Houdini</a>.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Calamity_Jane_(film)" class="mw-redirect" title="Calamity Jane (film)">Calamity Jane</a></i> (1953) – <a href="/wiki/Dick_Wesson_(actor)" title="Dick Wesson (actor)">Dick Wesson</a> poses as an actress.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Casanova%27s_Big_Night" title="Casanova's Big Night">Casanova's Big Night</a></i> (1954) – <a href="/wiki/Bob_Hope" title="Bob Hope">Bob Hope</a> appears in drag.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Belles_of_St._Trinian%27s" title="The Belles of St. Trinian's">The Belles of St. Trinian's</a></i> (1954) – <a href="/wiki/Alastair_Sim" title="Alastair Sim">Alastair Sim</a> plays twins, headmistress Millicent Fritton and her brother Clarence Fritton.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/White_Christmas_(film)" title="White Christmas (film)">White Christmas</a></i> (1954) - <a href="/wiki/Bing_Crosby" title="Bing Crosby">Bing Crosby</a> and <a href="/wiki/Danny_Kaye" title="Danny Kaye">Danny Kaye</a> take over from <a href="/wiki/Rosemary_Clooney" title="Rosemary Clooney">Rosemary Clooney</a> and <a href="/wiki/Vera-Ellen" title="Vera-Ellen">Vera-Ellen</a>'s performance of "Sisters" in order for them to make a getaway from an abusive landlord.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Abbott_and_Costello_Meet_the_Keystone_Kops" title="Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops">Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops</a></i> (1955) – <a href="/wiki/Lou_Costello" title="Lou Costello">Lou Costello</a> appears in drag.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Bridge_on_the_River_Kwai" title="The Bridge on the River Kwai">The Bridge on the River Kwai</a></i> (1957) - <a href="/wiki/Percy_Herbert_(actor)" title="Percy Herbert (actor)">Percy Herbert</a> and a group of British soldiers perform in drag during a morale event celebrating the completion of the bridge.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Man_of_a_Thousand_Faces_(film)" title="Man of a Thousand Faces (film)">Man of a Thousand Faces</a></i> (1957) – <a href="/wiki/James_Cagney" title="James Cagney">James Cagney</a> dresses as a woman for a few scenes.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/South_Pacific_(1958_film)" title="South Pacific (1958 film)">South Pacific</a></i> - <a href="/wiki/Mitzi_Gaynor" title="Mitzi Gaynor">Mitzi Gaynor</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ray_Walston" title="Ray Walston">Ray Walston</a> perform in drag during a show during a Thanksgiving morale event for the sailors stationed on a South Pacific island during World War II.</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Die_sch%C3%B6ne_L%C3%BCgnerin&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Die schöne Lügnerin (page does not exist)">Die schöne Lügnerin</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_sch%C3%B6ne_L%C3%BCgnerin" class="extiw" title="de:Die schöne Lügnerin">de</a>]</span></i> (1959) – Constanze Hübner (<a href="/wiki/Romy_Schneider" title="Romy Schneider">Romy Schneider</a>) sneaks into the ball dressed as a man. In another episode, a secret police agent dresses up in a woman's dress, posing as a flower seller.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Swiss_Family_Robinson_(1960_film)" title="Swiss Family Robinson (1960 film)">Swiss Family Robinson</a></i> (1960) – <a href="/wiki/Janet_Munro" title="Janet Munro">Janet Munro</a> dresses as a boy to appear less vulnerable to pirates.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Night_Before_Christmas_(1961_film)" title="The Night Before Christmas (1961 film)">The Night Before Christmas</a></i> (1961) – <a href="/wiki/Georgy_Millyar" title="Georgy Millyar">Georgy Millyar</a>, who played the Devil, also appears in a small role as a gossip girl.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Silence_(1963_film)" title="The Silence (1963 film)">The Silence</a></i> (1963) – Out of curiosity, Johan (<a href="/wiki/J%C3%B6rgen_Lindstr%C3%B6m" title="Jörgen Lindström">Jörgen Lindström</a>) enters the hotel room where the dwarf artists are staying. They jokingly dress the guest in a woman's dress.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Thunderball_(film)" title="Thunderball (film)">Thunderball</a></i> (1965) – A former enemy of <a href="/wiki/James_Bond_(literary_character)" title="James Bond (literary character)">James Bond</a> fakes his death and poses as his own widow in the prologue segment.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Producers_(1968_film)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Producers (1968 film)">The Producers</a></i> (1968) – <a href="/wiki/Roger_De_Bris" class="mw-redirect" title="Roger De Bris">Roger De Bris</a> (<a href="/wiki/Christopher_Hewett" title="Christopher Hewett">Christopher Hewett</a>) appears in a women's evening gown and <a href="/wiki/Tiara" title="Tiara">tiara</a>.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Head_(film)" title="Head (film)">Head</a></i> (1968) – <a href="/wiki/T._C._Jones" title="T. C. Jones">T. C. Jones</a> played the dual male/female roles of Mr. and Mrs. Ace.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Damned_(1969_film)" title="The Damned (1969 film)">The Damned</a></i> (1969) – Directed by <a href="/wiki/Luchino_Visconti" title="Luchino Visconti">Luchino Visconti</a>. Martin's (a character played by <a href="/wiki/Helmut_Berger" title="Helmut Berger">Helmut Berger</a>) <a href="/wiki/Drag_(clothing)" class="mw-redirect" title="Drag (clothing)">drag</a> performance as <a href="/wiki/Marlene_Dietrich" title="Marlene Dietrich">Marlene Dietrich</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Blue_Angel" title="The Blue Angel">The Blue Angel</a></i> at his grandfather's birthday celebration, notorious at the time of the film's release, has since become an iconic image in cinema history.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Attention,_Turtle!" title="Attention, Turtle!">Attention, Turtle!</a></i> (1970) – <a href="/wiki/Rolan_Bykov" title="Rolan Bykov">Rolan Bykov</a> plays Vova Didenko's grandmother.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Diamonds_Are_Forever_(film)" title="Diamonds Are Forever (film)">Diamonds Are Forever</a></i> (1971) – <a href="/wiki/James_Bond_(literary_character)" title="James Bond (literary character)">Bond</a>'s arch enemy <a href="/wiki/Ernst_Stavro_Blofeld" title="Ernst Stavro Blofeld">Ernst Stavro Blofeld</a> dresses up as a woman to escape from his Hotel hideout.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gentlemen_of_Fortune" title="Gentlemen of Fortune">Gentlemen of Fortune</a></i> (1972) – The Soviet criminal comedy; escaped prisoners dress up in women's clothing.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Freebie_and_the_Bean" title="Freebie and the Bean">Freebie and the Bean</a></i> (1973) – Mystery hit man turns out to be a convincing transvestite.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Three_Wishes_for_Cinderella_(1973_film)" title="Three Wishes for Cinderella (1973 film)">Three Wishes for Cinderella</a></i> (1973) – <a href="/wiki/Cinderella" title="Cinderella">Cinderella</a> (<a href="/wiki/Libu%C5%A1e_%C5%A0afr%C3%A1nkov%C3%A1" title="Libuše Šafránková">Libuše Šafránková</a>) uses a magical hazelnut to dress up as a young huntsman and join the Prince's hunting party.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Arabian_Nights_(1974_film)" title="Arabian Nights (1974 film)">Arabian Nights</a></i> (1974) – Zumurrud disguises as a man and comes to a far-away kingdom where she becomes king.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Thunderbolt_and_Lightfoot" title="Thunderbolt and Lightfoot">Thunderbolt and Lightfoot</a></i> (1974) – <a href="/wiki/Jeff_Bridges" title="Jeff Bridges">Jeff Bridges</a> cross-dresses to distract bank guards in a robbery.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Fantozzi_(film)" title="Fantozzi (film)">Fantozzi</a></i> (1975) – Adult actor <a href="/w/index.php?title=Plinio_Fernando&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Plinio Fernando (page does not exist)">Plinio Fernando</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plinio_Fernando" class="extiw" title="it:Plinio Fernando">it</a>]</span> plays Mariangela, Fantozzi's daughter. Also in some sequels.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sal%C3%B2,_or_the_120_Days_of_Sodom" title="Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom">Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom</a></i> (1975) – The four masters dress in women's clothes and coerce their male victims, clothed in wedding dresses, into <a href="/wiki/Same-sex_marriage" title="Same-sex marriage">same-sex marriage</a>.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Incorrigible_(1975_film)" title="Incorrigible (1975 film)">Incorrigible</a></i> (1975) – Victor Vauthier (<a href="/wiki/Jean-Paul_Belmondo" title="Jean-Paul Belmondo">Jean-Paul Belmondo</a>) dresses up as a transvestite to expose his client's cheating husband, but is arrested by the police during a raid.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/La_Course_%C3%A0_l%27%C3%A9chalote" title="La Course à l'échalote">La Course à l'échalote</a></i> (1975) – Pierre Vidal (<a href="/wiki/Pierre_Richard" title="Pierre Richard">Pierre Richard</a>) is pursuing a thief who disguised himself as a woman and stole a document from a safe deposit box. A thief performs in a theatrical show as a drag queen.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gable_and_Lombard" title="Gable and Lombard">Gable and Lombard</a></i> (1976) – <a href="/wiki/Carole_Lombard" title="Carole Lombard">Carole Lombard</a> (<a href="/wiki/Jill_Clayburgh" title="Jill Clayburgh">Jill Clayburgh</a>) disguises herself as an extra to see <a href="/wiki/Clark_Gable" title="Clark Gable">Clark Gable</a> (<a href="/wiki/James_Brolin" title="James Brolin">James Brolin</a>) act.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Wing_or_the_Thigh" title="The Wing or the Thigh">The Wing or the Thigh</a></i> (1976) – Taster Charles Duchemin (<a href="/wiki/Louis_de_Fun%C3%A8s" title="Louis de Funès">Louis de Funès</a>) disguises himself in a woman's dress to avoid being recognized by the owners of the restaurant.</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hello,_river!&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hello, river! (page does not exist)">Hello, river!</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D1%83%D0%B9,_%D1%80%D1%96%D1%87%D0%BA%D0%BE" class="extiw" title="uk:Здрастуй, річко">uk</a>]</span></i> (1979) – A girl named Natasha, nicknamed "Bullet" (Katya Sychyova), pretends to be a boy in order to save the river together with other boys.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Apple_Dumpling_Gang_Rides_Again" title="The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again">The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again</a></i> (1979) – Amos (<a href="/wiki/Tim_Conway" title="Tim Conway">Tim Conway</a>) and Theodore (<a href="/wiki/Don_Knotts" title="Don Knotts">Don Knotts</a>) disguise themselves as bar-room dance girls to hide themselves from the gang of "Big Mac" (<a href="/wiki/Jack_Elam" title="Jack Elam">Jack Elam</a>).</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Monty_Python%27s_Life_of_Brian" title="Monty Python's Life of Brian">Monty Python's Life of Brian</a></i> (1979) – Several "women" (actually portrayed by the all-male Python ensemble) disguise themselves as men in order to attend a stoning.</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gift_of_Fate&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gift of Fate (page does not exist)">Gift of Fate</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%BA_%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%96" class="extiw" title="uk:Подарунок долі">uk</a>]</span></i> (1977) – Zoya (<a href="/w/index.php?title=Natalya_Chenchik&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Natalya Chenchik (page does not exist)">Natalya Chenchik</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%87%D0%B8%D0%BA,_%D0%9D%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F_%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0" class="extiw" title="ru:Ченчик, Наталья Петровна">ru</a>]</span>) plays the role of Khlestakov in an amateur performance based on the <a href="/wiki/Nikolai_Gogol" title="Nikolai Gogol">Nikolai Gogol</a>'s play <i><a href="/wiki/The_Government_Inspector" title="The Government Inspector">The Government Inspector</a></i>.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dragonslayer_(1981_film)" title="Dragonslayer (1981 film)">Dragonslayer</a></i> (1981) – <a href="/wiki/Caitlin_Clarke" title="Caitlin Clarke">Caitlin Clarke</a> plays a young woman whose father disguised her as a boy from birth in order to protect her from an annual lottery in which young women are selected to be fed to the dragon.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Family_Relations" title="Family Relations">Family Relations</a></i> (1981) – Young actor <a href="/w/index.php?title=Fedor_Stukov&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Fedor Stukov (page does not exist)">Fedor Stukov</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%82%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2,_%D0%A4%D1%91%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%80_%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87" class="extiw" title="ru:Стуков, Фёдор Викторович">ru</a>]</span> plays Irishka, Nina's daughter.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Das_Boot" title="Das Boot">Das Boot</a></i> (1981) - One of the crew performs in drag during a lighthearted moment as they let off some steam to ease the bordom of weeks on picket duty.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Nighthawks_(1981_film)" title="Nighthawks (1981 film)">Nighthawks</a></i> (1981) – Wulfgar (<a href="/wiki/Rutger_Hauer" title="Rutger Hauer">Rutger Hauer</a>) sets out to kill Irene DaSilva (<a href="/wiki/Lindsay_Wagner" title="Lindsay Wagner">Lindsay Wagner</a>), unaware that it is Sgt. Dick DaSilva (<a href="/wiki/Sylvester_Stallone" title="Sylvester Stallone">Sylvester Stallone</a>), who has donned women's clothing and a wig.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Santa_Claus_Is_a_Stinker" class="mw-redirect" title="Santa Claus Is a Stinker">Santa Claus Is a Stinker</a></i> (1982) – <a href="/wiki/Christian_Clavier" title="Christian Clavier">Christian Clavier</a> plays a transvestite named Katia.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Deathstalker_(1983_film)" title="Deathstalker (1983 film)">Deathstalker</a></i> (1983) – The sorcerer Munkar, turns his henchman Gargit into the image of Princess Codille (<a href="/wiki/Barbi_Benton" title="Barbi Benton">Barbi Benton</a>), in order to seduce the hero Deathstalker.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Yellowbeard" title="Yellowbeard">Yellowbeard</a></i> (1983) – Captain Hughes sneaks a woman on board ship by having her dress as a man.</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spokoystvie_otmenyaetsya&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Spokoystvie otmenyaetsya (page does not exist)">Spokoystvie otmenyaetsya</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%96%D0%B9_%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%83%D1%94%D1%82%D1%8C%D1%81%D1%8F" class="extiw" title="uk:Спокій скасовується">uk</a>]</span></i> (1983) – Demobilized sergeant Nikolai Gorovoy (<a href="/w/index.php?title=Ivan_Shabaltas&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ivan Shabaltas (page does not exist)">Ivan Shabaltas</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%81,_%D0%98%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87" class="extiw" title="ru:Шабалтас, Иван Михайлович">ru</a>]</span>) dresses up in a woman's gypsy outfit to deceive his father.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Le_Marginal" title="Le Marginal">Le Marginal</a></i> (1983) – <a href="/wiki/Jean-Claude_Dreyfus" title="Jean-Claude Dreyfus">Jean-Claude Dreyfus</a> plays the role of a transvestite.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Angel_(1984_film)" title="Angel (1984 film)">Angel</a></i> (1984) – Dick Shawn plays street-smart transvestite, who is like a den-mother to the main character, child prostitute, Angel.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ronia,_the_Robber%27s_Daughter_(film)" title="Ronia, the Robber's Daughter (film)">Ronia, the Robber's Daughter</a></i> (1984) – A robber dresses as a female to con other robbers.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mary_Poppins,_Goodbye" title="Mary Poppins, Goodbye">Mary Poppins, Goodbye</a></i> (1984) – <a href="/wiki/Oleg_Tabakov" title="Oleg Tabakov">Oleg Tabakov</a> plays Miss Euphemia Andrew.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Cannonball_Run_II" title="Cannonball Run II">Cannonball Run II</a></i> (1984) – J.J. McClure (<a href="/wiki/Burt_Reynolds" title="Burt Reynolds">Burt Reynolds</a>), Victor Prinzi (<a href="/wiki/Dom_DeLuise" title="Dom DeLuise">Dom DeLuise</a>), and Morris Fenderbaum (<a href="/wiki/Sammy_Davis_Jr." title="Sammy Davis Jr.">Sammy Davis Jr.</a>) dress up as <a href="/wiki/Belly_dance" title="Belly dance">belly dancers</a>.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pee-wee%27s_Big_Adventure" title="Pee-wee's Big Adventure">Pee-wee's Big Adventure</a></i> (1985) – To disguise themselves from the police, <a href="/wiki/Pee-wee_Herman" title="Pee-wee Herman">Pee-wee Herman</a> and an escaped convict dress as husband and wife, with Pee-wee as the wife.</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Kings_of_Gag&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Kings of Gag (page does not exist)">The Kings of Gag</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Rois_du_gag" class="extiw" title="fr:Les Rois du gag">fr</a>]</span></i> (1985) – <a href="/wiki/Michel_Serrault" title="Michel Serrault">Michel Serrault</a> plays the role of popular TV comedian Gaëtan, famous among other things for his comedic female roles. <a href="/wiki/Coluche" title="Coluche">Coluche</a> also plays the role of Georges Khorseri, who appears in women's clothing.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Castle_in_the_Sky" title="Castle in the Sky">Castle in the Sky</a></i> (1986) – Pazu disguises Princess Sheeta as a boy in attempt to escape from the air pirates.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Armed_and_Dangerous_(1986_film)" title="Armed and Dangerous (1986 film)">Armed and Dangerous</a></i> (1986) – Frank Dooley (<a href="/wiki/John_Candy" title="John Candy">John Candy</a>) dresses as a <a href="/wiki/Divine_(performer)" title="Divine (performer)">Divine</a>-type drag queen to track down criminals.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Betty_Blue" title="Betty Blue">Betty Blue</a></i> (1986) – Zorg dresses (and passes) as a woman ("Josephine") in two crucial scenes.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Les_Fugitifs" title="Les Fugitifs">Les Fugitifs</a></i> (1986) – Jean Lucas (<a href="/wiki/G%C3%A9rard_Depardieu" title="Gérard Depardieu">Gérard Depardieu</a>), François Pignon (<a href="/wiki/Pierre_Richard" title="Pierre Richard">Pierre Richard</a>) and his daughter Jeanne (<a href="/w/index.php?title=Ana%C3%AFs_Bret&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Anaïs Bret (page does not exist)">Anaïs Bret</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana%C3%AFs_Bret" class="extiw" title="de:Anaïs Bret">de</a>]</span>) dress up and pretend to be the vacationing family: Jean being the father, François the mother, and Jeanne, after Jean giving her a haircut, as their son, Jean-Claude.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Outrageous_Fortune_(film)" title="Outrageous Fortune (film)">Outrageous Fortune</a></i> (1987) – <a href="/wiki/Bette_Midler" title="Bette Midler">Bette Midler</a> and <a href="/wiki/Shelley_Long" title="Shelley Long">Shelley Long</a> disguise themselves as pre-pubescent boys to gain entry into a remote <a href="/wiki/Brothel" title="Brothel">brothel</a> in <a href="/wiki/New_Mexico" title="New Mexico">New Mexico</a>.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Willow_(1988_film)" title="Willow (1988 film)">Willow</a></i> (1988) – Madmartigan (portrayed by <a href="/wiki/Val_Kilmer" title="Val Kilmer">Val Kilmer</a>) disguises himself (unsuccessfully) as a woman to hide an apparent infidelity from a jealous husband.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hairspray_(1988_film)" title="Hairspray (1988 film)">Hairspray</a></i> (1988) – While not exactly a plot element, the role of Edna Turnblad has always been played by a man in drag, and was indeed written with that intention, most recently portrayed by <a href="/wiki/John_Travolta" title="John Travolta">John Travolta</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Hairspray_(2007_film)" title="Hairspray (2007 film)">2007 remake</a>.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Island_of_Rusty_General" title="Island of Rusty General">Island of Rusty General</a></i> (1988) – <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Lenkov" title="Alexander Lenkov">Alexander Lenkov</a> plays the role of the robot <a href="/wiki/Baba_Yaga" title="Baba Yaga">Baba Yaga</a>.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tango_%26_Cash" title="Tango & Cash">Tango & Cash</a></i> (1989) – Gabriel Cash (<a href="/wiki/Kurt_Russell" title="Kurt Russell">Kurt Russell</a>) cross-dresses to escape from the police.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Three_Fugitives" title="Three Fugitives">Three Fugitives</a></i> (1989) – Daniel James Lucas (<a href="/wiki/Nick_Nolte" title="Nick Nolte">Nick Nolte</a>), Ned Perry (<a href="/wiki/Martin_Short" title="Martin Short">Martin Short</a>) and his daughter Megan (Sarah Doroff) dress up and pretend to be the vacationing family: Daniel being the father, Ned Perry the mother, and Megan, after Daniel giving her a haircut, as their son.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Total_Recall_(1990_film)" title="Total Recall (1990 film)">Total Recall</a></i> (1990) – <a href="/wiki/Arnold_Schwarzenegger" title="Arnold Schwarzenegger">Arnold Schwarzenegger</a> disguises himself as a lady in an attempt to avoid <a href="/wiki/Michael_Ironside" title="Michael Ironside">Michael Ironside</a>, who wants to capture him on his return to Mars.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sleeping_with_the_Enemy_(1991_film)" class="mw-redirect" title="Sleeping with the Enemy (1991 film)">Sleeping with the Enemy</a></i> (1991) – <a href="/wiki/Julia_Roberts" title="Julia Roberts">Julia Roberts</a>'s character disguises herself as a young man in order to visit her elderly mother and avoid her possessive husband.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Robin_Hood_(1991_British_film)" title="Robin Hood (1991 British film)">Robin Hood</a></i> (1991) – <a href="/wiki/Uma_Thurman" title="Uma Thurman">Uma Thurman</a>'s character Marion disguises as Martin to join the band of Robin Hood.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hook_(film)" title="Hook (film)">Hook</a></i> (1991) – <a href="/wiki/Glenn_Close" title="Glenn Close">Glenn Close</a> plays a pirate who is part of <a href="/wiki/Captain_Hook" title="Captain Hook">Captain Hook</a>'s crew.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Nothing_but_Trouble_(1991_film)" title="Nothing but Trouble (1991 film)">Nothing but Trouble</a></i> (1991) – <a href="/wiki/John_Candy" title="John Candy">John Candy</a> plays twins, brother Dennis Valkenheiser and sister Eldona Valkenheiser.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Good_Luck,_Gentlemen" title="Good Luck, Gentlemen">Good Luck, Gentlemen</a></i> (1992) – Former Soviet officers, dressed in women's dresses, take part in a beauty contest.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Weather_Is_Good_on_Deribasovskaya,_It_Rains_Again_on_Brighton_Beach" title="Weather Is Good on Deribasovskaya, It Rains Again on Brighton Beach">Weather Is Good on Deribasovskaya, It Rains Again on Brighton Beach</a></i> (1992) – KGB agent Fyodor Sokolov (<a href="/wiki/Dmitry_Kharatyan" title="Dmitry Kharatyan">Dmitry Kharatyan</a>) dresses up as a prostitute to catch a maniac.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Huck_Finn_(1993_film)" title="The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993 film)">The Adventures of Huck Finn</a></i> (1993) – <a href="/wiki/Huckleberry_Finn" title="Huckleberry Finn">Huckleberry Finn</a> (<a href="/wiki/Elijah_Wood" title="Elijah Wood">Elijah Wood</a>) disguises himself as a girl under the name Sarah-Mary Williams to steal things in a woman's house.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Robin_Hood:_Men_in_Tights" title="Robin Hood: Men in Tights">Robin Hood: Men in Tights</a></i> (1993) – <a href="/wiki/Little_John" title="Little John">Little John</a>, Ahchoo, <a href="/wiki/Will_Scarlet" title="Will Scarlet">Will Scarlet O'Hara</a> and Blinkin disguise themselves as women to go see the archery contest that Robin of Loxley is competing in.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mr._Nanny" title="Mr. Nanny">Mr. Nanny</a></i> (1993) – <a href="/wiki/Hulk_Hogan" title="Hulk Hogan">Hulk Hogan</a>'s Sean Armstrong puts on the outfit of a ballerina.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Fatal_Instinct" title="Fatal Instinct">Fatal Instinct</a></i> (1993) - <a href="/wiki/Armand_Assante" title="Armand Assante">Armand Assante</a>'s Ned Ravine dances in a pair of red stilettos to the tune of "<a href="/wiki/Brown_Eyed_Girl" title="Brown Eyed Girl">Brown Eyed Girl</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Van_Morrison" title="Van Morrison">Van Morrison</a>.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Junior_(1994_film)" title="Junior (1994 film)">Junior</a></i> (1994) – <a href="/wiki/Arnold_Schwarzenegger" title="Arnold Schwarzenegger">Arnold Schwarzenegger</a> disguises himself to hide in a <a href="/wiki/Women%27s_shelter" title="Women's shelter">women's shelter</a> during the last few months of an experimental male pregnancy.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Captain_Pronin" title="Captain Pronin">Captain Pronin 4: Captain Pronin at the Opera</a></i> (1994) – Captain Pronin puts on the outfit of a ballerina.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sailor_Uranus" title="Sailor Uranus">Haruka Tenou</a> is a lesbian girl who regularly cross-dresses as a boy due to her romantic relationship with <a href="/wiki/Sailor_Neptune" title="Sailor Neptune">Michiru Kaiou</a> in a series of <i>Sailor Moon</i> films: <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Sailor_Moon_S:_The_Movie" title="Sailor Moon S: The Movie">Sailor Moon S: The Movie</a></i> (1994)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sailor_Moon_SuperS:_The_Movie" title="Sailor Moon SuperS: The Movie">Sailor Moon SuperS: The Movie</a></i> (1995)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sailor_Moon_Eternal" title="Sailor Moon Eternal">Sailor Moon Eternal</a></i> (2021)</li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Brady_Bunch_Movie" title="The Brady Bunch Movie">The Brady Bunch Movie</a></i> (1995) – <a href="/wiki/RuPaul" title="RuPaul">RuPaul Charles</a> appears in drag as high school guidance counselor named Mrs. Cummings.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Shirli-myrli" title="Shirli-myrli">Shirli-myrli</a></i> (1995) – Vasily Krolikov (<a href="/wiki/Valery_Garkalin" title="Valery Garkalin">Valery Garkalin</a>) changes into a woman's dress, hiding from his pursuers.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Kids_in_the_Hall:_Brain_Candy" title="Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy">Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy</a></i> (1996) – Several female characters played by <a href="/wiki/The_Kids_in_the_Hall" title="The Kids in the Hall">The Kids in the Hall</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Canadians" title="Canadians">Canadian</a> comedy troupe.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Con_Air" title="Con Air">Con Air</a></i> (1997) – <a href="/wiki/Renoly_Santiago" title="Renoly Santiago">Renoly Santiago</a> appears as Ramon 'Sally-Can't Dance' Martinez – an <a href="/wiki/Effeminacy" title="Effeminacy">effeminate</a>, transvestite inmate who appears sexually subservient to his fellow detainees.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Fifth_Element" title="The Fifth Element">The Fifth Element</a></i> (1997) – <a href="/wiki/Chris_Tucker" title="Chris Tucker">Chris Tucker</a> appears as Ruby Rhod, a "<a href="/wiki/RuPaul" title="RuPaul">RuPaul</a>/<a href="/wiki/Dennis_Rodman" title="Dennis Rodman">Dennis Rodman</a>"-inspired media sensation who tags along with Korben Dallas on his mission to save the earth.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Waterboy" title="The Waterboy">The Waterboy</a></i> (1998) - In a black & white dream sequence, <a href="/wiki/Henry_Winkler" title="Henry Winkler">Henry Winkler</a>'s Coach Klein who is on the phone with his grandmother can be briefly seen in a pair of heels as he stomps in them three times by shouting "I just hate him, I hate him, I hate him!".</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Between_Your_Legs" title="Between Your Legs">Between Your Legs</a></i> (1999) – Victor Rueda passes as a woman in this Spanish drama.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Wild_Wild_West" title="Wild Wild West">Wild Wild West</a></i> (1999) – U.S. Marshal Artemus Gordon (<a href="/wiki/Kevin_Kline" title="Kevin Kline">Kevin Kline</a>) disguises himself as a prostitute. Jim West (<a href="/wiki/Will_Smith" title="Will Smith">Will Smith</a>) also appears as a belly dancer to rescue U.S. Marshal Artemus Gordon from antagonist Arliss Loveless (<a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Branagh" title="Kenneth Branagh">Kenneth Branagh</a>).</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Boondock_Saints" title="The Boondock Saints">The Boondock Saints</a></i> (1999) – FBI Agent Paul Smecker (<a href="/wiki/Willem_Dafoe" title="Willem Dafoe">Willem Dafoe</a>) disguises himself as a prostitute in order to infiltrate the Yakavetta headquarters.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/100_Girls" title="100 Girls">100 Girls</a></i> (2000) – <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Tucker" title="Jonathan Tucker">Jonathan Tucker</a>'s character Matthew dresses in drag.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Last_of_the_Blonde_Bombshells" title="The Last of the Blonde Bombshells">The Last of the Blonde Bombshells</a></i> (2000) – <a href="/wiki/Ian_Holm" title="Ian Holm">Ian Holm</a> plays Patrick, who attempted to avoid enlistment during World War II by dressing as a woman.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Wonder_Boys_(film)" title="Wonder Boys (film)">Wonder Boys</a></i> (2000) – Michael Cavadias's character Tony/Antonia is a part-time transvestite.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sweet_November_(2001_film)" title="Sweet November (2001 film)">Sweet November</a></i> (2001) – Sara's two confidantes, Chaz and Brandon, are gay transvestites.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lilo_%26_Stitch" title="Lilo & Stitch">Lilo & Stitch</a></i> (2002) – Pleakley, a male alien who formerly served as an agent of the Galactic Federation, disguises himself as a woman when visiting Earth with his partner Dr. Jumba Jookiba.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Boat_Trip_(film)" title="Boat Trip (film)">Boat Trip</a></i> (2002) – Two straight men (<a href="/wiki/Cuba_Gooding_Jr." title="Cuba Gooding Jr.">Cuba Gooding Jr.</a> and <a href="/wiki/Horatio_Sanz" title="Horatio Sanz">Horatio Sanz</a>) mistakenly end up on gay cruise together and encounter the flamboyantly gay Hector (<a href="/wiki/Maurice_Godin_(actor)" title="Maurice Godin (actor)">Maurice Godin</a>) who introduces himself in drag as well as Tom (<a href="/wiki/Ken_Campbell" title="Ken Campbell">Ken Campbell</a>) who cross-dresses regularly. There are also other instances of drag throughout the film.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Mudge_Boy" title="The Mudge Boy">The Mudge Boy</a></i> (2003) – Duncan Mudge (Emile Hirsch) wears his deceased mother's <a href="/wiki/Wedding_dress" title="Wedding dress">wedding dress</a>.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pirates_of_the_Caribbean:_The_Curse_of_the_Black_Pearl" title="Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl">Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl</a></i> (2003) – <a href="/wiki/Pintel_and_Ragetti" class="mw-redirect" title="Pintel and Ragetti">Pintel and Ragetti</a> disguise themselves as women while <a href="/wiki/Hector_Barbossa" title="Hector Barbossa">Hector Barbossa</a>'s skeleton crewmen attack the British ship, HMS <i>Dauntless</i>.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Camp_(2003_film)" title="Camp (2003 film)">Camp</a></i> (2003) – One of the main characters, Michael, gets beaten up for wearing a dress, fishnet stockings, and high heels to his high school prom. Later on in the film, in his birthday party at camp, all his friends dress in drag as part of the celebration. Because of this, the camp director is on a crusade to be more like a normal summer camp.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings:_The_Return_of_the_King" title="The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King">The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King</a></i> (2003) – <a href="/wiki/%C3%89owyn" title="Éowyn">Éowyn</a> dresses as a soldier to be allowed to fight with the men.</li> <li><i>L'île de Black Mor</i> (<i>The Island of Black Mor</i>) (2004) – In <a href="/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Laguionie" title="Jean-François Laguionie">Jean-François Laguionie</a>'s motion picture, Petit Moine (Little Monk), captured by the pirates in a monastery, reveals to be a girl disguised as a boy, which leads to many arguments, since women on board are forbidden by pirate law.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rent_(film)" title="Rent (film)">Rent</a></i> (2005) – One of the main characters, Angel, is a drag queen.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Robots_(2005_film)" title="Robots (2005 film)">Robots</a></i> (2005) – Fender (voiced by <a href="/wiki/Robin_Williams" title="Robin Williams">Robin Williams</a>) slowly unleashes his cross-dressing tendencies.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Producers_(2005_film)" title="The Producers (2005 film)">The Producers</a></i> (2005) – The gay director, <a href="/wiki/Roger_De_Bris" class="mw-redirect" title="Roger De Bris">Roger De Bris</a>, wears a dress when he is supposed to be <a href="/wiki/Grand_Duchess_Anastasia_Nikolaevna_of_Russia" title="Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia">Grand Duchess Anastasia</a>.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Offside_(2006_Iranian_film)" title="Offside (2006 Iranian film)">Offside</a></i> (2006) – An Iranian girl disguises herself as a boy to go attend the 2006 World Cup qualifying match between Iran and Bahrain.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pirates_of_the_Caribbean:_Dead_Man%27s_Chest" title="Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest">Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest</a></i> (2006) – <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Swann" title="Elizabeth Swann">Elizabeth Swann</a> disguises herself as a man aboard the merchant vessel <i>Edinburgh Trader</i> and convinces the crew to sail for Tortuga. <a href="/wiki/Jack_Sparrow" title="Jack Sparrow">Jack Sparrow</a> mistakes Elizabeth for a "lad" trying to join his crew aboard the <i><a href="/wiki/Black_Pearl" title="Black Pearl">Black Pearl</a></i>.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Stardust_(2007_film)" title="Stardust (2007 film)">Stardust</a></i> (2007) – Captain Shakespeare is a <a href="/wiki/Closeted" title="Closeted">closeted</a> cross-dresser.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Moli%C3%A8re_(2007_film)" title="Molière (2007 film)">Molière</a></i> (2007) – Monsieur Jourdain (<a href="/wiki/Fabrice_Luchini" title="Fabrice Luchini">Fabrice Luchini</a>) secretly enters a high society salon in a woman's dress.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Gamers:_Dorkness_Rising" title="The Gamers: Dorkness Rising">The Gamers: Dorkness Rising</a></i> (2008) – Director Matt Vancil is a male gamer rather unsuccessfully plays a female character.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rage_(2009_American_film)" title="Rage (2009 American film)">Rage</a></i> (2009) – <a href="/wiki/Jude_Law" title="Jude Law">Jude Law</a> plays Minx, a transvestite supermodel.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/District_13:_Ultimatum" title="District 13: Ultimatum">District 13: Ultimatum</a></i> (2009) – While undercover, Damien Tomaso (<a href="/wiki/Cyril_Raffaelli" title="Cyril Raffaelli">Cyril Raffaelli</a>) dresses up as a girl to infiltrate the lair of mafia boss Monsieur Wu.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Disappearance_of_Haruhi_Suzumiya" title="The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya">The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya</a></i> (2010) - During the alternate universe sequence, Haruhi, who in this universe is a Kouyouen student, wears Kyon's tracksuit when disguising herself as a North High student.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Denizen_(2010_film)" class="mw-redirect" title="Denizen (2010 film)">Denizen</a></i> (2010) – The lead character (<a href="/wiki/J.A._Steel" title="J.A. Steel">J.A. Steel</a>) is a lesbian with a cross-dressing father, who is a general in the US Army.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pirates_of_the_Caribbean:_On_Stranger_Tides" title="Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides">Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides</a></i> (2011) – <a href="/wiki/Angelica_(Pirates_of_the_Caribbean)" class="mw-redirect" title="Angelica (Pirates of the Caribbean)">Angelica</a> disguises herself as <a href="/wiki/Jack_Sparrow" title="Jack Sparrow">Jack Sparrow</a> in order to recruit a crew members as volunteers hoping to sail with Sparrow, eventually having Sparrow himself <a href="/wiki/Shanghaiing" title="Shanghaiing">shang-hai'ed</a> aboard <a href="/wiki/Blackbeard_(Pirates_of_the_Caribbean)" class="mw-redirect" title="Blackbeard (Pirates of the Caribbean)">Blackbeard</a>'s ship, <i><a href="/wiki/Queen_Anne%27s_Revenge" title="Queen Anne's Revenge">Queen Anne's Revenge</a></i>.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/J._Edgar" title="J. Edgar">J. Edgar</a></i> (2011) – after his mother dies, Hoover is shown donning her dress and necklace<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Paddington_(film)" title="Paddington (film)">Paddington</a></i> (2014) – Henry Brown (<a href="/wiki/Hugh_Bonneville" title="Hugh Bonneville">Hugh Bonneville</a>) dresses up as a cleaning lady to help Paddington get information from the archives.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ready_Player_One_(film)" title="Ready Player One (film)">Ready Player One</a></i> (2018) – Helen Harris (<a href="/wiki/Lena_Waithe" title="Lena Waithe">Lena Waithe</a>), the lesbian African-American, plays a <a href="/wiki/Virtual_reality" title="Virtual reality">virtual reality</a> OASIS as her male avatar named Aech, while appearing to be more masculine in real life.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Star_Is_Born_(2018_film)" title="A Star Is Born (2018 film)">A Star is Born</a></i> (2018) – The lead character, Ally (<a href="/wiki/Lady_Gaga" title="Lady Gaga">Lady Gaga</a>), works as a performer at a drag club where she is discovered by Jackson Maine.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ratsasan" title="Ratsasan">Ratsasan</a></i> (2018) – In a twist, main antagonist Christopher cross-dresses as his mother Mary Fernandez when abducting schoolgirls.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Beach_Bum" title="The Beach Bum">The Beach Bum</a></i> (2019) – The lead character, Moondog, disguises himself in women's clothing to escape discovery from the police.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rocko%27s_Modern_Life:_Static_Cling" title="Rocko's Modern Life: Static Cling">Rocko's Modern Life: Static Cling</a></i> (2019) – Ralph Bighead (voiced by <a href="/wiki/Joe_Murray_(animator)" title="Joe Murray (animator)">Joe Murray</a>) is a <a href="/wiki/Transgender" title="Transgender">transgender</a> <a href="/wiki/Cane_toad" title="Cane toad">cane toad</a> who transitions to a girl under the name Rachel.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Enola_Holmes_(film)" title="Enola Holmes (film)">Enola Holmes</a></i> (2020) – Running away from home, Enola Holmes (<a href="/wiki/Millie_Bobby_Brown" title="Millie Bobby Brown">Millie Bobby Brown</a>) dresses in the clothes of her brother Sherlock, posing as a young man.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sailor_Moon_Eternal" title="Sailor Moon Eternal">Sailor Moon Eternal</a></i> (2021) – <a href="/wiki/Dead_Moon_Circus#Hawk's_Eye" title="Dead Moon Circus">Hawk's Eye</a> is one of the evil circus performers who pretends to be a female owner of the <a href="/wiki/Herbal_store" title="Herbal store">herb store</a> so that he can lure <a href="/wiki/Sailor_Jupiter" title="Sailor Jupiter">Makoto Kino</a> into a trap.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Cruella_(film)" title="Cruella (film)">Cruella</a></i> (2021) – <a href="/wiki/Cruella_de_Vil" title="Cruella de Vil">Cruella de Vil</a> (<a href="/wiki/Emma_Stone" title="Emma Stone">Emma Stone</a>) disguises herself as a male <a href="/wiki/Truck_driver" title="Truck driver">truck driver</a> to break Jasper and Horace Badun (<a href="/wiki/Joel_Fry_(actor)" title="Joel Fry (actor)">Joel Fry</a> and <a href="/wiki/Paul_Walter_Hauser" title="Paul Walter Hauser">Paul Walter Hauser</a>) out of jail.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Bad_Guys_(film)" title="The Bad Guys (film)">The Bad Guys</a></i> (2022) - In one of Wolf's attempt plans to get the Golden Dolphin as a trophy, Shark disguises himself as a woman for the gala, complete with a wig. Wolf later dresses as a grandmother as part of a lesson in good manners.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Comedic_element">Comedic element</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cross-dressing_in_film_and_television&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Comedic element"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the documentary <i><a href="/wiki/Giuliani_Time" title="Giuliani Time">Giuliani Time</a></i> there are excerpts from <a href="/wiki/Rudy_Giuliani" title="Rudy Giuliani">Rudy Giuliani</a>'s appearance in a video, which was shown for the occasion of an Inner Circle press dinner. </p><p>The 1936 Polish film <i><a href="/wiki/Bohaterowie_Sybiru" title="Bohaterowie Sybiru">Bohaterowie Sybiru</a></i> has an episode where <a href="/wiki/Sybirak" title="Sybirak">Polish insurgents exiled to Siberia</a> are partying with Siberian peasants. Two Polish officers make a mock performance of a Polish folk dance, with one of them making a makeshift impersonation of a woman.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There are <a href="/wiki/Charley%27s_Aunt#Adaptations" title="Charley's Aunt">quite a few adaptations</a> of the 1892 farce <i><a href="/wiki/Charley%27s_Aunt" title="Charley's Aunt">Charley's Aunt</a></i>. In the original, a teenager impersonates his friend's aunt. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Television">Television</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cross-dressing_in_film_and_television&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Television"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Milton_Berle" title="Milton Berle">Milton Berle</a> was one of the most famous early cross-dressing comedians in skits and such on his <a href="/wiki/NBC" title="NBC">NBC</a> shows from 1948 to 1956.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harvey_Korman" title="Harvey Korman">Harvey Korman</a> played a Jewish mother character on <i><a href="/wiki/The_Carol_Burnett_Show" title="The Carol Burnett Show">The Carol Burnett Show</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Winters" title="Jonathan Winters">Jonathan Winters</a> had a popular female character, Maude Fricket.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flip_Wilson" title="Flip Wilson">Flip Wilson</a> created the memorable recurring character <a href="/wiki/Geraldine_Jones_(character)" title="Geraldine Jones (character)">Geraldine Jones (character)</a> on <i><a href="/wiki/The_Flip_Wilson_Show" title="The Flip Wilson Show">The Flip Wilson Show</a></i>.</li> <li>The first episode of the <i><a href="/wiki/Blackadder_II" title="Blackadder II">Blackadder II</a></i> series ends with <a href="/wiki/Lord_Blackadder" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord Blackadder">Blackadder</a>'s servant, <a href="/wiki/Baldrick#Blackadder_II" title="Baldrick">Baldrick</a>, acting as bridesmaid, and <a href="/wiki/Lord_Flashheart" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord Flashheart">Lord Flashheart</a> swapping clothes and running off with Blackadder's bride.</li> <li>Some other comedy <a href="/wiki/Sketch_comedy" title="Sketch comedy">sketch</a> shows, such as <i><a href="/wiki/Monty_Python%27s_Flying_Circus" title="Monty Python's Flying Circus">Monty Python's Flying Circus</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Little_Britain_(sketch_show)" class="mw-redirect" title="Little Britain (sketch show)">Little Britain</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_League_of_Gentlemen_(comedy)" class="mw-redirect" title="The League of Gentlemen (comedy)">The League of Gentlemen</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Saturday_Night_Live" title="Saturday Night Live">Saturday Night Live</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Kids_in_the_Hall_(TV_series)" title="The Kids in the Hall (TV series)">The Kids in the Hall</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/French_and_Saunders" title="French and Saunders">French and Saunders</a></i>.</li> <li>Australian male comedian <a href="/wiki/Barry_Humphries" title="Barry Humphries">Barry Humphries</a> has appeared as <a href="/wiki/Dame_Edna" class="mw-redirect" title="Dame Edna">Dame Edna</a> in several shows.</li> <li>British <a href="/wiki/Stand-up_comedy" title="Stand-up comedy">stand-up comedian</a> and <a href="/wiki/Actor" title="Actor">actor</a> <a href="/wiki/Eddie_Izzard" title="Eddie Izzard">Eddie Izzard</a> previously described herself as an "executive" or "action" transvestite, but now identifies as transgender.<sup id="cite_ref-SkyDec_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SkyDec-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Monty_Python" title="Monty Python">Monty Python</a> troupe have been known to cross dress in their TV series and films. One set of characters are older women referred to by the troupe as "pepperpots", and one sketch in <i><a href="/wiki/Monty_Python%27s_Flying_Circus" title="Monty Python's Flying Circus">Monty Python's Flying Circus</a></i>, "<a href="/wiki/The_Lumberjack_Song" title="The Lumberjack Song">The Lumberjack Song</a>", describes a <a href="/wiki/Lumberjack" title="Lumberjack">lumberjack</a> (Michael Palin) who likes to "put on women's clothing and hang around in bars."</li> <li>In <i><a href="/wiki/Clue_(musical)" title="Clue (musical)">Clue: The Musical</a></i>, Mrs. White is usually played by a man.</li> <li>In all versions of <i>Hairspray</i>—the <a href="/wiki/Hairspray_(1988_film)" title="Hairspray (1988 film)">original film</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Hairspray_(musical)" title="Hairspray (musical)">stage musical</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Hairspray_(2007_film)" title="Hairspray (2007 film)">film adapted from the musical</a>—Edna Turnblad is played by a man.</li> <li>On some plays and films by <a href="/wiki/Tyler_Perry" title="Tyler Perry">Tyler Perry</a>, he dresses up as a woman to play as <a href="/wiki/Madea" title="Madea">Madea</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meryl_Streep" title="Meryl Streep">Meryl Streep</a> played a male rabbi in an episode of <i><a href="/wiki/Angels_in_America_(miniseries)" title="Angels in America (miniseries)">Angels in America</a></i> (2003).<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michelle_Ehlen" title="Michelle Ehlen">Michelle Ehlen</a> plays a butch lesbian actress who gets cast as a man in a film in the comedic feature <i><a href="/wiki/Butch_Jamie" title="Butch Jamie">Butch Jamie</a></i> (2007).</li> <li>In the 1992 <a href="/wiki/Kannada" title="Kannada">Kannada</a> movie <i><a href="/wiki/Bombat_Hendthi" title="Bombat Hendthi">Bombat Hendthi</a></i>, a well-known male actor and dancer named Sridar crossdresses. His character and the character's friends want to rent a house, but the owners are not willing to rent to <a href="/wiki/Bachelor" title="Bachelor">bachelors</a>. So Sridhar crossdresses to become his friend's wife, while the rest of the actors (<a href="/wiki/Sihi_Kahi_Chandru" title="Sihi Kahi Chandru">Sihi-kahi Chandru</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tennis_Krishna" title="Tennis Krishna">Tennis Krishna</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ramesh_Bhat" title="Ramesh Bhat">Ramesh Bhatt</a>, <a href="/wiki/Malashri" title="Malashri">Malashri</a> and <a href="/wiki/Anjali_(actress)" title="Anjali (actress)">Anjali</a>) are in supporting roles.</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Xing_En&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Xing En (page does not exist)">Xing En</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%82%A2%E6%81%A9" class="extiw" title="zh:邢恩">zh</a>]</span> is known for cross dressing in several Chinese TV series. One notable character is a man named Su Xingchen in <i><a href="/wiki/Chinese_Paladin_5_(TV_series)" title="Chinese Paladin 5 (TV series)">Chinese Paladin 5</a></i> (2016), who is a sage of Mt Shu and good at strategy. Another notable character is Mo Ruofei in <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=I_Will_Never_Let_You_Go&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="I Will Never Let You Go (page does not exist)">I Will Never Let You Go</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%8F%E5%A5%B3%E8%8A%B1%E4%B8%8D%E5%BC%83" class="extiw" title="zh:小女花不弃">zh</a>]</span></i>, who has very handsome look.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Programs_that_feature_drag">Programs that feature drag</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cross-dressing_in_film_and_television&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Programs that feature drag"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Accused_(2010_TV_series)" title="Accused (2010 TV series)">Accused</a></i> - In the episode "Tracie's Story", <a href="/wiki/Sean_Bean" title="Sean Bean">Sean Bean</a> plays Simon, an English teacher, who by night cross-dresses as Tracie.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Shot_at_Love_with_Tila_Tequila" title="A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila">A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila</a></i> - In the episode "Can't We All Just Get Along?", The guys must "walk a mile in women's shoes"<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> by putting on high heels.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ask_Harriet" title="Ask Harriet">Ask Harriet</a></i> Jack Cody (<a href="/wiki/Anthony_Tyler_Quinn" title="Anthony Tyler Quinn">Anthony Tyler Quinn</a>) a sexist sportswriter loses his job and has to dress up as his female alter ego named Sylvia Coco in order to get it back.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/All_in_the_Family" title="All in the Family">All in the Family</a></i> featured female impersonator character "Beverley Lasalle" in later episodes</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/%27Allo_%27Allo!" title="'Allo 'Allo!">'Allo 'Allo!</a></i> featuring cross-dressing in most episodes.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_1st_Shop_of_Coffee_Prince" class="mw-redirect" title="The 1st Shop of Coffee Prince">The 1st Shop of Coffee Prince</a></i> (2007) – The main character pretends to be a boy in order to obtain a job at a coffee shop that only hires men.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Angry_Boys" title="Angry Boys">Angry Boys</a></i> (2011) - Chris Lilley cross-dresses as two characters, Ruth (Gran) Sims and Jen Okazaki in this Australian comedy show.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Amazing_Stories_(1985_TV_series)" title="Amazing Stories (1985 TV series)">Amazing Stories</a></i> - In the episode "Welcome to My Nightmare", Harry, a teenage horror movie buff's obsession lands him in a terrifying scene from the classic <a href="/wiki/Alfred_Hitchcock" title="Alfred Hitchcock">Alfred Hitchcock</a> film <i><a href="/wiki/Psycho_(1960_film)" title="Psycho (1960 film)">Psycho</a></i> but with him in the role of <a href="/wiki/Marion_Crane" title="Marion Crane">Marion Crane</a>.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Are_You_Being_Served%3F" title="Are You Being Served?">Are You Being Served?</a></i> often features <a href="/wiki/John_Inman" title="John Inman">John Inman</a> taking on female roles. Some of the other cast members such as <a href="/wiki/Frank_Thornton" title="Frank Thornton">Frank Thornton</a> occasionally appear in drag as well.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Arrested_Development_(TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Arrested Development (TV series)">Arrested Development</a></i> – <a href="/wiki/Tobias_F%C3%BCnke" class="mw-redirect" title="Tobias Fünke">Tobias Fünke</a> (played by <a href="/wiki/David_Cross" title="David Cross">David Cross</a>) disguises himself as a British nanny named Mrs. Featherbottom in order to maintain a relationship with his estranged family. (This is a direct reference to the film <i><a href="/wiki/Mrs._Doubtfire" title="Mrs. Doubtfire">Mrs. Doubtfire</a></i>). This development is an outcropping of the fact that, throughout the series, Tobias exhibits signs of being a <a href="/wiki/Latent_homosexual" class="mw-redirect" title="Latent homosexual">latent homosexual</a>.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Baskets_(TV_series)" title="Baskets (TV series)">Baskets</a></i> - <a href="/wiki/Louie_Anderson" title="Louie Anderson">Louie Anderson</a> portrays Christine Baskets, the matriarch of a quirky family in Bakersfield, California.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Baywatch_Nights" title="Baywatch Nights">Baywatch Nights</a></i> - Mitch Buchannon goes undercover as a female impersonator in the episode "Kind of a Drag".</li> <li>In <i><a href="/wiki/Axis_Powers:_Hetalia" class="mw-redirect" title="Axis Powers: Hetalia">Axis Powers: Hetalia</a></i>, Poland cross-dresses as a hobby and has a "<a href="/wiki/Valley_girl" title="Valley girl">valley girl</a>" accent.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Big_Bang_Theory" title="The Big Bang Theory">The Big Bang Theory</a></i> – In the first two episodes of the series a cross-dresser is described as having occupied Apartment 4B prior to <a href="/wiki/Penny_(The_Big_Bang_Theory)" title="Penny (The Big Bang Theory)">Penny</a>. The character was not named or seen until a flashback scene in Season 3, Episode 22 when <a href="/wiki/Leonard_Hofstadter" title="Leonard Hofstadter">Leonard Hofstadter</a> knocks on her apartment door and Louie/Louise, portrayed by Ajgie Kirkland en femme, directs Leonard to the "crazy guy across the hall" (<a href="/wiki/Sheldon_Cooper" title="Sheldon Cooper">Sheldon Cooper</a>). Sheldon also dresses up as a <a href="/wiki/French_maid" title="French maid">french maid</a> after losing a bet with <a href="/wiki/Howard_Wolowitz" title="Howard Wolowitz">Howard Wolowitz</a>. The whole gang dress as female DC superheroes after losing a bet.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Blackadder" title="Blackadder">Blackadder</a></i> has several drag incidents. <ul><li>In "<a href="/wiki/Bells_(Blackadder)" title="Bells (Blackadder)">Bells</a>", Kate (<a href="/wiki/Gabrielle_Glaister" title="Gabrielle Glaister">Gabrielle Glaister</a>) dresses up as <a href="/wiki/Bob_(Blackadder_character)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bob (Blackadder character)">"Bob"</a> in order to earn money working as a valet for <a href="/wiki/Lord_Blackadder" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord Blackadder">Lord Blackadder</a>, who finds himself attracted to this young "boy", eventually discovering Kate's identity and arranging a marriage, in which <a href="/wiki/Baldrick" title="Baldrick">Baldrick</a> takes the role of a bridesmaid. <a href="/wiki/Lord_Flashheart" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord Flashheart">Lord Flashheart</a> interrupts and steals away "Bob", but not before exchanging clothing with her.</li> <li>In "<a href="/wiki/Chains_(Blackadder)" title="Chains (Blackadder)">Chains</a>", <a href="/wiki/Prince_Ludwig_the_Indestructible" class="mw-redirect" title="Prince Ludwig the Indestructible">Prince Ludwig the Indestructible</a> (<a href="/wiki/Hugh_Laurie" title="Hugh Laurie">Hugh Laurie</a>) impersonates <a href="/wiki/Queenie_(Blackadder)" class="mw-redirect" title="Queenie (Blackadder)">Queenie</a> with a perfect disguise (really Laurie overdubbing <a href="/wiki/Miranda_Richardson" title="Miranda Richardson">Miranda Richardson</a>).</li> <li>In "<a href="/wiki/Amy_and_Amiability" class="mw-redirect" title="Amy and Amiability">Amy and Amiability</a>" from <i><a href="/wiki/Blackadder_the_Third" title="Blackadder the Third">Blackadder the Third</a></i>, Amy Hardwood (<a href="/wiki/Miranda_Richardson" title="Miranda Richardson">Miranda Richardson</a>) assumes the role of a <a href="/wiki/Highwayman" title="Highwayman">highwayman</a> in order to get money for her bankrupt father.</li> <li>Kate returns in "<a href="/wiki/Major_Star" title="Major Star">Major Star</a>" from <i><a href="/wiki/Blackadder_Goes_Forth" title="Blackadder Goes Forth">Blackadder Goes Forth</a></i> as Bob Parkhurst, driver for <a href="/wiki/General_Melchett" class="mw-redirect" title="General Melchett">General Melchett</a>. Also, <a href="/wiki/George_(Blackadder)" title="George (Blackadder)">Lieutenant George</a> (<a href="/wiki/Hugh_Laurie" title="Hugh Laurie">Hugh Laurie</a> in a different role) dresses in drag as "Georgina" for a music-hall show, put on to entertain the troops. He inadvertently draws the amorous attentions of Melchett. "Georgina" is only able to escape Melchett's efforts at marriage through a report from <a href="/wiki/Captain_Blackadder" class="mw-redirect" title="Captain Blackadder">Captain Blackadder</a>, that she wandered into <a href="/wiki/No-man%27s_land" class="mw-redirect" title="No-man's land">no-man's land</a> and trod on a cluster of <a href="/wiki/Landmines" class="mw-redirect" title="Landmines">landmines</a>.</li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Black_Butler" title="Black Butler">Black Butler</a></i> (2010) - In one episode Ciel dresses as a woman.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Bosom_Buddies" title="Bosom Buddies">Bosom Buddies</a></i> – <a href="/wiki/Tom_Hanks" title="Tom Hanks">Tom Hanks</a> and <a href="/wiki/Peter_Scolari" title="Peter Scolari">Peter Scolari</a> star as two single men who must regularly disguise themselves as women, in order to live in a ladies-only hotel, the only apartment they can afford.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Boston_Legal" title="Boston Legal">Boston Legal</a></i> character <a href="/wiki/Clarence_Bell_(Boston_Legal)" class="mw-redirect" title="Clarence Bell (Boston Legal)">Clarence Bell</a> is a transvestite client who came for legal help after being fired from his job. He later joined the firm as a legal assistant and eventually as a lawyer.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Boy_Meets_World" title="Boy Meets World">Boy Meets World</a></i> – Different characters cross-dress in later episodes.</li> <li><i>Briefgeheim</i> - French teacher Ms. Tijnman is actually a man dressed as a woman.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Bucket_%26_Skinner%27s_Epic_Adventures" title="Bucket & Skinner's Epic Adventures">Bucket & Skinner's Epic Adventures</a></i> (2011) in the episode "Epic Girls" Bucket and Skinner disguise themselves as girls in order to sneak into a party. They are also shown trying on different dresses.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Chappelle%27s_Show" title="Chappelle's Show">Chappelle's Show</a></i> - in the skit "The World's Greatest War", a dead black gangsta<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> can be seen wearing a blue high heel in a video.</li> <li>In the <i><a href="/wiki/Cory_in_the_House" title="Cory in the House">Cory in the House</a></i> episode "That's So in the House", Corey poses as his sister Raven.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In season 4 of <i><a href="/wiki/Criminal_Minds" title="Criminal Minds">Criminal Minds</a></i> Jackson Rathbone plays a janitor at a hotel with split-personality disorder. The character, Adam, is a shy, abused, withdrawn young man. His alter-personality, is a strong, confident, southern women named Amanda. Adam/Amanda tries to kill his/her father because of all of the abuse suffered. Afterwards 'Amanda' becomes the dominant personality. At the end of the episode 'Amanda' is shown to have undergone a transformation, complete with make-up, a long curled wig, and pink clothing.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Crusoe_(TV_series)" title="Crusoe (TV series)">Crusoe</a></i> (2008) – A recurring character Oliver is revealed to actually be a woman named Olivia (played by <a href="/wiki/M%C3%ADa_Maestro" title="Mía Maestro">Mía Maestro</a>). Crusoe discovered her one-day when she was bathing for the first time on the island after being aboard the ship for so long. She pretends to be Oliver and helps the doctor for her personal safety from the male crew.</li> <li>In <i><a href="/wiki/Cyberchase" title="Cyberchase">Cyberchase</a></i>, Delete impersonates Motherboard with a wig and some makeup.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cybersix_(TV_series)" title="Cybersix (TV series)">Cybersix</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Cybersix#Animated_television_series" title="Cybersix">1999 serial</a> and the comic, dresses as a male teacher named Adrian Seidelman, in order to escape Von Richter (her creator).</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Cybill" title="Cybill">Cybill</a></i>, in the episode "Cybill with an S", a hooker reveals herself as an undercover policeman, very brief in the beginning.</li> <li>Chihiro Fujisaki from <i><a href="/wiki/Danganronpa" title="Danganronpa">Danganronpa</a></i> cross-dresses as a female because of his deep insecurity about his weak physique, resorting to cross-dressing to hide his gender identity.</li> <li><i>Dårfinkar & dönickar</i><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> – The main character Simone is mistaken for a boy on her first day at a new school when she does not correct her teacher for mispronouncing her name as Simon.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Deal_or_No_Deal_(U.S._game_show)" class="mw-redirect" title="Deal or No Deal (U.S. game show)">Deal or No Deal</a></i> – On the episode that aired on February 14, 2008, contestant Edward Tommasi wore heels and a dress to win a $10 bet.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dexter%27s_Laboratory" title="Dexter's Laboratory">Dexter's Laboratory</a></i> – Many episodes feature Dexter in drag. Examples being Dimwit Dexter, Remember Me?, and Tribe Called Girl.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Doctor_Who" title="Doctor Who">Doctor Who</a></i> <ul><li>In the 1966 story "The Highlanders" the second Doctor (<a href="/wiki/Patrick_Troughton" title="Patrick Troughton">Patrick Troughton</a>) dresses as an old washerwoman as a ruse to try to find his companions in a crowded tavern in the aftermath of the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Culloden" title="Battle of Culloden">Battle of Culloden</a>.</li> <li>In 1973 in "The Green Death" the third Doctor (<a href="/wiki/Jon_Pertwee" title="Jon Pertwee">Jon Pertwee</a>) disguises himself as a cleaning lady to infiltrate Global Chemicals, where he engages in banter with the UNIT operative Mike Yates and refers to his plastic bucket as his 'handbag'. Both these interludes of 'cross-dressing' are played mainly for their comic value amid serious story-lines.</li></ul></li> <li>On <a href="/wiki/Dog_Eat_Dog_(American_game_show)" title="Dog Eat Dog (American game show)"><i>Dog Eat Dog</i></a>, episodes 13<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and 23<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> of the series saw the balance beam challenge of the show altered with the requirement that the contestant who participates in the challenge must wear six-inch high heels to walk across the beam. Both contestants who were selected to attempt the challenge were men and both failed to complete the challenge. Other episodes of the show saw contestants attempt to find the biological woman among a group of drag queens<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or to find the biological man among a group of drag kings,<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as well as a derivative of the former where a contestant has to find the bearded lady among a group of five individuals.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dragon_Ball_(TV_series)" title="Dragon Ball (TV series)">Dragon Ball</a></i> <ul><li>In the episode "Oolong the Terrible" (in a scene adapted from the <i>Dragon Ball</i> manga's fifth chapter "Oo! Oo! Oolong, Bulma and Goku learn that a shapeshifter named Oolong has been kidnapping village girls to marry him. Bulma comes up with a plan to rescue the girls by tricking Oolong into taking Goku crossdressing as Pochawompa the next girl Oolong has his sights on. When Oolong first appears he is in the form of a red devil and tries to flirt with Goku who unfortunately has to take a leak though Oolong mistakenly assumes "she" is being shy and transforms into a handsome man causing Bulma leave her hiding place to woo him, while Goku takes the opportunity to relieve himself unfortunately Oolong notices and enraged turns into a bull though Goku responds by removing the dress and challenging Oolong to a fight.</li> <li>In the episode "Look Out for Launch" (in a scene adapted from the <i>Dragon Ball</i> manga's twenty-seventh chapter "Nothing to Sneeze At"), in order to trick Good Launch into wearing pink frilled black lingerie leotard with matching leggings, Master Roshi convinces her and Goku (who is young and naive) that it is a training uniform with Master Roshi, Krillin, and Goku wearing identical lingerie as "training uniforms" so Launch won't suspect Roshi's real reason which is to see Launch in lingerie as he is an old lecher in addition to being a legendary martial artist. Unfortunately for Roshi, Launch's personality changes when she sneezes, going from her good and innocent persona to her tough gun-toting Bad Launch persona, who unlike her good persona quickly realizes what she's wearing and angrily pulls out an <a href="/wiki/Uzi" title="Uzi">IMI Uzi</a> to shoot at them in a comical fashion before sneezing again and returning to her Good Launch persona with neither Goku nor Good Launch realizing Master Roshi's deception due to their pure-hearted personalities.</li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dragon_Ball_GT" title="Dragon Ball GT">Dragon Ball GT</a></i> <ul><li>In the episode ″Trunks the Bride″ Trunks was forced to dress up as a bride to save a girl and planet's village after it was attacked by a monster named Zoonama who can create earthquakes. It was supposed to be Goku as the fake bride, but because he was too short to wear the dress he and Pan agreed on making him the fake bride.</li> <li>In ″Whiskers of Power″ Trunks as Trunksette becomes the ″bride″ for Zoonama as he is taken to Soonama's lair while there Goku, Pan, and Doma, the bride's fińacee, try to cut Zoonama's whiskers as he drinks a potion to knock him out, they only cut one and he wakes up! With Pan finding out that Zoonama can only predict earthquakes and not make them, Zoonama's lair, really a volcano, burst in to flames as Goku blast it with his Kamehameha destroying it as the episode ends with Goku, Pan, and a happy-to-be-out-that-dress Trunks is given a dragon ball though someone steals it.</li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/El_Hazard" class="mw-redirect" title="El Hazard">El Hazard</a></i> – Makoto Mizuhara impersonates Princess Fatora of Roshtaria who is kidnapped by the Phantom Tribe because of his uncanny resemblance to the princess.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Drew_Carey_Show" title="The Drew Carey Show">The Drew Carey Show</a></i> – Drew's brother, <a href="/wiki/Steve_Carey" class="mw-redirect" title="Steve Carey">Steve Carey</a>, is a cross-dresser.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Famous_Five_(novel_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Famous Five (novel series)">The Famous Five</a></i> TV series <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Famous_Five_(1978_TV_series)" title="The Famous Five (1978 TV series)">The Famous Five</a></i> (1978) - Georgiana wears boy's clothes, prefers to be called "George" and is pleased to be mistaken for a boy.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Famous_Five_(1995_TV_series)" title="The Famous Five (1995 TV series)">The Famous Five</a></i> (1996)</li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Fetch!_with_Ruff_Ruffman" title="Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman">Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman</a></i> – A Children's <a href="/wiki/Game_show" title="Game show">game show</a> on <a href="/wiki/PBS_Kids_Go!" title="PBS Kids Go!">PBS Kids Go!</a> Some episodes have boys dressing up in female outfits. Jay in Season 3 wore a cheerleading outfit (but it had shorts) in the episode "The Ol' Switcheroo". In the episode "Will they Like the Show? It's a Shoe-In!" featured boys playing basketball in high heels,<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in the episode of Season 4 called "Is it a Bird? Is it a Plane? It's...Ruffmanman!", Brian was with Bethany as part of the "Indestructible Butterflies"</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Firefly_(TV_series)" title="Firefly (TV series)">Firefly</a></i> – Mal Reynolds (played by <a href="/wiki/Nathan_Fillion" title="Nathan Fillion">Nathan Fillion</a>) wears a dress and a bonnet as a disguise while saving a town from bandits. He is later asked about this, and his response indicates that he has cross-dressed in the past.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Flip_Wilson_Show" title="The Flip Wilson Show">The Flip Wilson Show</a></i> (1970) - Flip Wilson plays <a href="/wiki/Geraldine_Jones_(character)" title="Geraldine Jones (character)">Geraldine Jones</a> as a recurring character in this sketch variety series.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Friends" title="Friends">Friends</a></i> – Chandler's father (played by <a href="/wiki/Kathleen_Turner" title="Kathleen Turner">Kathleen Turner</a>) is a cross-dresser.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Fruits_Basket" title="Fruits Basket">Fruits Basket</a></i> – Ritsu Sohma dresses as female, because it makes him feel more confident, and comfortable. His cousins Ayame Sohma and his younger brother, Yuki occasionally cross-dress because they look good in female clothing. With the former it's voluntary, the latter less so.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Fushigi_Yuugi" class="mw-redirect" title="Fushigi Yuugi">Fushigi Yuugi</a></i> – Nuriko, one of the Suzaku Seven Celestial Warriors, dresses as a woman in memory of his dead sister. In the middle of the manga series, the Suzaku Warriors had had to dress up as women to avoid being killed in the island of Nyousei, where barbaric, cannibalistic, anti-masculinist women lived. This idea is excluded from the anime series, but revived in the omake.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Futari_wa_Pretty_Cure" title="Futari wa Pretty Cure">Futari wa Pretty Cure</a></i> – In one episode, Nagisa Misumi disguises herself as a man twice in an attempt to reclaim Mepple, who had been confiscated. In a later episode, Nagisa plays the part of <a href="/wiki/Romeo" title="Romeo">Romeo</a> in Verone Academy's school play of <i><a href="/wiki/Romeo_and_Juliet" title="Romeo and Juliet">Romeo and Juliet</a></i>.</li> <li>In <i><a href="/wiki/Game_of_Thrones" title="Game of Thrones">Game of Thrones</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Arya_Stark" title="Arya Stark">Arya Stark</a> is a tomboy who prefers more masculine activities such as sword fighting instead of the more feminine activities like embroidery. After her father is arrested and executed she assumes the identity of a boy named "Arry" and tries to return to her family.</li> <li>In the anime <i><a href="/wiki/Genesis_Climber_MOSPEADA" title="Genesis Climber MOSPEADA">Genesis Climber MOSPEADA</a></i> (also known as the New Generation segment of <a href="/wiki/Robotech" title="Robotech">Robotech</a>) the character of Yellow Belmont/Lancer cross-dresses as a means of disguise, as well as to perform in his rock singer identity (known as Yellow Dancer in Robotech).</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gintama" title="Gintama">Gintama</a></i> - In Episode 24 Gintoki and Katsura are wearing female kimono as Piko and Zuka.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Glee_(TV_series)" title="Glee (TV series)">Glee</a></i> – In Season 3, episode 16 ("<a href="/wiki/Saturday_Night_Glee-ver" title="Saturday Night Glee-ver">Saturday Night Glee-ver</a>"), actor <a href="/wiki/Alex_Newell" title="Alex Newell">Alex Newell</a> portrays <a href="/wiki/Wade_Adams" class="mw-redirect" title="Wade Adams">Wade Adams</a>, a member of rival glee club Vocal Adrenaline, who performs as his transgender alter ego "Unique". In Season 4, Wade/Unique becomes a recurrent character.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Golden_Girls" class="mw-redirect" title="Golden Girls">Golden Girls</a></i> – Dorothy Zbronak's (<a href="/wiki/Beatrice_Arthur" class="mw-redirect" title="Beatrice Arthur">Beatrice Arthur</a>) brother Phil Petrillo, who was never seen on air, is a cross-dresser. When he died in the episode <i>Ebbtide's Revenge</i>, Phil's widow Angela had him buried in a teddy, to which Dorothy said to her roommates "it looks like he died in a <a href="/wiki/The_Benny_Hill_Show" title="The Benny Hill Show">Benny Hill</a> sketch!".</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gravitation_(manga)" title="Gravitation (manga)">Gravitation</a></i> – The main character, Shuichi Shindou, wears his sister's schoolgirl uniform and dons a maid outfit to try to get the attention of Eiri Yuki.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/H2O:_Footprints_in_the_Sand" title="H2O: Footprints in the Sand">H2O: Footprints in the Sand</a></i> (2008) - Hamaji Yakumo is a boy who cross-dresses as a girl.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hana-Kimi" title="Hana-Kimi">Hana-Kimi</a></i> (1997–2004) - The manga series centers on Mizuki Ashiya, a Japanese girl who lives in the United States. One day, she sees a track and field competition on TV, and becomes attracted to one of the high jump competitors, Izumi Sano. She begins to idolize the young athlete and eventually transfers to Japan to attend the same school that Sano attends. There is a catch, however: Sano attends an all-boys high school, named Osaka Gakuen and Mizuki must disguise herself as a boy to enter. It has been adapted into four drama shows: <i><a href="/wiki/Hanazakarino_Kimitachihe" title="Hanazakarino Kimitachihe">Hanazakarino Kimitachihe</a></i> (Taiwan), <i><a href="/wiki/Hanazakari_no_Kimitachi_e" class="mw-redirect" title="Hanazakari no Kimitachi e">Hanazakari no Kimitachi e</a></i> (Japan), <i><a href="/wiki/Hanazakari_no_Kimitachi_e_(2011_TV_series)" title="Hanazakari no Kimitachi e (2011 TV series)">Hanazakari no Kimitachi e</a></i> (Japan) and <i><a href="/wiki/To_the_Beautiful_You" title="To the Beautiful You">To the Beautiful You</a></i> (Korea).</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Happiness!_(visual_novel)" class="mw-redirect" title="Happiness! (visual novel)">Happiness!</a></i> (2006) - A secondary character of the series, Jun Watarase, is a boy who dresses as a girl.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/HeartCatch_PreCure" class="mw-redirect" title="HeartCatch PreCure">HeartCatch PreCure</a></i> - For the first half of the series, Itsuki Myoudouin cross-dresses as a boy because her brother is too ill to be heir of their dojo.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Heaven%27s_Lost_Property" title="Heaven's Lost Property">Heaven's Lost Property</a></i> - In episode 11, Sugata dresses like a long-haired woman while Mikako dresses like a man. Also, Tomoki is transformed into a girl called "Tomoko".</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/He%27s_a_Lady" title="He's a Lady">He's a Lady</a></i> – The 2004 <a href="/wiki/Reality_television" title="Reality television">reality television</a> series involves male contestants competing with each other to act as effeminately as possible, including cross-dressing.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hikari_Sentai_Maskman" title="Hikari Sentai Maskman">Hikari Sentai Maskman</a></i> – Princess Igam (<a href="/wiki/Mina_Asami" title="Mina Asami">Mina Asami</a>) has been raised as a man so that she could one day take the imperial throne.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Himegoto" title="Himegoto">Himegoto</a></i> (2014) – The protagonist, Hime Arikawa, dresses as a girl.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hollyoaks" title="Hollyoaks">Hollyoaks</a></i> character <a href="/wiki/Kris_Fisher" title="Kris Fisher">Kris Fisher</a> is a cross-dresser.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/I_My_Me!_Strawberry_Eggs" title="I My Me! Strawberry Eggs">I My Me! Strawberry Eggs</a></i> – Main character Hibiki Amawa disguises himself as a woman to obtain a job as a gym teacher at school that will only hire women.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/ICarly" title="ICarly">iCarly</a></i> – In the episode "iWant My Website Back", Spencer dressed as an old lady to fool Nevel into giving iCarly their URL back, but instead, he attracted an old man.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Inuyasha" title="Inuyasha">InuYasha</a></i> – Jakotsu of the Band of Seven always wears women's clothes and repeatedly flirts with <a href="/wiki/Inuyasha_(character)" title="Inuyasha (character)">Inuyasha</a>.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Invader_Zim" title="Invader Zim">Invader Zim</a></i> – In the episode "Walk for your Lives", Zim uses a fat lady disguise to get rid of an explosion that is exploding really really slowly.</li> <li>In the British TV sitcom <i><a href="/wiki/Keeping_Up_Appearances" title="Keeping Up Appearances">Keeping Up Appearances</a></i> Hyacinth's brother-in-law Bruce is a cross-dresser which Hyacinth tries not to let people find out about. In several episodes one can see Bruce in his outfits.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Kenny_vs._Spenny" title="Kenny vs. Spenny">Kenny vs. Spenny</a></i> - In the episode, "Who Makes the Most Convincing Woman?", <a href="/wiki/Kenny_Hotz" title="Kenny Hotz">Kenny Hotz</a> & <a href="/wiki/Spencer_Rice" title="Spencer Rice">Spencer Rice</a> in full drag, host a ladies-night-out cocktail party at the house. The real women will choose which one has transformed himself into the most convincing woman: Kendra (Hotz), the slutty party girl or Spennita (Rice), the career woman who wants it all.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_King%27s_Affection" title="The King's Affection">The King's Affection</a></i> – Main character is a <a href="/wiki/Joseon" title="Joseon">Joseon</a> royal princess posing as her dead twin brother – the Crown Prince.</li> <li>Goretti from <i><a href="/wiki/Killinaskully" title="Killinaskully">Killinaskully</a></i> was played by actor <a href="/wiki/Pat_Shortt" title="Pat Shortt">Pat Shortt</a>.</li> <li>Various characters from <i><a href="/wiki/Kuroshitsuji" class="mw-redirect" title="Kuroshitsuji">Kuroshitsuji</a></i> including main character Ciel Phantomhive and Grell Sutcliff cros-dress in some episodes and the OVAs.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Leonardo_(2011_TV_series)" title="Leonardo (2011 TV series)">Leonardo</a></i> – <a href="/wiki/Lisa_del_Giocondo" title="Lisa del Giocondo">Lisa</a> disguises herself as a boy named Tomaso so she may study art under <a href="/wiki/Andrea_del_Verrocchio" title="Andrea del Verrocchio">Andrea del Verrocchio</a>.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Love_in_the_Moonlight" title="Love in the Moonlight">Love in the Moonlight</a></i> - A 19th-century Korean girl dressed as a boy and eventually becomes a eunuch.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Steven_Crowder#Louder_with_Crowder" title="Steven Crowder">Louder with Crowder</a></i> (2017) - US political commentator Steven Crowder has a regular segment in which he cross-dresses for comedic effect.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Loud_House" title="The Loud House">The Loud House</a></i> – Lincoln dresses up as a girl like in episodes like "Overnight Success", "A Novel Idea" and "Cover Girls".</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Maid_Sama!" title="Maid Sama!">Maid Sama!</a></i> – Aoi Hyoudou, an internet celebrity, cross-dresses so he won't be made fun of for liking cute, girl things.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Maria_Holic" title="Maria Holic">Maria Holic</a></i> – Mariya Shidō is a boy who cross-dresses as a girl.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/M*A*S*H_(TV_series)" title="M*A*S*H (TV series)">M*A*S*H</a></i> – <a href="/wiki/Maxwell_Klinger" class="mw-redirect" title="Maxwell Klinger">Maxwell Klinger</a> (<a href="/wiki/Jamie_Farr" title="Jamie Farr">Jamie Farr</a>) regularly cross-dresses as part of a futile attempt to be dismissed from the military.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Master_of_None" title="Master of None">Master of None</a></i> – <a href="/wiki/Lena_Waithe" title="Lena Waithe">Lena Waithe</a>'s character Denise is a lesbian woman who poses as a hippie man. In Season 3, Denise is married to Alicia (<a href="/wiki/Naomi_Ackie" title="Naomi Ackie">Naomi Ackie</a>).</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/McHale%27s_Navy" title="McHale's Navy">McHale's Navy</a></i> – Whenever McHale and/or his crew have to disguise themselves in order to carry out one of their elaborate schemes, it's usually Tinker (<a href="/wiki/Billy_Sands" title="Billy Sands">Billy Sands</a>) or Ensign Parker (<a href="/wiki/Tim_Conway" title="Tim Conway">Tim Conway</a>) who has to dress up as a woman.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/MegaMan_NT_Warrior" title="MegaMan NT Warrior">MegaMan NT Warrior</a></i> (<i>Rockman.EXE</i>) – Villain Magnus Gauss (Gauss Magnets) cross-dresses as a woman and is obsessed with <a href="/wiki/Dr._Wily" title="Dr. Wily">Dr. Wily</a>. In one episode (unaired in the dub), three of the main characters cross-dress as idol singer Aki-chan to rescue a group of kidnapped girls.</li> <li>In <i><a href="/wiki/Merlin%27s_Apprentice" title="Merlin's Apprentice">Merlin's Apprentice</a></i> a young girl Brianna disguises herself as a male squire in order to avenge her family's loss of land.</li> <li>"Written in Blood", the second episode of crime drama <i><a href="/wiki/Midsomer_Murders" title="Midsomer Murders">Midsomer Murders</a></i>, features a cross-dressing victim.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rich_Fulcher" title="Rich Fulcher">Rich Fulcher</a> plays a woman named Eleanor in the Season 3 episode "Eels" of the British comedy show <i><a href="/wiki/The_Mighty_Boosh" title="The Mighty Boosh">The Mighty Boosh</a></i>. He continues to dress as Eleanor for stand-up comedy gigs, and refers to her as a separate person from himself. In the season 2 episode "Nanageddon", main characters Howard Moon (<a href="/wiki/Julian_Barratt" title="Julian Barratt">Julian Barratt</a>) and Vince Noir (<a href="/wiki/Noel_Fielding" title="Noel Fielding">Noel Fielding</a>) dress as nanas in order to sneak into a bingo game and find the elusive demon, Nanatoo.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Minami-ke" title="Minami-ke">Minami-ke</a></i> – Makoto regularly cross-dresses as Mako-chan to get close a girl he likes. Another character, Tōma, is a tomboy with three older brothers who regularly wears male clothing.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mission:_Impossible_(1966_TV_series)" title="Mission: Impossible (1966 TV series)">Mission: Impossible</a></i> - In the <a href="/wiki/Mission:_Impossible_season_4" title="Mission: Impossible season 4">fourth season</a> episode, "Gitano", Paris (<a href="/wiki/Leonard_Nimoy" title="Leonard Nimoy">Leonard Nimoy</a>) and Zorka (<a href="/wiki/Margarita_Cordova" title="Margarita Cordova">Margarita Cordova</a>) disguise King Victor (<a href="/wiki/Barry_Williams_(actor)" title="Barry Williams (actor)">Barry Williams</a>) as a Gitano girl in order for him to not get spotted by Colonel Moya and his guards.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mobile_Suit_Gundam_00" title="Mobile Suit Gundam 00">Mobile Suit Gundam 00</a></i> – <a href="/wiki/Gundam" title="Gundam">Gundam</a> pilot <a href="/wiki/Tieria_Erde" class="mw-redirect" title="Tieria Erde">Tieria Erde</a> cross-dresses in the second season in order to gain entrance to a party.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mobile_Suit_Gundam_ZZ" title="Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ">Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ</a></i> – <a href="/wiki/Gundam" title="Gundam">Gundam</a> pilot <a href="/wiki/Judau_Ashta" class="mw-redirect" title="Judau Ashta">Judau Ashta</a> cross-dresses in the second season to free his female companions from a <a href="/wiki/Harem" title="Harem">harem</a></li> <li>Along with the members of <i><a href="/wiki/Monty_Python%27s_Flying_Circus" title="Monty Python's Flying Circus">Monty Python's Flying Circus</a></i> dressing up as women for comedic purposes, Monty Python featured a sketch called "<a href="/wiki/The_Lumberjack_Song" title="The Lumberjack Song">The Lumberjack Song</a>", about a <a href="/wiki/Lumberjack" title="Lumberjack">lumberjack</a> who likes to "put on women's clothing and hang around in bars."</li> <li><i>Mr. Headmistress</i> – TV movie – Ex-con <a href="/wiki/Harland_Williams" title="Harland Williams">Harland Williams</a> disguises himself as the new Headmistress of an all-girl school to avoid some thugs.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Murder,_She_Wrote" title="Murder, She Wrote">Murder, She Wrote</a></i> – The episode "<a href="/wiki/List_of_Murder,_She_Wrote_episodes" title="List of Murder, She Wrote episodes">Birds of a Feather</a>" features two drag queens. Also in "Amsterdam Kill", there is a woman disguised as a man and there is another in done of the episodes set in Ireland.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/My_Little_Pony:_Friendship_Is_Magic" title="My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic">My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic</a></i> – In the episode called "Brotherhooves Social", Big MacIntosh is disguised as a mare named Orchard Blossom with a <a href="/wiki/Blond" title="Blond">blond</a> <a href="/wiki/Wig" title="Wig">wig</a> and a blue <a href="/wiki/Dress" title="Dress">dress</a> complete with pink <a href="/wiki/Makeup" class="mw-redirect" title="Makeup">makeup</a> and fake eyelashes.</li> <li><i>My Partner Knows Best</i> - On the April 25, 2018 episode,<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the husband contestants were forced to run an obstacle course in high heels and subjected themselves to a full body wax.</li> <li><i>Nail Shop Paris</i> – An author tries to break out of her writer's block by disguising herself as a boy so she can base her next novel on a nail salon staffed only by men.</li> <li>In <i><a href="/wiki/The_Nick_Cannon_Show" title="The Nick Cannon Show">The Nick Cannon Show</a></i> Nick dresses like a woman in 6 episodes.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Otoboku" class="mw-redirect" title="Otoboku">Otoboku</a></i> – Mizuho Miyanokoji cross-dresses to attend a girls' school as per his grandfather's wishes.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/On_Our_Own_(1994_TV_series)" title="On Our Own (1994 TV series)">On Our Own</a></i> – the oldest brother of an orphaned family cross-dresses, pretending to be an older aunt, to keep his family together until he is legally of age. Features the Smollett family.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/One_Piece" title="One Piece">One Piece</a></i> – A Japanese anime and a <a href="/wiki/Manga" title="Manga">manga</a> about pirates includes a number of cross-dressing characters, the okamas. The most notable of them are Mr. 2 (a.k.a.<a href="/wiki/Bon_Clay" class="mw-redirect" title="Bon Clay">Bon Clay</a>) who can change his physical appearance and Emporio Ivankov, a queen of a drag queen kingdom, who can change his sex by controlling the hormones (and strongly resembles Tim Curry's Dr. Frank-N-Furter from <i><a href="/wiki/The_Rocky_Horror_Picture_Show" title="The Rocky Horror Picture Show">The Rocky Horror Picture Show</a></i>).</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/One_Well-Raised_Daughter" title="One Well-Raised Daughter">One Well-Raised Daughter</a></i> - In this South Korean serial drama, the main protagonist, a female has to dress like a boy in order to inherit her family's Soy Sauce business in order to keep it out of the hands of a scheming woman and a competing company. Although she is outed after she succeeds, she exacts revenge on them upon learning their plans to take over the business.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Opposite_Sex_(TV_series)" title="Opposite Sex (TV series)">Opposite Sex</a></i> – In the pilot episode, the first three boys (<a href="/wiki/Milo_Ventimiglia" title="Milo Ventimiglia">Milo Ventimiglia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kyle_Howard" title="Kyle Howard">Kyle Howard</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chris_Evans_(actor)" title="Chris Evans (actor)">Chris Evans</a><sup id="cite_ref-Chris_Evans_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Chris_Evans-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) in a formerly all-girls school do a drag routine in the schools annual talent show.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Otome_wa_Boku_ni_Koishiteru" title="Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru">Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru</a></i> – The main character of the series, Mizuho Miyanokouji, is a boy who cross-dresses as a girl.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ouran_High_School_Host_Club" title="Ouran High School Host Club">Ouran High School Host Club</a></i> – Main character <a href="/wiki/Haruhi_Fujioka" title="Haruhi Fujioka">Haruhi Fujioka</a> cross-dresses regularly and is initially mistaken as male by the members of the Host Club. Also, various Host Club members cross-dress on occasion, including manga episodes 10 (Hikaru, Kaoru, and Hunny as part of a plan to keep Haruhi away from Saint Lobelia's Zuka Club, and in the anime adaptation, Tamaki and Kyoya also cross-dress for the same reason), 11 (Hikaru and Kaoru take turns dressing as the witch of the central wing), 15 (Hikaru, Kaoru, Tamaki, and Mori all dress in Alice costumes, and Kyoya portrays the Black Queen as well as Alice's mother in this chapter), and 20 (Hunny while going undercover with the Host Club to monitor Haruhi and Hikaru's date).</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Perfect_Strangers_(TV_series)" title="Perfect Strangers (TV series)">Perfect Strangers</a></i> Larry dresses up as a woman in the episode <i>Just a Gigolo</i>.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pink_Is_In" title="Pink Is In">Pink Is In</a></i>, a Canadian comedy series that airs on Tubi in the US, features an actor in drag playing the character of Ruby, an inmate at a women's prison.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_(anime)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pokémon (anime)">Pokémon</a></i> – James from Team Rocket, often appears in a dress or skirt, and in one of the <a href="/wiki/Banned_episodes_of_Pok%C3%A9mon#Beauty_and_the_Beachbanned" class="mw-redirect" title="Banned episodes of Pokémon">banned</a> episodes, he is even seen in a bikini complete with inflatable breasts. A partial list of characters including <a href="/wiki/Ash_Ketchum" title="Ash Ketchum">Ash Ketchum</a> (three times), and Jessie and Meowth of Team Rocket, have also been known to cross-dress, although not as often as James. One of Misty's older sisters dress up as a <a href="/wiki/Prince" title="Prince">prince</a> and Gastly also once disguised as a beautiful maiden and an old woman at a summer festival.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Powerpuff_Girls" title="The Powerpuff Girls">The Powerpuff Girls</a></i> – Bubbles disguises herself as one of the Rowdyruff Boys, Boomer, to go undercover and track down his brothers, Brick and Butch. Professor Utonium also disguises himself as a woman in another episode.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Princess_Knight" title="Princess Knight">Princess Knight</a></i> – Princess Sapphire disguises herself like a man to fight in her adventures.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Princess_Princess_(manga)" title="Princess Princess (manga)">Princess Princess</a></i> – Three students in an all-male school dress as girls to raise the spirits of the other students.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Queer_as_Folk_(American_TV_series)" title="Queer as Folk (American TV series)">Queer as Folk</a></i> – <a href="/wiki/List_of_Queer_as_Folk_characters#Melanie_Marcus" title="List of Queer as Folk characters">Melanie Marcus</a> (<a href="/wiki/Michelle_Clunie" title="Michelle Clunie">Michelle Clunie</a>), the lesbian <a href="/wiki/Attorney_at_law" title="Attorney at law">attorney</a>/<a href="/wiki/Lawyer" title="Lawyer">lawyer</a>, embodies more masculine traits such as in "The Wedding" where she wears a tuxedo as a <a href="/wiki/Bridegroom" title="Bridegroom">bridegroom</a> to marry her partner <a href="/wiki/List_of_Queer_as_Folk_characters#Lindsay_Peterson" title="List of Queer as Folk characters">Lindsay Peterson</a> (<a href="/wiki/Thea_Gill" title="Thea Gill">Thea Gill</a>).</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Robin_Hood_(2006_TV_series)" title="Robin Hood (2006 TV series)">Robin Hood</a></i> – Djaq (played by <a href="/wiki/Anjali_Jay" title="Anjali Jay">Anjali Jay</a>) is a Saracen who true name is Saffiya, but she disguises herself as a boy by adopting her dead twin brother's name and appearance.</li> <li>In the <i><a href="/wiki/Round_the_Twist" title="Round the Twist">Round the Twist</a></i> episode "Lucky Lips", Pete is given a magical lipstick by a mysterious fortune teller that would make any female unable to resist kissing him. In the episode "Know All", Tony ends up being dressed as a fortune teller.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ramen_Fighter_Miki" class="mw-redirect" title="Ramen Fighter Miki">Ramen Fighter Miki</a></i> – Episode 10 Part 1 includes a scene where Kankuro is wearing Miki's outfit while trying to beat her at her own game (that being ramen delivery). Then at the end of Episode 12 Part 1, he dons the disguise of an aristocratic lady to try to get Miki to challenge him.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ranma_%C2%BD" title="Ranma ½">Ranma ½</a></i> – A Japanese anime about a martial artist called <a href="/wiki/Ranma_Saotome" title="Ranma Saotome">Ranma</a> who can transform into a girl. His gender is easily changed through means not under his control, so a costume which works on one gender often suddenly and comically becomes inappropriate cross-dressing. Also appearing in the anime and manga are Tsubasa Kurenai and Konatsu, who are male cross-dressers, and Ukyo Kuonji, a female cross-dresser and potential love interest of the gender-changing Ranma.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Riches" title="The Riches">The Riches</a></i> – Sam Malloy (Aidan Mitchell), the youngest son of an <a href="/wiki/Irish_Traveller" class="mw-redirect" title="Irish Traveller">Irish-American Traveller</a> family, prefers cross-dressing. Even though under certain circumstances Sam can wear boys' clothes, he occasionally reverts to girls' clothing, much to the embarrassment of his family. (<i>The Riches</i> also features <a href="/wiki/Eddie_Izzard" title="Eddie Izzard">Eddie Izzard</a> portraying Sam's non-transvestite dad, Wayne Malloy.)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Rose_of_Versailles" title="The Rose of Versailles">The Rose of Versailles</a></i> – <a href="/wiki/Oscar_Fran%C3%A7ois_de_Jarjayes" title="Oscar François de Jarjayes">Oscar François de Jarjayes</a>, the main character of the series, is a woman who was raised as a boy and who cross-dresses as a man.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/RuPaul%27s_Drag_Race" title="RuPaul's Drag Race">RuPaul's Drag Race</a></i> – a competition <a href="/wiki/Reality_show" class="mw-redirect" title="Reality show">reality show</a> premised around <a href="/wiki/Drag_Queen" class="mw-redirect" title="Drag Queen">Drag Queens</a>, men who cross-dress professionally as a means of entertainment. The show gives a deeper side to the art of female impersonation, as well as insight into the world of a gay drag artist.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sailor_Moon_(TV_series)" title="Sailor Moon (TV series)">Sailor Moon</a></i> – In one episode of the first season, Zoisite (one of the villains) disguises himself as <a href="/wiki/Sailor_Moon_(character)" title="Sailor Moon (character)">Sailor Moon</a>. In the "Sailor Moon Super S" season, <a href="/wiki/Dead_Moon_Circus#Fish_Eye" title="Dead Moon Circus">Fish-Eye</a> always dresses like a woman. In both "Sailor Moon S" and "Sailor Stars" seasons, Haruka Tenou (<a href="/wiki/Sailor_Uranus" title="Sailor Uranus">Sailor Uranus</a>) wears masculine clothes most of the time, and even chooses to wear the masculine version of her school uniform, to the point of being mistaken for a boy by other characters. In "Sailor Stars", Seiya, Taiki, and Yaten, became Sailor Starlights.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Samantha_oups!" title="Samantha oups!">Samantha oups!</a></i> – French comedy series starring two men who portray themselves as women—Samantha (played by David Strajmayster) and Chantal (Guillaume Carcaud).</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sasameki_Koto" class="mw-redirect" title="Sasameki Koto">Sasameki Koto</a></i> – Masaki Akemiya is a boy who cross-dresses as a girl.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Saved_by_the_Bell" title="Saved by the Bell">Saved by the Bell</a></i> – Zach and Screech occasionally dress as women either to disguise themselves or for comic effect.</li> <li><i>SheeZaam</i> - A cartoon pilot about a male sanitation worker who gains a magical ring that grants him superpowers, but since the ring is intended only for a woman, his superhero form is cross-dressed.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/SheZow" title="SheZow">SheZow</a></i> — A cartoon about a preteen boy who gains a magical ring that grants him superpowers, but since the ring is intended only for a girl, his superhero form is cross-dressed.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In <i><a href="/wiki/Shin_Hakkenden" title="Shin Hakkenden">Shin Hakkenden</a></i> Rei Yozora, one of the main characters, is so convincing in her crossdressing that Kou and Tomoka are bewildered when they found out she was a woman in the end.</li> <li>In the <i><a href="/wiki/Silver_Spoons" title="Silver Spoons">Silver Spoons</a></i> episode "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World", Ricky (Ricky Schroder) is convinced to dress up in drag and be a friend's date for a dance because his friend saved Ricky from an almost fatal accident previously.</li> <li>In <i><a href="/wiki/The_Simpsons" title="The Simpsons">The Simpsons</a></i> episode "<a href="/wiki/Girls_Just_Want_to_Have_Sums" title="Girls Just Want to Have Sums">Girls Just Want to Have Sums</a>", <a href="/wiki/Lisa_Simpson" title="Lisa Simpson">Lisa Simpson</a> disguises herself as a boy named Jake Boyman in order to learn math when the school is segregated by gender. <a href="/wiki/Bart_Simpson" title="Bart Simpson">Bart</a> has also worn girls' clothes on several occasions, sometimes by choice, and sometimes against his will.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Something_in_the_Air_(TV_series)" title="Something in the Air (TV series)">Something in the Air</a></i> – Features a cross-dressing politician, Doug Rutherford (played by <a href="/wiki/Roger_Oakley" title="Roger Oakley">Roger Oakley</a>).</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/SpongeBob_SquarePants" title="SpongeBob SquarePants">SpongeBob SquarePants</a></i> – <a href="/wiki/SpongeBob_SquarePants_(character)" title="SpongeBob SquarePants (character)">SpongeBob</a> has dressed like a woman in several episodes. His best friend <a href="/wiki/Patrick_Star" title="Patrick Star">Patrick Star</a> cross-dresses in order to protect himself from what he thinks is an <a href="/wiki/Assassination" title="Assassination">assassin</a> in the episode "<a href="/wiki/That%27s_No_Lady" class="mw-redirect" title="That's No Lady">That's No Lady</a>".</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Star_Trek:_Deep_Space_Nine" title="Star Trek: Deep Space Nine">Star Trek: Deep Space Nine</a></i> has on several occasions featured characters cross-dressing. In "<a href="/wiki/Profit_and_Lace" title="Profit and Lace">Profit and Lace</a>", the character Quark dresses as a woman to prevent an enemy of his to ascend to the power of Grand Nagus. In another <a href="/wiki/Ferengi" title="Ferengi">Ferengi</a>-related episode, "<a href="/wiki/Rules_of_Acquisition_(Star_Trek:_Deep_Space_Nine)" title="Rules of Acquisition (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)">Rules of Acquisition</a>", a female Ferengi cross-dresses because females are not permitted to earn profit in the Ferengi culture. "Rules of Acquisition" is also one of the few episodes that references how the <a href="/wiki/Sexuality_in_Star_Trek" title="Sexuality in Star Trek">Federation views homosexuality</a> when the character Dax discusses that it's a normal thing for a man to be in love with another man (She doesn't know that the man she is chatting with at the time is really a woman, cross-dressed).</li> <li>On <i><a href="/wiki/The_Suite_Life_on_Deck" title="The Suite Life on Deck">The Suite Life on Deck</a></i>, Bailey pretended to be a boy so she could attend Seven Seas High on the SS Tipton because all of the girls rooms were taken. She becomes Zack's roommate and he agrees to keep it a secret. It is quickly found that Bailey is actually a girl and she ends up rooming with London.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Suite_Life_of_Zack_%26_Cody" title="The Suite Life of Zack & Cody">The Suite Life of Zack & Cody</a></i> - Both Zack and Cody (played by real-life twins <a href="/wiki/Cole_and_Dylan_Sprouse" class="mw-redirect" title="Cole and Dylan Sprouse">Cole and Dylan Sprouse</a>) cross-dress in several episodes for numerous reasons; one most notably being Cody entering a beauty pageant for young girls while Zack approves of it because the first prize is a new bike.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Summer_Heights_High" title="Summer Heights High">Summer Heights High</a></i> – Chris Lilley cross-dresses for the character of Ja'mie King in this Australian comedy; she is often seen wearing a green school dress.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sungkyunkwan_Scandal" title="Sungkyunkwan Scandal">Sungkyunkwan Scandal</a></i> – In 18th century Korea, a young girl dresses as a boy so she can attend a prestigious school and earn money to support her impoverished family.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Jeffersons" title="The Jeffersons">The Jeffersons</a></i> – George's navy buddy Eddie (Edie) Stokes and employee Leroy cross-dress to fool Louise when George can't find the real Eddie .</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Three%27s_Company" title="Three's Company">Three's Company</a></i> – <a href="/wiki/Jack_Tripper" title="Jack Tripper">Jack Tripper</a> (played by <a href="/wiki/John_Ritter" title="John Ritter">John Ritter</a>) dresses up as a woman in two episodes. Larry Dallas (played by <a href="/wiki/Richard_Kline" title="Richard Kline">Richard Kline</a>) also dresses up as a woman in one episode.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tipping_the_Velvet_(TV_serial)" class="mw-redirect" title="Tipping the Velvet (TV serial)">Tipping the Velvet</a></i> – A coming of age story about a young woman named Nan (<a href="/wiki/Rachael_Stirling" title="Rachael Stirling">Rachael Stirling</a>) who falls in love with a male impersonator.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Together_(Singaporean_TV_series)" title="Together (Singaporean TV series)">Together</a></i> – Singaporean drama which in episode 10, Yao Wuji (<a href="/wiki/Zhang_Zhen_Huan" class="mw-redirect" title="Zhang Zhen Huan">Zhang Zhen Huan</a>) was asked to cross-dress as part of his job of being an Ah Gua (a man who acts like a woman) which made his father (<a href="/wiki/Wang_Yuqing" title="Wang Yuqing">Wang Yuqing</a>) to nearly kill him by constantly beating him. He was also seen cross-dressing in episode 9.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Twin_Peaks" title="Twin Peaks">Twin Peaks</a></i> – The character <a href="/wiki/Catherine_Martell" class="mw-redirect" title="Catherine Martell">Catherine Martell</a> (<a href="/wiki/Piper_Laurie" title="Piper Laurie">Piper Laurie</a>) disguises as Japanese investor Mr. Tojamura, Denise/Dennis Bryson (<a href="/wiki/David_Duchovny" title="David Duchovny">David Duchovny</a>) is a male character who wears women's clothes because it relaxes him, and at one point <a href="/wiki/Windom_Earle" class="mw-redirect" title="Windom Earle">Windom Earle</a> (<a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Welsh" title="Kenneth Welsh">Kenneth Welsh</a>) impersonates the <a href="/wiki/Log_Lady" title="Log Lady">Log Lady</a>.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Ugliest_Girl_in_Town" title="The Ugliest Girl in Town">The Ugliest Girl in Town</a></i> – sitcom about a male American actor who accepts a female modeling job in London to be with his girlfriend.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uh_Oh!_(game_show)" title="Uh Oh! (game show)"><i>Uh Oh!</i></a> - During episode 74 of the first season, a part of the <i>Slime Tour</i> obstacle course race that took place in <a href="/wiki/Victoria,_British_Columbia" title="Victoria, British Columbia">Victoria, British Columbia</a> included an obstacle where the three participants had to first put on ball gowns <i>à la</i> <a href="/wiki/Queen_Victoria" title="Queen Victoria">Queen Victoria</a> before moving on to the next obstacle; one of the children in the race was a boy named "Rad" Rhys.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A variety of other obstacle courses of the <i>Slime Tour</i> that aired on different episodes of <i>Uh Oh!</i> included requirements for contestants to don dresses before proceeding onwards with the course, and many of the contestants in those courses were boys. The organizer of the <i>Slime Tour</i>, "Slime Master" <a href="/wiki/Shaun_Majumder" title="Shaun Majumder">Shaun Majumder</a> (and later, <a href="/wiki/Ryan_Belleville" title="Ryan Belleville">Ryan Belleville</a>), has also occasionally dressed as a woman at times when introducing some of the different obstacle courses of the <i>Slime Tour</i>.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Victorious" title="Victorious">Victorious</a></i> - in the episode "Beck Falls for Tori" Beck disguises as Tori in or to do the stunt.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/We_Can_Be_Heroes:_Finding_the_Australian_of_the_Year" title="We Can Be Heroes: Finding the Australian of the Year">We Can Be Heroes</a></i> (2005) - Chris Lilley cross-dresses for two characters, Pat Mullins and Ja'mie King in this Australian mockumentary, the first show that Lilley created.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Work_It_(TV_series)" title="Work It (TV series)">Work It</a></i> – American television sitcom about two men who must dress as women in order to keep a job in a bad economy.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/World_Wrestling_Entertainment" class="mw-redirect" title="World Wrestling Entertainment">World Wrestling Entertainment</a> wrestler <a href="/wiki/Dustin_Rhodes" title="Dustin Rhodes">Dustin Rhodes</a> portrayed "Goldust", a gimmick that involved cross-dressing as well as former wrestler <a href="/wiki/Vito_LoGrasso" title="Vito LoGrasso">Vito LoGrasso</a>, who later gained the nickname "The Toughest Man To Ever Wear A Dress". <a href="/wiki/Tyler_Breeze" title="Tyler Breeze">Tyler Breeze</a>'s "Fashion Police" gimmick alongside <a href="/wiki/Fandango_(wrestler)" title="Fandango (wrestler)">Fandango</a> also involved cross-dressing. Numerous other male wrestlers in various promotions have also donned women's clothing as a punishment for losing a <a href="/wiki/Glossary_of_professional_wrestling_terms" title="Glossary of professional wrestling terms">match</a> over the years such as <a href="/wiki/Brian_Pillman" title="Brian Pillman">Brian Pillman</a> and <a href="/wiki/Perry_Saturn" title="Perry Saturn">Perry Saturn</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2018)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Young_Americans_(TV_series)" title="Young Americans (TV series)">Young Americans</a></i> TV series in which one of the female characters poses as a boy.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/You_Can%27t_Do_That_on_Television" title="You Can't Do That on Television">You Can't Do That on Television</a></i> – Several comedy sketches, particularly in the early years, featured boys in the cast wearing dresses for various reasons.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/You_Rang,_M%27Lord%3F" title="You Rang, M'Lord?">You Rang, M'Lord?</a></i> – Cissy is a lesbian cross-dresser, complete with <a href="/wiki/Monocle" title="Monocle">monocle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cravat_(early)" title="Cravat (early)">cravat</a> and short hair.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/You%27re_Beautiful_(TV_series)" title="You're Beautiful (TV series)">You're Beautiful</a></i> – A young nun cross-dresses as a boy to impersonate her brother in a boy band. <i>You're Beautiful</i> was remade into the 2013 Taiwanese series <i><a href="/wiki/Fabulous_Boys" title="Fabulous Boys">Fabulous Boys</a></i>.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Zoey_101" title="Zoey 101">Zoey 101</a></i> – In one episode of this show Lola disguises herself as a boy to prove boys can still act the same if a girl is around.</li> <li>In <i><a href="/wiki/Zoids:_Chaotic_Century" title="Zoids: Chaotic Century">Zoids: Chaotic Century</a></i> episode 28 "Run, Wolf!" Prince Rudolph Zeppelin III is disguised as a girl in order to hide his identity.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Animation,_cartoons_and_anime"><span id="Animation.2C_cartoons_and_anime"></span>Animation, cartoons and anime</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cross-dressing_in_film_and_television&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Animation, cartoons and anime"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_cross-dressing_characters_in_animated_series" title="List of cross-dressing characters in animated series">List of cross-dressing characters in animated series</a></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bugs_Bunny" title="Bugs Bunny">Bugs Bunny</a> frequently cross-dresses in his cartoons for either comedic effect, or to confound a male opponent. Notable examples include "<a href="/wiki/Rabbit_of_Seville" title="Rabbit of Seville">Rabbit of Seville</a>", "<a href="/wiki/What%27s_Opera_Doc" class="mw-redirect" title="What's Opera Doc">What's Opera Doc</a>" and "<a href="/wiki/Rabbit_Seasoning" title="Rabbit Seasoning">Rabbit Seasoning</a>", all in attempts to deceive <a href="/wiki/Elmer_Fudd" title="Elmer Fudd">Elmer Fudd</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Major_characters_of_Crash_Bandicoot#Doctor_N._Gin" class="mw-redirect" title="Major characters of Crash Bandicoot">Doctor N. Gin</a> from the <i><a href="/wiki/Crash_Bandicoot_(series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Crash Bandicoot (series)">Crash Bandicoot</a></i> series wears a <a href="/wiki/Ballerina" class="mw-redirect" title="Ballerina">ballerina</a> dancer outfit in <i><a href="/wiki/Crash_Tag_Team_Racing" title="Crash Tag Team Racing">Crash Tag Team Racing</a></i>. The tutu, obtained through one of <a href="/wiki/Crash_Bandicoot_(character)" title="Crash Bandicoot (character)">Crash</a>'s missions, is an alternative costume that made N. Gin feel "pretty" and boosted his self-esteem.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_The_Powerpuff_Girls_characters#HIM" title="List of The Powerpuff Girls characters">Him</a> from <i><a href="/wiki/The_Powerpuff_Girls" title="The Powerpuff Girls">The Powerpuff Girls</a></i> series is shown every time, wearing a typical skirt, fishnet stockings, and high-heeled boots.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Pok%C3%A9mon_characters#Team_Rocket" title="List of Pokémon characters">Jessie and James</a> from <i><a href="/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_(anime)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pokémon (anime)">Pokémon</a></i> cross-dress as ballet performers and wedding couples.</li> <li>In the manga and anime <i><a href="/wiki/Ouran_High_School_Host_Club" title="Ouran High School Host Club">Ouran High School Host Club</a></i>, the main character of <a href="/wiki/Haruhi_Fujioka" title="Haruhi Fujioka">Haruhi Fujioka</a> cross-dresses as a boy so that she can work in a host club to pay off a debt she owes to the other members. Haruhi's father, Ranka, is also a cross-dresser.</li> <li>In the manga and live-action series of <i><a href="/wiki/Hana-Kimi" title="Hana-Kimi">Hana-Kimi</a></i> (<i>Hanazakari no Kimitachi e</i>), the main character, Mizuki Ashiya, cross-dresses as a boy to attend an all-boys boarding school to meet her idol, Izumi Sano.</li> <li>In the manga and anime <i><a href="/wiki/Shugo_Chara" class="mw-redirect" title="Shugo Chara">Shugo Chara</a></i>, Nagihiko Fujisaki cross-dresses as his "twin" Nadeshiko out of family tradition. He also cross-dresses in his transformation <i>Yamato Maihime.</i></li> <li>In the manga and anime <i><a href="/wiki/Mermaid_Melody_Pichi_Pichi_Pitch_Pure" class="mw-redirect" title="Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch Pure">Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch Pure</a></i>, one of Michel's servants named Lady Bat, who cross-dresses as a female, is actually a male.</li> <li>In the anime and manga <i><a href="/wiki/Hetalia:_Axis_Powers" title="Hetalia: Axis Powers">Hetalia: Axis Powers</a></i>, Poland is a man and dresses like a woman sometimes.</li> <li>In the anime <i><a href="/wiki/Himegoto" title="Himegoto">Himegoto</a></i>, the main character, Hime Arikawa, cross-dresses to join the Student Council who promises to pay off the debt created by Hime's parents. There are also four other characters who cross-dress, including Hime's brother, Kaguya, HIro Toyotomi, No. 1, and Mitsunaga Oda, all of whom are against the Student Council.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cross-dressing_in_film_and_television&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cross-dressing_in_literature" title="Cross-dressing in literature">Cross-dressing in literature</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cross-gender_acting" title="Cross-gender acting">Cross-gender acting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_transgender-related_topics" class="mw-redirect" title="List of transgender-related topics">List of transgender-related topics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transgender_in_film_and_television" class="mw-redirect" title="Transgender in film and television">Transgender in film and television</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cross-dressing_in_film_and_television&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns 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