May Lifschitz in particular is familiar to Finnish viewers from the Descendants series.
Actress May Lifschitz. Anders Elmshøj
Iltalehti previously gathered together the most interesting LGBTIQ series and movies of streaming services, and several up-and-coming Actors in the world have talked about their trans background.
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Actor Hunter Schafer was born in 1998. PDO
Hunter Schafer
North Carolina native Hunter Schafer, 23, rose to fame from the super popular Euphoria series. In the series, Schafer plays 17-year-old Jules, who moves to the city as a newcomer with his father. Jules is a brave, experimental and friendly person who, however, struggles with depression and drifts into toxic relationships in the series.
The actor has said that he used his own emotional history for his role. He received praise from both viewers and critics for his performance.
Schafer read a lot of comics and sci-fi books when he was young.
– The main characters are always strange in them. It is probably relatable to many queer or trans kids who have grown up in a place where there is no one like them, Schafer says in an interview with Vice magazine.
The Euphoria star has also worked as a model for several fashion houses, for example Tommy Hilfiger, Versace and Marc Jacobs. He is also known today as a visible LGBT activist.
Schafer will next be seen on the big screen in the latest The Hunger Games-in the sequel to the films, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes.
Zach Barack has also worked as a voice actor. Matt Baron/Shutterstock, AOP
Zach Barack
Zach Barack is a 26-year-old actor and his best-known roles are Zach Spider-Man: Far From Home in the movie. Barack was the first openly trans actor from Marvel Studios.
– I’m a little confused, but I pretend I’m not. I don’t think I’ve fully understood yet… I still can’t explain how meaningful this is to me, Barack commented on his role in 2019 to Variety.
Spider-Man: Far From Home premiered in 2019. The actor’s most recent work is in the Dead End: Paranormal Park series, where he voices a character named Barney.
Lifschitz is familiar to Finns from the Descendants series. Anders Elmshøj
May Lifschitz
Actor May Lifschitz was 19 years old when he got his first movie role Darkest Moon. The Danish-Argentinian star came to the attention of a larger audience with the international series Warrior Nun, which is presented by the streaming giant Netflix.
Born in 1995, Lifschitz started her career as a model and she worked in the modeling business until she was 16 years old.
After Warrior Nun, Lifschitz has acted in the Danish series Ingen vej tilgek and Orkestret. Finnish viewers know the actor from Elisa Viihti’s original series Jälkelaiset. Lifschitz’s path to the Finnish series was through traditional auditions. The screenwriter thought that Lifschitz, who had starred in an international giant production, could be exactly the actor they were looking for in the series.
– We were my brother’s acting in the series Sonny Lindberg with, as I remember, the first duo that was filmed, and an incredible connection was immediately born between us, the actor told Iltalehti in an interview in April.
And this connection was also noticed in the production of the series: Lifschitz and Lindberg were chosen for the series.
Michaela Jaé Rodriguez made history at January’s Golden Globes. CAROLINE BREHMAN, AOP
Michaela Jaé Rodriguez
31 years old Michaela Jaé Rodriguez especially remembered for the Nurse Jackie and Carrie Diaries series. Among the latest works of the actor is the role Tick, Tick… Boom! in the movie that was released last year.
Rodrigues was the first trans woman to be nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. The nomination came from the actor’s performance in the popular Pose series.
The actress was awarded in January at the Golden Globe gala, where she picked up the award for best actress in a drama series. Rodriguez made history as he is known to be the first trans person to win a Golden Globe. The awards have been given out since 1944.
Indya Moore has worked as a model in addition to acting. Image Press Agency/NurPhoto/Shutterstock, AOP
Indya Moore
Pose star Indya Moore is an actress, director, model and activist. The 27-year-old Moore is known especially as an actor, and he will be seen next in the new one Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom in the movie. The film is scheduled to be released in 2023.
Moore has modeled for Gucci and Christian Dior, among others, and has posed for the fashion giant Vogue.
Like Rodriguez, Moore is a familiar face to fans of the Pose series. Moore was involved in the hit series from beginning to end in 2018-2021. The events of Pose take place in New York in the 80s and 90s, and the series follows the lives of a group of people representing the ballroom subculture and their relationships.