Actors who played characters of the other sex

Robin Williams was very successful in 1993 with 'Mrs. Doubtfire ', where he looked like an actor who disguises himself as an elderly babysitter in order to spend time with his children, after separating from his wife, Sally Field.

John Travolta not only changed gender for the 'remake' of 'Hairspray', but was a festive housewife in a chubby outfit.

Hilary Swank achieved fame in 1999 when she played Brandon Teena, a girl who identified herself as a man, in the film that earned her first Oscar, 'Boys Don't Cry'.

This film tells the adventures of an FBI agent (Martin Lawrence) who disguises himself as a grandmother to find the criminals. It is a comedy that collected 200 million, even version 2 was already made.

Pedro Almodóvar caused controversy in 2004 with 'La Mala Educación', where he dealt with issues such as sexual abuse of minors, and whose stellar was in charge of Gael García Bernal, with a Spanish accent and even, dressed as a woman.

Javier Bardem pursues Johnny Depp, as 'Bon Bon' in the acclaimed 'Before Night Falls', based on the autobiography of Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas.

White Chicks, and where are the blondes? o Two blondes of chest hair in Spain is an American comedy film directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans, written and produced by Keenen Wayans, Shawn Wayans and Marlon Wayans. The film was produced by Revolution Studios and distributed by Columbia Pictures .... Two FBI agents, Kevin and Marcus, will have to escort two beautiful young girls, the Wilson sisters, from the airport to their hotel in Hamptons because These women are two possible targets of a kidnapper. Halfway they have an accident with the car and the Wilson sisters scratch and decide not to go to the parties. Before the possibility that the boss gets angry with them they decide to dress as a woman and impersonate them.

Dustin Hoffman disguises himself as a woman in 'Tootsie' to get a role in a soap opera. What makes the lack of work in Hollywood.

Gwyneth Paltrow won an Oscar for 'Shakespeare In Love', 1999, where he dressed as a man because they did not let women perform in plays.

I'm Not There 'tells the life of musician Bob Dylan, played by great figures such as Heath Ledger and Richard Gere. However, the most amazing characterization came neither more nor less than Cate Blanchett.

1982: 1 Oscar: Best Adapted Soundtrack / Musical Comedy / SYNOPSIS: In the Paris of the thirties, Victoria, after the failure of her performance in a cabaret, walks hungry through the streets of the city. He is about to prostitute himself so he can eat, but finally he decides to have a big banquet and then place a beetle on the salad, so he doesn't have to pay for it. There he meets Toddy, a homosexual who offers hospitality and has the brilliant idea of turning the artist into Victor, a famous transvestite who triumphs in the French capital.

After the success of 'Priscilla, Queen of the Desert', in 1995 Hollywood also made its version of three 'transvestites' assumed as women who are stuck in a town in the middle of nowhere, starring Patrick Swayze, Wesley Snipes and John Leguizamo: 'To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar'.

Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis pretended to be women in a women's orchestra, in order to escape the gangsters who were chasing them, in the 1959 film 'Some Like it Hot', where they performed with Marilyn Monroe.

Felicity Huffman, recognized by 'Desperate Housewives', was nominated for many awards, including the Oscar, for her role as transsexual Bree, in the movie 'Transamerica', on the road trip she takes with her son, played by Kevin Zegers .

High heels is a 1991 Spanish film, directed by Pedro Almodóvar, in which Miguel Bosé plays the role of a woman .... Rebeca works as a newscaster in a chain directed by her husband, Manuel. Her husband was the great love of Rebeca's mother, Becky del Páramo, before she left her to pursue her career as a singer, and she doesn't know that Rebeca is Becky's daughter. Fifteen years later the mother returns to Madrid to act and settle some pending accounts, especially the relationship with her daughter Rebeca. The night of his arrival, Becky has dinner with Rebeca and Manuel. Together they will see a Becky impersonator, the Femme Letal transformer. Rebecca tells her mother that when she missed her she would see her impersonator. As relations between Rebeca and Manuel do not go well, he tries to rekindle his old love with Becky, who does not accept his offer, despite the fact that Manuel tells him that he intends to divorce Rebeca. One night, Manuel appears murdered in his chalet.

This film was filmed in 1983, was a winner of a golden globe and an Oscar, Barbara Straisand is interested in studying the Talmud and preparing for the Rabbinate, however it is not easy for her to be a woman, so she decides to impersonate a man.

The openly gay actor Nathan Lane sports the American version of 'The Cage of the Mad', released in 1996 as 'The Birdcage'. In it, along with Robin Williams they play a gay couple that should make their future daughter-in-law's family believe that they are normal.

In a Spanish city of provinces, Adela, a mature spinster, is not satisfied with her sexual identity. The arrival of a new maid will be the trigger for a radical transformation in her life.

Colleen Fitzpatrick, Debbie Harry, the transvestite Divine (1945 - 1988) and Ricki Lake in a scene from the original 'Hairspray', directed by John Waters in 1988.

In 'Bosom Buddies', the program that Tom Hanks starred in for a couple of years in the 1980s with Peter Scolari, we can see him dressed up as a girl and taken to the big screen.

In 1982, Mel Gibson acted in 'The Year of Living Dangerously' in which the tiny actress Linda Hunt played her cameraman, a man of Asian roots. The following year, she became the first actress to win an Oscar for playing a character of the opposite sex.

The place without limits is a 1977 Mexican film, directed by Arturo Ripstein and based on the homonymous novel by José Donoso. The locations for filming the film were located in the municipality of Río Bordo Blanco, in the state of Querétaro, in central Mexico .... La Manuela, a gay transvestite, and his daughter, Japonesita, own a brothel in The small town of Olivo, whose cacique Don Alejo, wishes to sell. Upon returning to the town Pancho, a former protégé of the cacique and client of the brothel, both the Manuela and the Japonesita are trapped by the sexual impulses of that one, "Pancho" being alcoholized really shows his homosexual side with "La Manuela" who suffers an end tragic when "Pancho" is criticized by his compadre for having kissed "La Manuela" on the mouth.

From the award-winning director of The Kiss of the Spider Woman (Héctor Babenco). Murderers, rapists, snitches and drug addicts are the criminals who really controlled the largest prison in Brazil: Carandiru. A select group of 4 prisoners was in charge of their own laws in prison, a mandate that ended in a bloodbath when 300 police officers entered the facility and brutally killed 111 unarmed inmates. This is the true story of that infamous October 1992, a date that shook the entire world: the day of the Carandiru Massacre.