Jamie Clayton

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Jamie Clayton

Jamie Clayton (born January 15, 1978 in San Diego ) is an American actress.

Life

Clayton is a trans woman .

She was born and raised in San Diego. At nineteen, she moved to New York City to begin a career as a makeup artist. In this role, she made her first television appearance in 2010. Together with the other two trans women Laverne Cox and Nina Poon, she gave a makeover on the reality show TRANSform Me Cis women .

In 2011 she had her first acting role in the third season of the television series Hung - Far Better . She was best known for her leading role in the Netflix- produced television series Sense8 , in which she plays a trans blogger in San Francisco .

Her first role in a feature film was in The Neon Demon in 2016 .

Now Jamie has another TV role in Designated Survivor with Kiefer Sutherland . In the third season of the series, she plays the sister-in-law, with a transgender background, of US President Tom Kirkman.

Filmography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Erik Piepenburg: A Transgender Voice. In: New York Times . October 13, 2010, accessed October 1, 2016 .
  2. a b c Jamie Clayton in the Internet Movie Database (English)