As twists go, the reveal of singer Dil's big secret in The Crying Game is up there with ... What to Read Next Jaye Davidson, who wasn't an actor, was "discovered" by a casting director at the ...

Writer-director Neil Jordan’s 1992 drama The Crying Game centers on Jody (Forest ... Dil (newcomer Jaye Davidson), who is revealed to be a transgender woman. The Irish-born Jordan and his ...

The Crying Game is about many things, but mostly it’s about an Irish Republican Army man who falls for a woman who is not a woman. Stephen Rea is that man, and Jaye Davidson is that woman.

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Indeed, when The Crying Game opened on Nov. 25 ... and a sultry London hairdresser (Jaye Davidson) who, halfway through the film, exposes herself to be a, well, himself. ”To me, it was like ...

Jaye Davidson was born Alfred Amey on March ... as transgender "Dil" in the 1992 suspense-drama thriller film The Crying Game, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor ...

Writer-director Neil Jordan's 1992 drama The Crying Game centers on Jody (Forest Whitaker ... with Jody's partner, Dil (newcomer Jaye Davidson), who is revealed to be a transgender woman.