As twists go, the reveal of singer Dil's big secret in The Crying Game is up there with Bruce Willis being dead and Brad Pitt being imaginary. (Um, spoiler alert.)
Audiences around the world collectively dropped their popcorn in 1992 when the attractive young lady pursued by Stephen Rea's IRA gunman turned out, in fact, to be an attractive young man.
Jaye Davidson, who wasn't an actor, was "discovered" by a casting director at the wrap party for Derek Jarman's Edward II. His striking, androgynous look led to him being cast in The Crying Game, a role that earned him an Oscar nomination.
He capitalised on the success with a role as the god Ra in sci-fi epic Stargate, but quickly withdrew from the public eye and focussed on modelling instead.
Davidson "genuinely hated the fame" and refused to hire an agent in case he was tempted to take bad parts for "loads and loads of cash".
His only appearance in a film since Stargate was as "Nazi Photographer" in the 2009 black comedy short The Borghilde Project. Since then, his Twitter feed shows him to be enjoying life in Los Angeles with a significantly different look to his classically feminine style of the '90s.
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He doesn't say much, but he's posted quite a few pictures of himself, both from back in the day…
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If the pictures he posts are anything to go by, he seems to have reconciled himself with the '90s and regularly posts pics from behind the scenes of his movies as well as retro shots from others of the same era.
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