Note: Major movie stars--people such as Marilyn Monroe, Julia Roberts, Clark Gable or George Clooney--are mega-celebrities with many highly acclaimed motion pictures to their credit.
Some other actors, although they might have appeared in numerous movies and TV shows, have had but one major, iconic movie success with which they are always identified. Examples follow of this second type of movie celebrity.
Recalling the remarkable acting job done by Linda Hunt a few years earlier in The Year of Living Dangerously, Jaye Davidson (born in California as Alfred Amey) won Best Supporting Actor at the 1993 Academy Awards for portraying a transgendered woman in the English/Irish movie The Crying Game (1992).
In this film about the IRA in Northern Ireland, Davidson plays the role of Dil, love interest of an IRA member. This suspenseful movie is also a really, really unusual love story.
After 1992, Davidson was in a handful of other far less acclaimed movies but by the end of the 1990s gave up acting to work in the London fashion business.
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