Here are two portrayals that come to mind that are so unrealistic: Rebecca Romijn on Ugly Betty and Famke Jannsen on Nip/Tuck.
![Rebecca Romijn Rebecca Romijn](https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EE_8WZK1okE/RkR6Vid3NgI/AAAAAAAAAJo/M3UPq75kyc8/s320/rromijn.jpg)
![Famke Jannsen Famke Jannsen](https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EE_8WZK1okE/RkR6PCd3NfI/AAAAAAAAAJg/nYoy9r7Sxt0/s320/fjannsen.jpg)
Both are television portrayals, but the film industry is just as guilty using actresses to portray trans-woman, for example, Raquel Welch in Myra Breckenridge and Felicity Huffman in Transamerica.
Male actors should portray transwoman. Such portrayals would be more realistic if men filled the T-girl roles. Few actresses are the right size to realistically portray a male-to-female transperson. Their voices are not convincing and in boy mode, their mannerisms are not convincing.
![Cillian Murphy in Breakfast on Pluto Cillian Murphy in Breakfast on Pluto](https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EE_8WZK1okE/RkSPnyd3NhI/AAAAAAAAAJw/9uMFPwznfYQ/s320/cillianmurphy.jpg)
![Lee Pace in Soldier's Girl Lee Pace in Soldier's Girl](https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EE_8WZK1okE/RkSQnid3NiI/AAAAAAAAAJ4/w_XAOyQKIV0/s320/lpace.jpg)
When male actors do portray transwoman, the portrayals are very realistic. Cillian Murphy in Breakfast on Pluto, Lee Pace in Soldier's Girl and Johnny Depp in Ed Wood are examples of successful portrayals of actors portraying transwomen.
Can you imagine someone like Drew Barrymore portraying Ed Wood? I think not.
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Wearing Venus (Source: Venus) |
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Ed Wood femulating in the 1953 film 📺 Glen or Glenda. |