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Elizabeth Coffey is an American actress. She had notable roles in two of the early films of John Waters. Coffey is a post-operative transsexual woman.
Because of her film roles for John Waters, she is considered one of the Dreamlanders, Waters' ensemble of regular cast and crew members.
At the time of her first film appearance in John Waters' Pink Flamingos (1972), Coffey was a pre-operative male-to-female transsexual who had already undergone hormone therapy to develop breasts and female features. She played the part of a beautiful woman who turns the tables on a perverted flasher/voyeur by exposing and wagging her penis at him, sending him fleeing in shock.
Coffey had gender reassignment surgery completed a week after her scene was filmed, and appears as a female character in Waters' next film, Female Trouble (1974). In that film she played Earnestine, the sorrowful death row cellmate of Dawn Davenport (Divine).
Coffey is currently married, with one adopted child. She still remains in contact with John Waters and has done a lot of work for AIDS-related charities.
Also, she was in Walk Like A Man music video featuring Divine covering her Adam's apple and danced with a man and later walked out with Divine at the end.
^ "Elizabeth Coffey". IMDb. Retrieved 2008-08-27.
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Because of her film roles for John Waters, she is considered one of the Dreamlanders, Waters' ensemble of regular cast and crew members.
At the time of her first film appearance in John Waters' Pink Flamingos (1972), Coffey was a pre-operative male-to-female transsexual who had already undergone hormone therapy to develop breasts and female features. She played the part of a beautiful woman who turns the tables on a perverted flasher/voyeur by exposing and wagging her penis at him, sending him fleeing in shock.
Coffey had gender reassignment surgery completed a week after her scene was filmed, and appears as a female character in Waters' next film, Female Trouble (1974). In that film she played Earnestine, the sorrowful death row cellmate of Dawn Davenport (Divine).
Coffey is currently married, with one adopted child. She still remains in contact with John Waters and has done a lot of work for AIDS-related charities.
Also, she was in Walk Like A Man music video featuring Divine covering her Adam's apple and danced with a man and later walked out with Divine at the end.
^ "Elizabeth Coffey". IMDb. Retrieved 2008-08-27.
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Female Trouble (1974)
, 1h32Directed by John Waters
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Horror, Crime
Themes Films about families, Christmas films, Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole, Edith Massey, Cookie Mueller
Roles Earnestine
Rating70%
Dawn Davenport, a regular troublemaker at her all-girls school, receives a failing Geography grade and a sentence of writing lines for fighting, lying, cheating, and eating in class.
Pink Flamingos (1972)
, 1h33Directed by John Waters
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Horror, Crime
Themes Films about families, Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Musical films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Divine, John Waters, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Edith Massey, Mink Stole
Roles Chick with a Dick
Rating60%
Underground criminal Divine lives under the pseudonym "Babs Johnson" with her mentally ill, egg-loving mother Edie, delinquent son Crackers, and traveling companion Cotton. They all live together in a pink trailer on the outskirts of Phoenix, Maryland, in front of which can be found a pair of eponymous plastic pink flamingos. After learning that Divine has been named "the filthiest person alive" by a tabloid paper, jealous rivals Connie and Raymond Marble set out to destroy her career but come undone in the process.