Glamorous star Miss Benny comes out as a trans woman
Miss Benny has opened up about her gender identity. The actress, who currently stars in Netflix’s comedy-drama Glamorous, came out as a transgender woman in an op-ed for Time Magazine. “The gap is quickly closing between now and June 22: the day that my television series Glamorous will come out on Netflix,” she wrote. “And along with it, I too will come out as the transgender woman I’ve been privately living as for the last few years.
I’m a proud person, but admittedly it’s still a bit daunting to say those words publicly.” Benny plays Marco Mejia on Glamorous, a gender non-conforming queer person who lands a job at a renowned cosmetics company – led by Kim Cattrall’s Madolyn Addison.
Originally a pilot for the CW, Benny was cast as the lead character in 2019. A stressful bout of development hell soon followed and the series was shopped around, before Netflix snatched it up with a new cast.
Ahead of filming, Benny revealed that she confided in creator Jordan Nardino about her gender identity, and they decided to adjust Marco’s narrative in the show to reflect her own. “I met him at a bar in Silver Lake, and I told him about my transition.
