Trace Lysette is an American actress, producer, recording artist, and trans advocate best known for her recurring role as Shea on Amazon's critically acclaimed series Transparent, and Tracey in the feature film Hustlers. She also featured in the Netflix documentary Disclosure as herself. She has also guest starred in other productions such as Midnight Texas, Pose, Drunk History and Tarell Alvin McRainy’s David Makes Man A product of the New York City house and ball culture scene, she has and continues to be a voice for trans and other marginalized folks in Hollywood and beyond.
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Biography from TMDB.
- October 2, 1987 (39)
- Lexington, Kentucky, USA
- Actor and producer
- 12 on MovieCove · 17 credits in all
Known for
What are Trace Lysette's films like?
Across a limited sample of 3 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Self and Bonds.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 3
Light 1 · Serious 2 · Dark 0
Grounded 1 · Stylized 1 · Heightened 1
Gentle 0 · Charged 3 · Intense 0
Steady 1 · Shifting 2 · Whiplash 0
Straight-faced 2 · Some laughs 1 · Funny 0
A split, not a type: Slow burn 1 · Even-paced 2 · Relentless 0
Casual 1 · Engaged 2 · Full focus 0
A split, not a type: Easy watch 0 · Affecting 2 · Heavy 1
Resolved 0 · Open-ended 3 · Ambiguous 0
Roles they play
- Heroas Monica in Monica (2022)
Moods and endings
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Trace Lysette's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 9 of their 12 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.
Subscription and free streaming for Trace Lysette's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
17 credits, 12 with a MovieCove page; 6 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.
Night After Night (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2026)
Dope Queens (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)
Monica(2022)
Midcredits score: 58th percentile of all films
Quantum Leap(2022)
Midcredits score: 30th percentile of all shows
Q-Force(2021)
Midcredits score: 34th percentile of all shows
Venus as a Boy(2021)
Midcredits score: 32nd percentile of all films
Trans in Trumpland (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2021)
Transparent: Musicale Finale (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)
Hustlers(2019)
Midcredits score: 58th percentile of all films
David Makes Man(2019)
Midcredits score: 60th percentile of all shows
Pose(2018)
Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all shows
Coffee House Chronicles(2016)
Midcredits score: 16th percentile of all films
Blunt Talk(2015)
Midcredits score: 62nd percentile of all shows
Coffee House Chronicles (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)
Transparent(2014)
Midcredits score: 71st percentile of all shows
Drunk History(2013)
Midcredits score: 77th percentile of all shows
Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all shows
Career shape
Star power in the 75th percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 17 titles from 1999 to 2026; peak year 2023.
Film career
Peak 2023 · steadily prominent in film for years. Film roles by billing, audience size and rating; 25+ votes. A show carries a single first-air date, so shows are not on the curve.
- 2014Screen debut· Transparent
- 2019First film· Hustlers
- 2023First top-billed film· Monica
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
Awards
Nominated for an Independent Spirit Award in 2024, Best Lead Performance.
Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.
How do Trace Lysette's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 45th percentile, the median of all 4; across a limited sample of 3 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 61st percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up3
- 50th to 74th5
- 25th to 49th3
- Below 25th1
Shape of the crowd
3 of their 12 titles are Crowd Pleasers.
- Universally Loved2
- Divisive1
- Cult Classic2
- Crowd Pleaser3
- Broadly Agreed1
- Mixed3
Reviewers score the acting 82/100 in their films, across 3 reviewed titles; fans 95, detractors 47. The element that speaks to their work as an actor.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.