In the opening scene of Lee Pace’s first major screen credit, 2003’s Soldier’s Girl, his character Calpernia Addams introduces herself in voice-over: “You may think that I’m the center ...

But perhaps most fascinating is Pace’s reflection on his first feature film role, Soldier’s Girl, in which he played the transgender woman, Calpernia Addams.

Persuasive performances help. Troy Garity is acutely on point as earnest-but-slow Barry, Lee Pace (who is male) eerily perfect and evocative as Calpernia, and Shawn Hatosy a seething, volcanic ...

Lee Pace has spent two decades inhabiting other people’s stories, ... Calpernia Addams, the trans lover of a murdered U.S. soldier in the 2003 Showtime film Soldier’s Girl.

Lee Pace in his dressing room at the Neil Simon Theatre, New York, May 12th, 2018. Pace, who portrays a gay man in the Tony-nominated Broadway production “Angels in America” seven times a week ...