1. Jaye Davidson, The Crying Game
Admit it, the last thing you expected when IRA gunman Stephen Rea tenderly disrobed Davidson was to come eye to eye with his manhood. We were all taken in. Yes, director Neil Jordan helped matters by casting a newcomer with a unisex name, but it’s Davidson who sold us on the idea that his transvestite hairdresser was all woman, all the time. With his exotic androgynous features, slender frame, and feminine wiles, Davidson looked better as a sexy young thing than he did as a shorthaired boy dressed in cricket whites. The result: one of cinema’s biggest and best twists.