Yes, American actor Jared Leto won the Academy Award for best supporting actor for his role in Dallas Buyers Club (2013). In the film, set in the mid-1980s during the early years of the AIDS epidemic, Leto portrayed a transgender woman, Rayon, who has the disease and tries to obtain medication for herself and others.
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