Michael Dorsey is an unemployed actor with an impossible reputation. In order to find work and fund his friend's play he dresses as a woman, Dorothy Michaels, and lands the part in a daytime drama.

Gold Derby recently named “Tootsie” as the best film from director ... and his alter ego, Dorothy Michaels, becomes a national sensation. Garr plays his girlfriend Sandy, a fellow actress ...

In TOOTSIE, Lukas finds himself as a different ... actor who decides on an extreme makeover and turns into actress Dorothy Michaels what he has to do to get the role he needs.