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Candela Obscura

Candela Obscura is an investigative horror tabletop RPG by Darrington Press, Critical Role's publishing arm, using the six-sided-dice Illuminated Worlds System. Released November 14, 2023, set in the Fairelands, and showcased in Critical Role's monthly actual play anthology.

Candelaria Molfese

Candelaria Molfese (María Candelaria Molfese, born 1991, Buenos Aires) is an Argentine actress, singer, and presenter, known as Camila Torres in Disney's Violetta, later Soy Luna, Barrabrava, and Bake Off Famosos Argentina 2024 winner.

Candi Milo

Candyce Anne Rose Milo (Candi Milo), American voice actress, singer, and comedian born 1961 in Palm Springs; voice of Dexter, Granny (succeeding June Foray), Nick Dean, Snap, and Nora Wakeman; author of Surviving the Odd.

Candi Staton

Candi Staton (Canzetta Maria Staton), also known as the First Lady of Southern Soul, is an American soul, disco, and gospel singer from Hanceville, Alabama, born 1940, known for "Young Hearts Run Free," "Victim," and "You Got the Love."

Candice Bergen

Candice Bergen, born 1946 in Beverly Hills, is an American actress, daughter of ventriloquist Edgar Bergen, Oscar-nominated for Starting Over, and five-time Emmy winner as Murphy Brown.

Candice King

Candice King, born Candice Rene Accola (1987, Houston, Texas), is an American actress and singer known for Caroline Forbes on The Vampire Diaries, The Originals, and Legacies, plus We Were Liars and her Miley Cyrus backup-singer start.

Candice Night

Candice Night (Candice Lauren Isralow, born 1971, Hauppauge, New York) is an American singer-songwriter, lead vocalist and multi-instrumentalist of Blackmore's Night with Ritchie Blackmore since 1997's Shadow of the Moon, and solo artist behind Reflections, Starlight Starbright, and Sea Glass (2025).

Candice Patton

Candice Patton (Candice Kristina Patton), American actress, born Jackson, Mississippi, raised Plano, Texas; SMU theatre graduate. Known for Iris West-Allen on The CW's The Flash (2014–2023) and Tori on The Game; birth year reported as either 1985 or 1988.

Candice Redding

Candice Redding is a Johannesburg-born DJ and music producer in India's EDM scene, with over 250 shows a year, festival sets at Sunburn, and a role on The Remix.

Candice Swanepoel

Candice Swanepoel (born 1988, Mooi River, South Africa) is a South African model, Victoria's Secret Angel from 2010, wearer of the 2013 $10 million Fantasy Bra, and founder of the swimwear brand Tropic of C.

Candid Camera

Candid Camera, created and hosted by Allen Funt, is the American hidden-camera prank show that began as radio's Candid Microphone in 1947, reached TV on August 10, 1948, and ran in versions through 2014.

Candid photography

Candid photography captures subjects unposed and unaware of the camera, overlapping with street and documentary photography. Key facts: Kodak #1 (1888) enabled it, Paul Strand pioneered candid street work, Cartier-Bresson defined the classic style, and studies show candids read as more genuine than posed photos.

Candida Höfer

Candida Höfer, born 1944 in Eberswalde, Germany, is a German photographer of the Düsseldorf School known for large-format color photographs of empty institutional interiors such as libraries, museums, and theaters.

Candida Royalle

Candida Royalle (Candice Vadala, 1950-2015) was an American adult film performer turned feminist director who founded Femme Productions in 1984 to make erotic films from a woman's perspective; her papers are at Harvard's Schlesinger Library.

Candide

Candide (Candide, ou l'Optimisme) is Voltaire's 1759 French satirical conte philosophique mocking Leibnizian optimism through the travels of Candide and Pangloss, ending with "cultivate our garden." Known for its Eldorado episode, Rousseau parallels, and Bernstein's 1956 operetta.

Candide (operetta)

Candide is Leonard Bernstein's 1956 comic operetta based on Voltaire's 1759 satirical novella, with lyrics mainly by Richard Wilbur and a book by Lillian Hellman. A Broadway flop, it was radically revised many times, notably in 1973 and 1988, and is famed for "Glitter and Be Gay" and its overture.

Cândido Portinari

Cândido Portinari, born Candido Torquato Portinari, was a Brazilian painter and muralist best known for the War and Peace panels at the United Nations headquarters.

Candis Cayne

Candis Cayne (born Brendan McDaniel, 1971, Maui, Hawaii) is an American transgender actress and performer; her 2007 role as Carmelita on Dirty Sexy Money made her the first trans actress with a recurring trans character on primetime TV.

Candle Cove

Candle Cove is a 2009 creepypasta short story by Kris Straub, published on Ichor Falls, framed as a forum thread about a fictional 1970s puppet show that was actually static; adapted as Channel Zero season one.

Candle in the Tomb

Candle in the Tomb (鬼吹灯, Ghost Blows Out the Light) is a Chinese tomb-raiding adventure franchise from Tianxia Bachang's 2006 novel series about Hu Bayi, Shirley Yang, and Fatty Wang, adapted into the 2016 Tencent drama and later Pan Yueming seasons and films.

Candle in the Tomb (鬼吹灯之精绝古城)

Candle in the Tomb: The Ancient City of Jingjue (鬼吹灯之精绝古城) is a 2016 Tencent Video web series adapted from Tianxia Bachang's novel, starring Jin Dong and Joe Chen, directed by Kong Sheng, praised for fidelity, and later central to a copyright ruling against the film Chronicles of the Ghostly Tribe.

Candle in the Tomb: The Lost Caverns (龙岭迷窟)

Candle in the Tomb: The Lost Caverns (龙岭迷窟, Gui Chui Deng Zhi Long Ling Mi Ku) is an 18-episode 2020 Tencent Video web series adapted from Tianxia Bachang's Ghost Blows Out the Light novel, directed by Fei Zhenxiang, starring Pan Yueming, Zhang Yuqi, and Jiang Chao, Douban 8.3, first of a five-part consecutive franchise plan.

Candle In The Tomb: The Wrath Of Time (鬼吹灯之怒晴湘西)

Candle In The Tomb: The Wrath Of Time (鬼吹灯之怒晴湘西) is a 2019 Tencent Video prequel web series of Ghost Blows Out the Light, 21 episodes, directed by Fei Zhenxiang, starring Pan Yueming, Gao Weiguang, Xin Zhilei; also a separate 2019 web film by Liu Xuandi.

Candle in the Wind

Candle in the Wind: Elton John and Bernie Taupin ballad from Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973) written for Marilyn Monroe, rewritten in 1997 as Goodbye England's Rose for Princess Diana's funeral; 33 million copies sold.

Candle in the Wind 1997

"Candle in the Wind 1997", also known as "Goodbye England's Rose", is Elton John's charity rewrite of his 1973 song honoring Diana, Princess of Wales, after her death in 1997.

Candlebox

Candlebox, a Seattle rock band formed around 1990-1991, released its self-titled debut on Maverick in July 1993; singles "Far Behind" and "You" drove sales of over four million copies worldwide.

Candlelight Records

Candlelight Records is a British independent extreme metal label founded in 1993 by Lee Barrett, known for early Emperor and Opeth releases and absorbed by Spinefarm in 2016.

Candlemass (band)

Candlemass is a Swedish epic doom metal band formed in Stockholm in 1985 by bassist Leif Edling, whose 1986 debut Epicus Doomicus Metallicus founded the genre.

Candleshoe

Candleshoe (1977) is a Walt Disney comedy-adventure directed by Norman Tokar, adapted from Michael Innes's Christmas at Candleshoe, starring Jodie Foster, David Niven in four roles, Helen Hayes, and Leo McKern.

Candy

Candy: sweet solid or semi-solid confectionery made mainly from sucrose and glucose syrup, spanning hard candy, toffees, fondants, gummies, and fudge. Texture is controlled by boiling temperature and crystallization; the global market is about USD 78.81 billion in 2026.