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Dax ExclamationPoint cosplaying as Sailor Mars at Flame Con, 2016
Born
Dax Martin
NationalityAmerican
Television RuPaul's Drag Race (season 8)

Dax ExclamationPoint is the stage name of Dax Martin, [1] a drag performer and cosplayer who competed on season 8 of RuPaul's Drag Race . [2]

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Early life

Dax Martin enjoyed comics and watching science fiction and superhero films at a young age. [3] [4]

Career

Dax ExclamationPoint is a drag performer and entertainer. Her looks consist of cosplay. [5] Dax ExclamationPoint is a member of the performance group House of Gunt. She competed on season 8 of RuPaul's Drag Race . Her entrance look was inspired by the Marvel Comics character Storm. [6] She and Laila McQueen were eliminated on the second episode, [7] which featured a musical challenge, [8] after failing to impress RuPaul and judges in a lip-sync to Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive" (1978). [9] [10] This was the second time two contestants on the show were eliminated in the same episode. [11]

Personal life

Martin is based in the U.S. state of Georgia. [12] He has lived in Atlanta [13] and Savannah. [14]

Dax ExclamationPoint is the "drag mother" of Violet Chachki, who won the seventh season of Drag Race. [15] [16] Dax ExclamationPoint has created looks inspired by Chun-li, Lara Croft, Sailor Moon, and Wonder Woman. [17]

Filmography

See also

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