Plastique Tiara

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Plastique Tiara
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Plastique Tiara at RuPaul's DragCon LA, 2024
Born
Duc Tran Nguyen

(1997-04-11) April 11, 1997 (age 27)
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Television RuPaul's Drag Race (season 11)
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars (season 9)
Website lifeinplastique.com

Plastique Tiara is the stage name of Duc Tran Nguyen, [1] [2] a Vietnamese-American drag performer, dancer, and model who competed on season 11 of RuPaul's Drag Race and season 9 of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars . With over 14 million followers on social media, she is the most followed queen in the entire Drag Race franchise.[ citation needed ]

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Early life

Duc Tran Nguyen was born in Ho Chi Minh City, [2] and was raised in Vietnam by her grandparents. [1] She is a first-generation American immigrant, [3] [4] and relocated to the United States at age 11. [5]

Career

Tran performing as part of the RuPaul's Drag Race All-Stars tour, 2024 Plastique Tiara during RuPaul All-Stars Tour, Caesars Windsor, 2024-09-15 02.jpg
Trần performing as part of the RuPaul's Drag Race All-Stars tour, 2024

Trần is a drag performer, dancer, and model who competed as Plastique Tiara on season 11 of RuPaul's Drag Race . She impersonated Lovely Mimi for the Snatch Game challenge [6] and won the "Farm to Runway" design challenge, [7] placing eighth overall. [2] [8] She was eliminated from the competition in the ninth episode, [9] after placing in the bottom two of an acting challenge and losing a lip sync against Vanessa Vanjie Mateo to "Hood Boy" (2006) by Fantasia. [10] [11] After the show, she joined the Werq the World tour and the rotating cast of RuPaul's Drag Race Live! [12] [13]

In 2019, she released the dance-pop song "Irresistible", along with a music video. [8] [14] Brendan Wetmore of Paper magazine described the video as "a beautiful and expensive dreamlike look into the luxury of being Plastique; beautiful men dance at her command while she whips her silky locks back and forth, her body covered in a jeweled garment". [9] In 2021, Plastique Tiara and Drag Race contestant Kim Chi collaborated on a cosmetics collection. [15]

Plastique Tiara is among the most-followed drag queens on TikTok. She joined the platform in August 2019, [16] and had 11.2 million followers, as of January 2023. [17] She had 2.1 million Instagram followers as of October 2021. [15] She joined OnlyFans in 2020. [18] [19]

On April 23, 2024, Plastique was announced as one of the eight contestants competing on the ninth season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars . [20]

She has been featured on the cover of L’Officiel Vietnam. [4]

Personal life

Trần is based in Los Angeles. [16] Previously, she was based in Dallas, until 2019. [1] She is queer. [3]

Plastique Tiara has been described as a "drag daughter" of Drag Race contestant Alyssa Edwards; [10] other members of the Haus of Edwards have included Gia Gunn, Laganja Estranja, and Shangela. [21]

Trần created her alter ego Plastique Tiara after the My Little Pony character Diamond Tiara, but later changed the Diamond to “Plastique”. [4]

Discography

Singles

Filmography

Television

YearTitleRoleNotesRef
2019 RuPaul's Drag Race HimselfContestant [6]
2019 RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked
2024 RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars season 9
2024 RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars: Untucked

Music videos

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