RuPaul Andre Charles is an American drag queen, actor, model, singer, songwriter, and television personality. Since 2009, he has produced and hosted the reality competition series RuPaul's Drag Race, for which he has received six Primetime Emmy Awards, in 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019. RuPaul is considered to be the most commercially successful drag queen in the United States. In 2017, he was included in the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world. In 2019, Fortune noted RuPaul as "easily the world's most famous" drag queen.
RuPaul's Drag Race is an American reality competition television series produced by World of Wonder for Logo TV, WOW Presents Plus, and, beginning with the ninth season VH1. The show documents RuPaul in the search for "America's next drag superstar." RuPaul plays the role of host, mentor, and head judge for this series, as contestants are given different challenges each week. RuPaul's Drag Race employs a panel of judges, including RuPaul, Michelle Visage, and a host of other guest judges, who critique contestants' progress throughout the competition. The title of the show is a play on drag queen and drag racing, and the title sequence and song "Drag Race" both have a drag-racing theme.
Pandora Boxx is an American drag queen, comedian and reality television personality from Rochester, New York. She is best known as a contestant from the second season of RuPaul's Drag Race and the first season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars.
Jujubee is the stage name of Airline Inthyrath an American drag queen and reality television personality from Lowell, Massachusetts. She is best known as a contestant on Season 2 of RuPaul's Drag Race and RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars.
David Petruschin, better known by her stage name Raven, is an American drag queen and Emmy-nominated make-up artist who is accredited for being the mother of modern drag makeup from Riverside, California. She was a fixture in the Southern California nightclub scene before gaining international prominence for appearing in both the second season of RuPaul's Drag Race and the first season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars. She placed as the runner-up on both seasons. After competing on the show, Petruschin served as a "professor" during all three seasons of RuPaul's Drag U. She has been RuPaul's makeup artist since Drag Race's ninth season and has since become a creative producer of both installments, All Stars and Drag Race.
Karl Philip Michael Westerberg, better known by his stage name Manila Luzon, is an American drag queen, recording artist, and reality television personality. She is best known as the runner-up of the third season of RuPaul's Drag Race and as a contestant on the first and fourth seasons of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars. Her name is a play on words of the capital city (Manila) and the largest island (Luzon) of the Philippines, where her mother was born. Her father is an American of German and Swedish ancestry. Luzon is a native of Minnesota and resides in Los Angeles but also calls New York City "home".
The fourth season of RuPaul's Drag Race began airing on January 30, 2012, with cast members announced November 13, 2011. The winner of season four headlined Logo's Drag Race Tour featuring Absolut Vodka, won a one-of-a-kind trip, a lifetime supply of NYX Cosmetics, and a cash prize of $100,000.
Daniel Anthony Noriega, better known by the stage name Adore Delano, is an American drag queen, singer-songwriter, and television personality. Noriega appeared as a contestant on the seventh season of American Idol in 2008 and later competed as Adore Delano in the sixth season of RuPaul's Drag Race, reaching the final three. Noriega then went on to compete in RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars - Season 2, placing 9th after voluntarily choosing to leave the competition, feeling his heart was not in it. Delano has recorded and released three studio albums: Till Death Do Us Party in 2014, After Party in 2016, and Whatever in 2017.
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars is an American reality competition television series all-star and spin-off produced by World of Wonder for Logo TV, where host and mentor RuPaul invites past contestants of RuPaul's Drag Race to compete for a spot in the Drag Race Hall of Fame.
Monique Heart is the stage name of Kevin Richardson, an American drag queen most known for competing on the tenth season of RuPaul's Drag Race and the fourth season of RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars.
The Vixen is the stage name of Anthony Taylor, an American drag performer, best known for competing on the tenth season of RuPaul's Drag Race and placing seventh. Her appearance on the show was notable for raising a conversation around racial dynamics both among her fellow drag queens and in the show’s fandom. New York magazine named The Vixen one of the top 100 Most Powerful Drag Queens in America in June 2019.
Yuhua Hamasaki is the stage name of Yuhua Ou, a Chinese-American drag queen, singer, actor and reality television personality. She is best known for competing on the tenth season of RuPaul's Drag Race. New York magazine named Hamasaki one of the top 100 Most Powerful Drag Race Queens in America in June 2019.
Monét X Change is the stage name of Kevin Bertin, an American drag queen, singer, and reality television personality. She is known for competing on the tenth season of RuPaul's Drag Race, on which she placed sixth and won Miss Congeniality, and for winning the fourth season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars along with Trinity the Tuck.
Nina West is the stage name of Andrew Levitt, an American drag queen, activist, actor, and singer based in Columbus, Ohio. She rose to national prominence with her appearance on the eleventh season of RuPaul's Drag Race, where she placed sixth and won Miss Congeniality. New York magazine named West one of the top 100 Most Powerful Drag Queens in America in June 2019. She was named the Top Local Artist of 2019 by Columbus Underground.
The twelfth season of RuPaul's Drag Race premiered on VH1 on February 28, 2020.
"Trump: The Rusical" is the fourth episode of the eleventh season of the American reality competition television series RuPaul's Drag Race, which aired on VH1 on March 21, 2019. The episode has contestants deliver Rachel Maddow impressions for the mini challenge, and perform a musical parody of Grease about Donald Trump and the women in his life and cabinet for the main challenge. The musical features choreography by Yanis Marshall, and sees Donald Trump portrayed by former contestant Ginger Minj. Maddow appears as a special guest; Joel McHale and Tiffany Pollard serve as guest judges, alongside regular panelists RuPaul, Michelle Visage, and Ross Mathews.
Snatch Game is a challenge held each season of the American reality competition television series RuPaul's Drag Race, as well as its all-star and spin-off series RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars, Drag Race Thailand, and RuPaul's Drag Race UK. The challenge is a parody of the game show Match Game, except in season four of All Stars, when the format was changed to parody the game show The Dating Game. The challenge tests the contestants' skills at celebrity impersonation and improvisational comedy. It is normally staged approximately halfway through the season, although the number of contestants still in the race at the time of a Snatch Game challenge may vary from season to season.
Divina de Campo is the stage name of Owen Richard Farrow, an English drag queen, known for competing in the first series of RuPaul's Drag Race UK and finishing in second place.
