Vinegar Strokes

Last updated

Vinegar Strokes
RuPaul DragCon 2022 (52072214492).jpg
Vinegar Strokes at RuPaul's DragCon LA, 2022
Born
Daniel Jacob

(1984-08-21) 21 August 1984 (age 40)
London, United Kingdom
Education Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (BA)
Occupation Drag queen
Television RuPaul's Drag Race UK (series 1)

Vinegar Strokes (born 21 August 1984) [1] is the stage name of Daniel Jacob, a drag queen from London.

Contents

She has released some songs: "Clamp!" (2019) and "Surrender" (2020).

Early life

Jacob is of Jamaican descent. [2] Before performing in drag, he studied at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts in order to become an actor. However, he did not get any acting jobs until adopting the Vinegar Strokes persona. [3]

Career

She is known for her appearance on the first series of RuPaul's Drag Race UK , as well as performing with Drag Race judge Michelle Visage and US Drag Race winner Bianca Del Rio in the West End Musical Everybody's Talking About Jamie . [3]

After Drag Race, Strokes played Lady Von Fistenberg [4] in the "camp drag murder mystery" play Death Drop . [5] [6]

She has also her music singles to YouTube, as well as an online cooking series. [7]

She voices the character Lucretious in Baldur's Gate 3 (2023). [8]

Filmography

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
2019 RuPaul's Drag Race UK HerselfContestant; Series 1
2021Celebrity Karaoke Club Drag Edition [9] HerselfContestant
Call Me Mother HerselfGuest; 1 episode

Video games

YearTitleRoleNotes
2023 Baldur's Gate 3 Lucretious [8]

Web series

YearTitleRoleNotesRef.
2020Cosmo QueensHerselfGuest appearance [10]
God Shave the Queens HerselfWorld of Wonder docu-series [11]
2022 Bring Back My Girls Herself

References

  1. ↑ @TheOnlyVinegar (21 August 2022). "HELLO 38! #birthday" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  2. ↑ Noyce, Eleanor (20 August 2021). "Vinegar Strokes talks Drag Race UK, camp women and the Big Smoke". Out News.
  3. 1 2 Ling, Thomas (12 December 2019). "Who is Vinegar Strokes? Meet the RuPaul's Drag Race UK queen and West End star". Radio Times. Archived from the original on 16 September 2021. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
  4. ↑ Dibdin, Thom (24 September 2021). "Killer drag". All Edinburgh Theatre. Archived from the original on 24 September 2021. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
  5. ↑ Maidment, Adam (3 October 2021). "Ra'Jah O'Hara and Vinegar Strokes on 'representing queer, black talent'". Manchester Evening News. Archived from the original on 3 October 2021. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
  6. ↑ Anson, John (14 October 2021). "Ru Paul's Drag Race stars in murder mystery Death Drop at Lowry". The Bolton News. Archived from the original on 14 October 2021. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
  7. ↑ Robledo, Jordan (4 September 2020). "Drag Race UK star Vinegar Strokes drops empowering new single SurrenderDER". Gay Times. Archived from the original on 19 October 2020. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
  8. 1 2 Hart, Aimee (1 August 2023). "Vinegar Strokes brings the drama in Baldur's Gate 3". Gaymingmag.com. Archived from the original on 2 August 2023. Retrieved 17 November 2023.
  9. ↑ "Celebrity Karaoke Club returns to ITV2 this year along with drag spin-off series". ITV. 7 May 2021. Archived from the original on 7 May 2021. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
  10. ↑ Jowett, Victoria (21 February 2020). "Vinegar Strokes' makeup transformation is next-level mesmerising". Cosmopolitan.com. Archived from the original on 16 October 2021. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
  11. ↑ Barraclough, Leo. "'RuPaul's Drag Race' Producers Greenlight Two Docu-Series for SVOD (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety.com. Archived from the original on 19 January 2020. Retrieved 19 January 2019.


Gay flag.svg

This biography related to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer history or culture is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.