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.jpg) RuPaul at the 2019 California Hall of Fame Ceremony in Sacramento, California | |
| Born | RuPaul Andre Charles November 17, 1960 San Diego, California, U.S. |
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| Years active | 1982–present |
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Georges LeBar (m. 2017) |
| Relatives | Cory Booker (cousin) |
| Awards | Full list |
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| Website | rupaul |
RuPaul Andre Charles[1][2] (born November 17, 1960) is an American drag queen, television personality, actor, singer, producer, and writer. He[a] produces, hosts, and judges the reality competition series RuPaul's Drag Race and has received several accolades, including 14 Primetime Emmy Awards, three GLAAD Media Awards, a Critics' Choice Television Award, two Billboard Music Awards, and a Tony Award. He has been dubbed the "Queen of Drag" and is considered the most commercially successful drag queen in the United States, with Fortune saying that he is "easily the world's most famous drag queen."[5] in 2017, RuPaul was included in the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world.[6][7]
Born and raised in San Diego, RuPaul later studied performing arts in Atlanta, before relocating to New York City, where he became a popular fixture on the LGBT nightclub scene. He achieved international fame as a drag queen with the release of his debut single, "Supermodel (You Better Work)", which was included on his debut studio album Supermodel of the World (1993). RuPaul became a spokesperson for MAC Cosmetics in 1994, raising money for the Mac AIDS Fund and becoming the first drag queen to land a major cosmetics campaign. He later received his own television talk show on VH1 titled The RuPaul Show (1996–1998), while co-hosting the morning radio show on WKTU with Michelle Visage.
RuPaul's Drag Race was created in 2009 and has gone on to produce sixteen seasons in the United States. The show has also seen success internationally. There are several international variants of the show, including RuPaul's Drag Race UK (2019–present) and Canada's Drag Race (2020–present). This has also inspired several spin-offs of the main show, including RuPaul's Drag U (2010–2012), RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars, (2012–present), and RuPaul's Secret Celebrity Drag Race (2020–2022). He has also featured as a host on other reality series, such as Skin Wars (2014–2016), Good Work (2015), and Gay for Play Game Show Starring RuPaul (2016–2017).
RuPaul has made appearances in films, including Crooklyn (1994), The Brady Bunch Movie (1995), To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995), and But I'm a Cheerleader (1999), as well as television series, including Girlboss (2017), Broad City (2017), and Grace and Frankie (2019). He created and starred in his own Netflix original series AJ and the Queen (2020). RuPaul has also published four books: Lettin' It All Hang Out (1995), Workin' It! RuPaul's Guide to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Style (2010), GuRu (2018), and The House of Hidden Meanings (2024). As a recording artist, he has released fifteen studio albums. He received a Tony Award for Best Musical as a producer for the musical A Strange Loop (2019).[8]
- ^ "Rupaul A Charles, (212) 929-2363, age 61 from 155 Perry St #3A, New York, NY 10014 - Radaris". radaris.com. Retrieved October 21, 2022.
- ^ "RuCo, Inc, Brooklyn NY - Company Profile | BizStanding". bizstanding.com. Retrieved October 21, 2022.
- ^ RuPaul's Drag Race [@RuPaulsDragRace] (September 3, 2013). ""You can call me he. You can call me she. You can call me Regis & Cathy Lee; I don't care! Just as long as you call me" - @RuPaul #RuFerence" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ RuPaul (1995). Lettin' It All Hang Out: An Autobiography. Hyperion Books. ISBN 978-0-7868-6156-9.
- ^ Klein, Jessica (September 24, 2019). "As 'RuPaul's Drag Race' Expands to the U.K., DragCon Shines Light on Its Mainstream Success". Fortune. Retrieved November 18, 2019.
- ^ Klein, Jessica (September 24, 2019). "As 'RuPaul's Drag Race' Expands to the U.K., DragCon Shines Light on Its Mainstream Success". Fortune. Archived from the original on November 27, 2019. Retrieved June 29, 2020.
- ^ Campbell, Naomi. "RuPaul". Time. Archived from the original on April 3, 2020. Retrieved June 29, 2020.
- ^ Jacobs, Julia (June 12, 2022). "Tony Awards 2022 Live Updates: 'A Strange Loop' Wins Best Musical". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved June 13, 2022.
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