RuPaul
American drag performer, actor, and musician · United States · On the map · Actors · Born 1960 · age 65
RuPaul Andre Charles is an American drag queen, television host, singer, producer, writer, and actor.
RuPaul is read about 2,336 times a day, in 47 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 6 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 400 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?A life in dates
Stop! That! Train!Film, Producer2024
Hitpig!Film, Polecat (voice)2022
Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3Film, The Mothership (voice)2021
Reno 911!: The Hunt for QAnonFilm, Q2020Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition ProgramAward2019MTV Video Music Award for Video of the YearAwardPrimetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition ProgramAward, 2019Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality-Competition ProgramAward
A Little Late with Lilly SinghSeries, 20192018“I have been discriminated against by white people for being black, by black people for being gay, by gay people for being too fem.”In their wordsRuPaul's Drag Race - S10E13 (2018)Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition ProgramAward, 2018Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality-Competition ProgramAward
ForbiddenFilm, 20182017Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition ProgramAward
Katy Perry: Will You Be My Witness?Film, 20172016“Like I said before, there are windows of openness in our culture. And then our culture closes those windows down just as fast.”In their wordsQuoted by Doug Rule in RuPaul: Ultimate Queen (2016)Emmy AwardAwardPrimetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition ProgramAward, 20162015“Drag is really about mocking identity. Drag is really about reminding people that you are more than you think you are - you are more than what it says on your passport.”In their wordsQuoted by Owen Myers in The subversive genius of RuPaul (2015)
Drag Becomes HimFilm, 20152014“If you don't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?”In their words25 June 2014In: Abiola Abrams The Sacred Bombshell Handbook of Self-Love: The 11 Secrets of Feminine Power, El Dorado Publishing, 25 June 2014, p. 30
BoJack HorsemanSeries, 2014Queen Antonia (voice)2013“All sins are forgiven once you start making a lot of money.”In their words2 September 2013Quoted by Joslyn Pine in: Money and Wealth: A Book of Quotations, Courier Dover Publications, 2 September 2013, p. 209
Lady Gaga & the Muppets Holiday SpectacularFilm, 20132011
2 Broke GirlsSeries, Himself2010“If you have goals and the stick-with-it-ness to make things happen, people will feel threatened by you, especially if your goals don’t include them.”In their words2 February 2010In: Workin' It!: RuPaul's Guide to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Style, HarperCollins, 2 February 2010, p. 62007
The Graham Norton ShowSeries
StarrbootyFilm, 2007Writer, Producer2005
American Dad!Series, (voice)2004
Project RunwaySeries2001
Who Is Cletis Tout?Film, Ginger Markum1999
After StonewallFilm1998
Hollywood SquaresSeries
An Unexpected LifeFilm, 1998Charles1996
Nash BridgesSeries, Simone Dubois1995
A Mother's PrayerFilm, Deacon "Dede"1994
CrooklynFilm, Bodega Woman1989
The SimpsonsSeries, Queen Chante (voice)1975
Saturday Night LiveSeries1960Born17 November 1960People around RuPaul
Michelle Visage Also in RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars
Lucian Piane Produced Champion, Born Naked and Realness
Graham Norton Also in RuPaul's Drag Race UK, series 2
Alan Carr Also in RuPaul's Drag Race UK, series 2
Carson Kressley Also in RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars
Noah Fleiss Also in A Mother's Prayer and An Unexpected Life
Jennifer Elise Cox Also in EDtv and The Brady Bunch Movie
Jenny O'Hara Also in A Mother's Prayer and An Unexpected Life
Lady Bunny Also in RuPaul Is: Starbooty! (1987)
Sherwood Schwartz Produced The Brady Bunch Movie (1995)
Alan Ladd Jr. Produced The Brady Bunch Movie (1995)
Paul Auster Directed Blue in the Face (1996)
Ron Howard Produced EDtv (1999)
Harvey Keitel Produced Blue in the Face (1996)
Harvey Weinstein Produced Blue in the Face (1996)
Melanie Lynskey Also in Girlboss and But I'm a Cheerleader
Christine Taylor Also in The Brady Bunch Movie (1995)
S. Epatha Merkerson Also in A Mother's Prayer and An Unexpected Life
Brian Grazer Produced EDtv (1999)
Raja Gosnell Directed Show Dogs (2018)
Christopher Daniel Barnes Also in The Brady Bunch Movie (1995)
Joie Lee Produced Crooklyn (1995)
Jonah Blechman Produced Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild! (2008)
Yenesi Suárez López Influenced by RuPaul
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Nimona 2023
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar 1995
Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3 2022
Trolls Band Together 2023
But I'm a Cheerleader 2000
Also in Deutsch
Filmography 40
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Television 24
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In their own words 4
, In a culture, you can choose fear or love. It’s been my experience and my observation that humans on this planet feel more comfortable with fear rather than love and openness...
We had a very hostile period [towards drag] after 9/11, especially in America, that was very fear based. And right now, we are enjoying an open window, politically and culturally.
Be very careful of what you allow to infiltrate your consciousness and subconsciousness.
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He produces, hosts, and judges the reality competition series RuPaul's Drag Race and has received several accolades, including 14 Primetime Emmy Awards and a Tony Award, in addition to two Billboard Music Awards, a Critics' Choice Television Award, five GLAAD Media Awards, and a Guinness World Records title. 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." In 2017, RuPaul was included in the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world.
