RuPaul Andre Charles (born November 17, 1960), known mononymously as RuPaul, is an American drag queen, television judge, musician, and model. Best known for producing, hosting, and judging the reality competition series RuPaul's Drag Race, he has received several accolades, including eleven Primetime Emmy Awards, three GLAAD Media Awards, a Critics' Choice Television Award, two Billboard Music Awards, and a Tony Award. Description above from the Wikipedia article RuPaul, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• Canada's Drag Race: All Stars — Self - RuMail, Creator
• Drag Race Down Under vs The World — Creator
• Drag Race México: Latina Royale — Creator
• 2026RuPaul's Drag Race UK: Rewind — Executive Producer
• 2026Stop! That! Train! — President Judy Gagwell, Producer
• Drag Race Philippines: Slaysian Royale — Self - RuMail, Creator
• 2025RuPaul's Drag Race Live - 1,000th Show — Self, Director
• 2024Ayesha's Extravaganza — RuPaul
• Drag Race España All Stars — Production Executive, Creator
• 2024Hitpig! — Polecat (voice)
• 2024OZI: Voice of the Forest — Gurd (voice)
• RuPaul's Drag Race Global All Stars — Self - Host / Judge, Creator
• RuPaul's Drag Race Live Untucked — Creator
• 2023Darlo todo — Material de archivo
• Drag Race Belgium — Creator
• Drag Race Brasil — Creator
• Drag Race Germany — Executive Producer, Songs, Creator
• Drag Race Mexico — Creator
• Drag Race Sverige: Untucked! — Creator
• Drag Race Sweden — Creator
• 2023Nimona — Nate Knight (voice)
• 2023Trolls Band Together — Miss Maxine (voice)
• Bring Back My Girls — Executive Producer
• Canada's Drag Race: Canada vs The World — Self - RuMail, Creator
• Drag Race France — Creator
• Drag Race Philippines — Self - RuMail, Creator
• Drag Race Philippines Untucked! — Creator
• RuPaul's Drag Race UK vs The World — Self - Host, Creator
• The Tiny Chef Show — Announcer (voice)
• 2022Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3 — The Mothership (voice)
• Chicago Party Aunt — Gideon (voice)
• Drag Race Down Under — Self - Host / Judge, Creator
• Drag Race España — Creator
• Drag Race Italia — Self (uncredited), Executive Producer, Creator
• 2021Dragging the Classics: The Brady Bunch
• Painted with Raven — Self - Guest Judge, Executive Producer
• Queen of the Universe — Executive Producer, Creator
• 2021Reno 911!: The Hunt for QAnon — Q
• 2021The Bitch Who Stole Christmas — Hannah Contour
• AJ and the Queen — Robert Lee / Ruby Red, Executive Producer, Writer, Creator
• Canada's Drag Race — Self - RuMail, Executive Producer, Creator
• Drag Race Holland — Self - RuMail, Creator
• 2020RuPaul's Drag Race: Bring Back My Ghouls — Himself (archive footage), Executive Producer
• Secret Celebrity RuPaul's Drag Race — Self - Host, Creator
• Amphibia — Mr. X (voice)
• RuPaul's Drag Race UK — Self - Host / Judge, Executive Producer, Creator
• 2019Someone Great — Hype
• 2019Stonewall Outloud — Narrator (voice)
• The World's Best — Judge
• Drag Race Thailand — Creator
• Drag Tots — Corny the Unicorn (voice)
• 2018Forbidden
• 2018RuPaul's Drag Race Holi-Slay Spectacular — Self - Host, Executive Producer
• 2018Show Dogs — Persephone (voice)
• Girlboss — Lionel
• The Trixie & Katya Show — Executive Producer
• Animals. — Dr. Labcoat
• 2016Hurricane Bianca — Weatherman
• Not Today, Bianca — RuPaul
• 2016Straight Outta OZ
• The Real O'Neals — RuPaul
• Adam Ruins Everything
• Grace and Frankie — Benjamin Le Day
• Harvey Beaks — Jackie Slitherstein (voice)
• BoJack Horseman — Queen Antonia (voice)
• Broad City — Marcel
• RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars — Self - Host / Judge, Theme Song Performance, Creator
• Happy Endings — KrisJahn
• RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked — Self - Narrator, Executive Producer
• RuPaul's Drag U — Himself, Creator
• RuPaul's Drag Race — Self - Host, Executive Producer, Creator
• Under the Hood — Self - Narrator (voice) (uncredited), Creator
• 2008Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild! — Tyrell Tyrelle
• 2008Starz Inside: Ladies or Gentlemen — Narrator
• Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World — Tyler (voice)
• 2007Starrbooty — Starrbooty / Cupcake, Writer, Producer
• 2006Encounters 1: The Heat of the Moment — Director
• 2006Queer Duck: The Movie — Theme Song Performance
• Ugly Betty — Rudolph
• 2006Whitepaddy — Radio Kissin'
• 2006Zombie Prom — Miss Strict
• American Dad! — (voice)
• The Comeback — RuPaul
• 2002The Groovenians — Champagne Courvoisier
• 2001Who Is Cletis Tout? — Ginger Markum
• 2000But I'm a Cheerleader — Mike
• Son of the Beach
• 2000The Eyes of Tammy Faye — Narrator
• 2000The Truth About Jane — Jimmy
• 1999EDtv — RuPaul
• Popular — Sweet Honey Chile
• Time of Your Life
• 1998An Unexpected Life — Charles
• Hercules — Rock Guardian (voice)
• V.I.P. — Pepe Dutille
• 1997Shantay — Shantay
• Veronica's Closet — Brett
• 1996A Very Brady Sequel — Ms. Cummings
• Nash Bridges — Simone Dubois
• Sabrina, the Teenage Witch — Witch Judge
• 1995A Mother's Prayer — Deacon "Dede"
• 1995Blue in the Face — Dancer
• 1995Red Ribbon Blues — Duke
• 1995The Brady Bunch Movie — Mrs. Cummings
• 1995To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar — Rachel Tensions
• 1994Crooklyn — Bodega Woman
• Sister, Sister — Marje
• 1993Fertile La Toyah Video Magazine: Inaugural Issue
• 1993RuPaul's Christmas Ball — Host, Writer
• Walker, Texas Ranger — Bob
• 1992Inferno — Party Guest
• Real Sex
• The Word
• 1989Nelson Sullivan
• 1989Pickle Surprise
• The Simpsons — Queen Chante (voice)
• 1987Starbooty Trilogy — Starbooty
• 1984Trilogy Of Terror — Sheila Jones, Writer
• Saturday Night Live — Self - Host, Danielle (uncredited)
• American Porn Star — Cherry Grind
• Drag Race Japan — Creator
• Drag Race South Africa — Creator
• Just Between Friends
• RuPaul's Drag Race UK All Stars — Self - Host / Judge, Creator

Appearances as themselves (85)

• 2026Judge Judy: Unfiltered, Unforgettable — Self
• 2025Dancing In the Light — himself
• Hollywood Squares — Self
• 2024Bob Mackie: Naked Illusion — Self
• 2023Commitment to Life — Self (archive footage)
• Lingo — Self - Host
• 2023The Stroll — Self (archive footage)
• The Super Models — Self (archive footage)
• Celebrity Lingo — Self - Host
• 2022PRIDE: To Be Seen - A Soul of a Nation Presentation — Self (archive footage)
• 2021Being BeBe — self
• Celebrity Wheel of Fortune — Self - Contestant
• 2021Workhorse Queen — Self (archival footage)
• How's Your Head, Hun? — Self
• Muppets Now — Self
• RuPaul's Drag Race: Vegas Revue — Self
• 2020The Big New Year's In — Herself
• A Little Late with Lilly Singh — Self
• RuPaul — Self - Host
• 2019SpongeBob’s Big Birthday Blowout — Self
• 2019The Queens — Self
• The X Change Rate — Self - Special Guest
• 2019Trixie Mattel: Moving Parts — Self
• 2019Wig — Self
• 2018BEAT. Contour. Snatched. How Drag Queens Shaped the Biggest Makeup Trends — Self
• Follow Me — Self
• 2018The Advocate Celebrates 50 Years: A Long Road to Freedom — Self
• The Alec Baldwin Show — Self
• 2017Katy Perry: Will You Be My Witness? — Self
• 2017Susanne Bartsch: On Top — Self
• Kocktails With Khloé — Self
• Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party — Self
• Match Game — Self - Panelist
• Skin Wars: Fresh Paint — Self - Host
• The $100,000 Pyramid — Self
• To Tell the Truth — Self - Panelist
• Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter — Self
• 2015Drag Becomes Him — Self (archive footage)
• 2015RuPaul's Drag Race: Green Screen Christmas — Self
• RuPaul's Drag Race: RuVealed — Self
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self, Self - Guest
• The Muppets — Self
• Hey Qween! — Self
• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver — Self
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self
• Skin Wars — Self - Judge
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self - Guest
• Trailblazer Honors — Self - Speaker
• Alyssa's Secret — Self - Guest
• 2013Lady Gaga & the Muppets Holiday Spectacular — Self
• RuPaul Drives... — Self - Host
• 2013The Out List — Herself (archive footage)
• Finding Your Roots — Self
• RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars: UNTUCKED — Self - Narrator
• 2 Broke Girls — Himself
• Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen — Self - Guest
• The Graham Norton Show — Self - Guest
• 2006More Dangerous: The Making of Michael Lucas' 'Dangerous Liaisons' — Self
• The One Show — Self
• 2005Dangerous Liaisons — Self - Non-sexual Role
• 2005Disco: Spinning The Story — self
• Project Runway — Self - Guest Judge
• The Soup — Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self - Guest Host
• 2002Sylvester: Mighty Real — Self
• 2000VH1 Divas 2000: A Tribute to Diana Ross — Self
• 1999After Stonewall — Self
• Hollywood Squares — Self - Panelist
• 1998Motown 40: The Music Is Forever — Self
• The RuPaul Show — Self - Host
• The View — Self
• 1996Fled — Himself
• The Rosie O'Donnell Show — Self
• 1995Catwalk — Self
• MADtv — Self
• 1995The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special — Self
• 1995Wigstock: The Movie — Self
• 1994Nelson Sullivan's World Of Wonder — Self
• 1993A Simple Matter of Justice — Self
• 1993Out There — Self
• 1989Nelson Sullivan's Video Diaries — Himself
• MTV Video Music Awards — Self
• 1984RuPaul & Felecia Having Fun in New York - October 18, 1984 — Himself
• American Playhouse — Self (archive footage)
• The Emmy Awards — Self