Jinkx Monsoon
Hera Hoffer (born 18 September 1987), known professionally as Jinkx Monsoon, is an American drag queen, actress, comedian and singer who portrayed Maestro in Doctor Who Season 1.
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Hera was born in Portland, Oregon, and first performed in drag at age 15 at the all-ages Escape Nightclub. Her original drag name was going to be "Heidi Destruction" before settling on Jinkx Monsoon. She attended da Vinci Arts Middle School and Grant High School. Hoffer was raised Catholic, and discovered Russian-Jewish ancestry on her mother's side at the age of 18. Her drag character, Jinkx, is characterized as Jewish as a way of reconnecting with this part of her heritage.
Hoffer worked as a custodian through college and graduated with a BFA in theatre from Cornish College of the Arts in 2010. She has lived in Seattle, Washington since 2006. By October 2018, she moved back to Portland and currently lives in a house named Monsoon Manor.
On 1 April 2024, Jinkx revealed that she had legally changed her name to Hera Hoffer.[1]
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Jinkx competed on and won the fifth season of RuPaul's Drag Race in 2013,[2] and also competed on and won the seventh season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars in 2022, earning her the title of "The Queen of All Queens".[3]
Jinkx has appeared in numerous stage productions, including Hedwig and the Angry Inch,[4] Hairspray,[5] Chicago on Broadway[6] and Little Shop of Horrors.[7]
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- ↑ https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/04/02/doctor-who-drag-race-jinkx-monsoon-new-name/
- ↑ ETOnline list of RPDR winners as of April 2022
- ↑ EW interview with All Stars 7 winner Jinkx Monsoon
- ↑ Seattle Met interview with Jinkx Monsoon
- ↑ (Archive.org) Playbill.com article on Jinkx's casting in Hairspray
- ↑ EW article on Jinkx's casting in Chicago
- ↑ TheatreMania article on Jinkx's casting in Little Shop of Horrors
