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鲁保罗‧安德烈‧查尔斯（英语：RuPaul Andre Charles，1960年11月17日—)，艺名鲁保罗（RuPaul），是一位美国男演员、歌手及变装皇后。 自2009年以来，他制作并主持了实境节目系列“鲁保罗变装皇后秀”，这个节目在2016年为他赢得艾美奖。2019年，他于Netflix的《AJ与皇后》中担任主角，饰演一位变装皇后。

职业生涯

鲁保罗在圣地亚哥出生、长大，后来到亚特兰大学习表演艺术。 最后落脚纽约，他成了纽约夜店的红人。鲁保罗以变装皇后之姿以及单曲“超级名模”走红国际。1996年，他成为MAC化妆品的代言人，为Mac艾滋病基金筹募资金 ，并成为第一个以变装皇后身份为主要化妆品活动宣传的人。 同一年，他从VH1得到了他自己的脱口秀，露波秀。他继而发行专辑，成为录音歌手，至今为止已发行了11张专辑，包括“狐狸精”（1996年）， “冠军”（2009年）、 “舞台”（2011年）、 “天生赤裸”（2014年）和“美国人”（2017年）。

RuPaul Andre Charles (born November 17, 1960) is an American drag queen, television host, singer, producer, writer, and actor. 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.

Born and raised in San Diego, California, RuPaul studied performing arts in Atlanta, Georgia, before relocating to New York City, where he became a popular fixture on the LGBTQ nightclub scene. He achieved international fame as a drag queen with the release of his debut single, "Supermodel (You Better Work)" (1993). RuPaul was 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.

RuPaul's Drag Race was created in 2009 and has gone on to produce eighteen seasons in the United States. The show has also seen success internationally and there are several international variants of the show, including RuPaul's Drag Race UK (2019–present) and Canada's Drag Race (2020–present). There are also several spin-offs of the main show, such as RuPaul's Drag U (2010–2012), RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars, (2012–present), and RuPaul's Secret Celebrity Drag Race (2020–2022). His other television work includes The RuPaul Show (1996–1998), Skin Wars (2014–2016), Good Work (2015), Gay for Play Game Show Starring RuPaul (2016–2017), and RuPaul (2019). In 2018, RuPaul received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to the television industry.

RuPaul has made appearances in films, including Crooklyn (1994), The Brady Bunch Movie, To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (both 1995), and But I'm a Cheerleader (1999), as well as television series, including Girlboss and Broad City (both 2017). He created and starred in the Netflix original series AJ and the Queen (2020). As a recording artist, RuPaul has released fifteen studio albums. He 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).

Early life

RuPaul was born in San Diego on November 17, 1960, the son of Ernestine "Toni" (née Fontenette) and Irving Andrew Charles. His parents were both from Louisiana. He was named by his mother; "Ru" came from roux, the French term for the base of gumbo and other creole stews and soups. According to DNA analysis by Finding Your Roots staff, his ancestry is 70% African and 30% European.

RuPaul was raised in a Catholic household and grew up poor in a "broken home" with an absent father and volatile mother. After his mother discovered his father was having an affair, she poured gasoline on his car and attempted to set the house on fire. He described this traumatic event as a "pivotal moment" which caused him to dissociate from his body and deeply impacted him. After his parents divorced in 1967, he and his three sisters lived with their mother. He attended Patrick Henry High School but dropped out in 10th grade. At 15, RuPaul and his sister Renetta moved to Atlanta, where they studied performing arts.