Plastique Tiara
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Plastique Tiara at RuPaul's DragCon LA, 2019
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| Born | Trần Nguyễn Đức (1997-04-11) April 11, 1997 (age 27)
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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| Television | RuPaul's Drag Race (season 11) RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars (season 9) |
| Website | lifeinplastique |
Plastique Tiara is the stage name of Duc Nguyen Tran,[1][2] a Vietnamese-American drag performer, dancer, and model who competed on season 11ofRuPaul's Drag Race and season 9ofRuPaul's Drag Race All Stars.
Duc Tran Nguyen was born in Ho Chi Minh City,[2] and raised in Vietnam.[1] She is a first-generation American immigrant,[3] relocating to the United States at age 11.[4]
Tran is a drag performer, dancer, and model who competed as Plastique Tiara on season 11ofRuPaul's Drag Race. She impersonated Lovely Mimi for the Snatch Game challenge[5] and won the "Farm to Runway" design challenge,[6] placing eighth overall.[2][7] She was eliminated from the competition in the ninth episode,[8] after placing in the bottom two of an acting challenge and losing a lip sync against Vanessa Vanjie Mateo to "Hood Boy" (2006) by Fantasia.[9][10] After the show, she joined the Werq the World tour and the rotating cast of RuPaul's Drag Race Live![11][12]
In 2019, she released the dance-pop song "Irresistible", which received a music video.[7][13] Brendan Wetmore of Paper magazine described the video as "a beautiful and expensive dreamlike look into the luxury of being Plastique; beautiful men dance at her command while she whips her silky locks back and forth, her body covered in a jeweled garment".[8] In 2021, Plastique Tiara and Drag Race contestant Kim Chi collaborated on a cosmetics collection.[14]
Plastique Tiara is among the most-followed drag queens on TikTok. She joined the platform in August 2019,[15] and had 11.2 million followers, as of January 2023.[16] She had 2.1 million Instagram followers, as of October 2021.[14] She joined OnlyFans in 2020.[17][18]
On April 23, 2024, Plastique was announced as one of the eight contestants competing on the ninth seasonofRuPaul's Drag Race All Stars.[19]
Tran is based in Los Angeles.[15] Previously, he was based in Dallas, until 2019.[1] He is queer.[3]
Plastique Tiara has been described as a "drag daughter" of Drag Race contestant Alyssa Edwards;[9] other members of the Haus of Edwards have included Gia Gunn, Laganja Estranja, and Shangela.[20]
