Trixie Mattel

Trixie Mattel is an American drag queen, television personality, singer-songwriter, DJ, and entrepreneur originally from Marinette County, Wisconsin. Born Brian Michael Firkus on August 23, 1989, she adopted her stage name to channel her lifelong love of Barbie dolls, building a persona around exaggerated 1960s-influenced eye makeup and a blend of comedy with acoustic and folk-country music. As a Virgo with a life-path number of 4, she embodies the disciplined, foundation-building energy often associated with that numerology—evident in her methodical career expansion across multiple entertainment mediums [F6, birth]. In 2015, she competed in the seventh season of RuPaul's Drag Race and returned to win the third season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars. Alongside Katya Zamolodchikova, she co-created the comedy duo Trixie and Katya, starring in the World of Wonder web series UNHhhh (2016–2023) and its Viceland spin-off The Trixie & Katya Show (2017–2018), later hosting the Netflix review series I Like to Watch (2019–present) and the podcast The Bald and the Beautiful (2020–present). Her discography spans four studio albums: Two Birds (2017) and One Stone (2018) both charted on the Billboard Folk Albums chart, Barbara (2020) featured an electro-folk sound, and The Blonde & Pink Albums (2022) was a power-pop double album. Her 2020 musical comedy special, Trixie Mattel: One Night Only, earned a Critics' Choice Television Award nomination. Beyond music, she produced and starred in the renovation docuseries Trixie Motel (2022–2024), documenting the opening of her own Palm Springs resort. Co-authored with Zamolodchikova, her first book, Trixie and Katya's Guide to Modern Womanhood (2020), became a New York Times bestseller. She founded, owns, and operates Trixie Cosmetics, launched in 2019, and runs a YouTube channel featuring beauty content and collaborations with celebrities including Iggy Azalea, Nicole Byer, and Margaret Cho. In 2021–2023, she appeared as a judge on Queen of the Universe.