About Jinkx Monsoon
Hera Hoffer , best known under the stage name Jinkx Monsoon, is an American drag queen, actress, singer and comedian. She has been noted for her celebrity impersonations, quick wit, and musical theatre-inspired performance style.
In 2013, she won the fifth season of RuPaul's Drag Race. In 2022, with an all-winners cast, she won the seventh season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars, becoming the first two-time winner of the show across its iterations. She made her Broadway debut in 2023.
She has also pursued a career in music, releasing two studio albums titled The Inevitable Album and The Ginger Snapped . In film, Monsoon appeared with her collaborative partner BenDeLaCreme in the holiday film The Jinkx and DeLa Holiday Special which was later released on Hulu. In television, Monsoon appears in the WOW Presents Plus original Sketchy Queens, a series she created alongside Liam Krug, and the BBC / Disney+ series Doctor Who as the villain Maestro.
Hoffer 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 janitor through college and graduated with a BFA in theater from Cornish College of the Arts in 2010. She had lived in Seattle, Washington up until 2018. In October 2018, she moved back to Portland and currently lives in a house named Monsoon Manor.
After moving to Seattle from Portland, Hoffer and creative partner Nick Sahoyah wrote and starred in multiple Funny or Die webisodes titled Monsoon Season in which she played Jinkx Monsoon as an overbearing, substance addled, near-psychotic mother to Sahoyah's character, Kamikaze Monsoon. In 2011, Hoffer appeared in the Wes Hurley film Waxie Moon in Fallen Jewel.
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