Maxi Shield is the stage name of Kristopher Elliot, an Australian drag performer who competed on the first season of ''

RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under ''Drag Race Down Under'' (formerly ''RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under'') is a reality competition television series based on the American television series of the same name produced by World of Wonder and Warner Bros. International Television Pr ...

''.

Career

Maxi Shield performed at the

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closing ceremony and opened the

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in 2002. She competed on the first season of ''

''. She impersonated

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during the

Snatch Game Snatch Game is a comedy challenge recurring across the ''Drag Race'' television franchise and a fixture of the reality competition series. Since the second season of the original American ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' series in 2010, the challenge ha ...

challenge. Maxi Shield was eliminated from the competition after placing in the bottom two of the make-over challenge, then losing a lip-sync battle against Scarlet Adams. She has since appeared at

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. In 2020, Maxi Shield and fellow ''Drag Race'' contestant Hannah Conda attempted to set a new world record for the largest Drag Queen Story Time event at Oxtravaganza. Maxi Shield plays Maxine Fowler in the film ''The Winner Takes It All''.

Personal life

Elliot is based in Sydney. Maxi Shield participated in the "We're Better Than That" campaign to prevent domestic violence, having experienced it as a child.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

* {{Authority control Living people Australian drag queens Drag Race Down Under contestants Entertainers from Sydney Year of birth missing (living people)