Tracy Trash is the stage name of Marc-André Leclair,
[Patrick Brunette]
"Ils de jour, elles de nuit : En direct de l’univers des drag queens"
''Fugues
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'', March 21, 2017. a
Canadian
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drag queen and actor most noted for his supporting performance in the 2023 film ''
One Summer
''One Summer'' is a 1983 British television drama serial written by Willy Russell and directed by Gordon Flemyng. It stars David Morrissey and Spencer Leigh as two 16-year-old Liverpool boys from broken homes who escape from their grim lives ...
(Le temps d'un été)''.
Leclair is originally from the
Montreal
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borough of
Pierrefonds-Roxboro.
[ After studying theatre at Collège Lionel-Groulx,][ he began performing as a drag queen at ]Cabaret Mado
Cabaret is a form of theatrical entertainment featuring music, song, dance, recitation, or drama. The performance venue might be a pub, a casino, a hotel, a restaurant, or a nightclub with a stage for performances. The audience, often dining or d ...
in the early 2000s, later telling the press that he got into the scene so that he wouldn't have to support himself between acting jobs by selling sandwiches and coffee.
In 2014 he played Ms. Gracie in a stage production of Puelo Deir's ''Saint Jude du Village''.
In 2017, Leclair participated in ''Ils de jour, elles de nuit'', an Ici ARTV
Ici ARTV (stylized as ICI artv) is a Canadian French language specialty channel owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (known in French as Société Radio-Canada). The channel broadcasts the arts and culture including music, dance, theatr ...
documentary series about drag queens, alongside Barbada de Barbades
Barbada de Barbades is the stage name of Sébastien Potvin,Samuel Larochelle"Barbada de Barbades, une drag queen haute en couleurs" '' Huffington Post Québec'', August 7, 2017. a Canadian drag queen most noted as one of the drag house mothers in ...
, Gaby, Lady Boom Boom
Lady Boom Boom is the stage name of Henri Delisle Langlois, a Canadian drag performer who competed on season 3 of ''Canada's Drag Race''.
Education
Lady Boom Boom is trained in design.
Career
In 2017, she participated in ''Ils de jour, el ...
, Lady Pounana and Rita Baga
Rita Baga is the stage name of Jean-François Guevremont (born May 27, 1987), a Canadian drag queen from Montreal, Quebec,Hugo Dumas"La future reine québécoise du Nord?" '' La Presse'', August 19, 2020. who is most noted as a top three finalist ...
.
In 2021 he played the starring role in a production of Michel Tremblay
Michel Tremblay (born 25 June 1942) is a French-Canadian novelist and playwright.
Tremblay was born in Montreal, Quebec, where he grew up in the French-speaking neighbourhood of Plateau Mont-Royal; at the time of his birth, a neighbourhood wit ...
's play ''Hosanna
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Etymology
The word ''hosanna'' (Latin ', Greek , ...
''.
In 2023 he appeared in ''One Summer'' as Angel, and in a small supporting role in ''Solo
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* ''Solo'' (DC Comics), a DC comics series
* Solo, a 1996 mini-series from Dark Horse Comics
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* Jacen Solo, a Jedi in the non-canonical ''S ...
''. He received a Canadian Screen Award
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nomination for Best Supporting Performance in a Comedy Film at the 12th Canadian Screen Awards
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in 2024, for ''One Summer''."BlackBerry Leads CSA Nominations"
''Northern Stars'', March 6, 2024.
References
External links
*{{imdb name, 5254260
Canadian drag queens
21st-century Canadian LGBT people
Living people
People from Pierrefonds-Roxboro