Willam Belli (/bɛlaɪ/, born June 30, 1982), mononymously known as
Willam, is an Emmy-nominated American actor, drag queen, and recording
artist. Willam came to prominence as a contestant on the fourth season
of RuPaul's Drag Race in 2012, during which she became the first (and,
until 2020, only) contestant to be disqualified from the series. In
June 2019, a panel of judges from New York magazine ranked her ninth
on their list of the top 100 drag stars in America.Before appearing on
Drag Race, Willam worked as an actor, most notably playing the
recurring role of transgender woman Cherry Peck in Ryan Murphy's
medical drama Nip/Tuck. She has continued to perform in a variety of
films, television series and web series, often in drag. In 2018, she
appeared in the critically acclaimed film A Star Is Born. For her
performance on the dark comedy web series EastSiders, she was
nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in
a Digital Daytime Drama Series.Since 2012, Willam has recorded three
albums of comedy music, mostly consisting of parodies of popular
songs. Her second album, Shartistry in Motion, debuted at number 1 on
the Billboard Comedy Albums chart. Between 2012 and 2014, she recorded
several songs as part of the group DWV (alongside drag queens Vicky
Vox and Detox), including the parodies "Chow Down" and "Boy Is a
Bottom", whose music videos were viral successes. Following the
breakup of DWV, Willam formed another drag supergroup, the AAA Girls,
with Courtney Act and Alaska Thunderfuck.
Willam, is an Emmy-nominated American actor, drag queen, and recording
artist. Willam came to prominence as a contestant on the fourth season
of RuPaul's Drag Race in 2012, during which she became the first (and,
until 2020, only) contestant to be disqualified from the series. In
June 2019, a panel of judges from New York magazine ranked her ninth
on their list of the top 100 drag stars in America.Before appearing on
Drag Race, Willam worked as an actor, most notably playing the
recurring role of transgender woman Cherry Peck in Ryan Murphy's
medical drama Nip/Tuck. She has continued to perform in a variety of
films, television series and web series, often in drag. In 2018, she
appeared in the critically acclaimed film A Star Is Born. For her
performance on the dark comedy web series EastSiders, she was
nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in
a Digital Daytime Drama Series.Since 2012, Willam has recorded three
albums of comedy music, mostly consisting of parodies of popular
songs. Her second album, Shartistry in Motion, debuted at number 1 on
the Billboard Comedy Albums chart. Between 2012 and 2014, she recorded
several songs as part of the group DWV (alongside drag queens Vicky
Vox and Detox), including the parodies "Chow Down" and "Boy Is a
Bottom", whose music videos were viral successes. Following the
breakup of DWV, Willam formed another drag supergroup, the AAA Girls,
with Courtney Act and Alaska Thunderfuck.
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