RuPaul Wanted Visage To Be Co-Judge Since Season 1
Given their creative partnerships, it is not surprising to know that Michelle Visage was RuPaul’s first choice to join the judging panel on the first season of RuPaul’s Drag Race. However, a five-year-contract with a CBS Radio station in Florida prevented Visage from joining the show right away.
In a HuffPost interview, Visage delved into the aftermath. Even when she was offered the third season, her boss still refused prompting her to resort to other measures. “I called up the vice president of CBS radio and told him what was going on, and he said that he had no problem at all with me going”. That is how Visage could finally become a permanent member of RuPaul’s Drag Race for every subsequent season.
Early Life of Mishel Prada
Born and grew up among four kids, Mishel Prada had an interest in acting from a tender age. Raised in the Miami area, Hialeah City, Mishel made her comfortable speaking Spanish in the United States. Mentioning about her family background, her grandparents belong to Dominican, Mexican, Puerto Rican, and French descent. Her parents shifted to the USA after a while.
Mishel Prada with her motherPhoto Credit: Instagram@mishelprada
Prada explored her acting talent at an early age and performed in churches and school productions as well. Nevertheless, she was ready to take a huge step in the film industry.
They Met In The Late 1980s
Before RuPaul’s Drag Race, Michelle Visage and RuPaul first crossed paths due to the former’s voguing skills. For the unacquainted, voguing is a modern house dance style that originated in the 1980s but also traces its origins to the Harlem ballroom scene of the 1960s.
In an interview with Vulture, Visage broke down how her voguing impressed nightlife personality Susanne Bartsch who would then ask her to vogue at her events and parties. As RuPaul would work at Bartsch’s parties, Visage befriended him eventually. She’s unsure about the exact year though and feels that it might have been 1987 or 1988.
Regular Musical Collaborations
Before her fame as a radio and TV personality, Michelle Visage was known as a singer due to her stint as a member of the dance-pop trio Seduction. So, it would come as no surprise that Visage is still willing to lend her vocals whenever her bestie records her own original music.
Before RuPaul’s Drag Race queens recorded songs, RuPaul had been dropping music albums since the 1990s, some of which boast collaborations with featured artists like Michelle Visage. Starting with two tracks on the 1997 Christmas album Ho, Ho, Ho, Visage has been a guest on eight of RuPaul’s tracks with the last one being “Category Is…” from the 2016 album Butch Queen.
Relationship Status – Private
The young American actress, Mishel Prada is an expert in keeping her personal life under the curtains, however not this time. Going through her back Instagram photos, she has uploaded a lot of close pictures with Pico Cole. On 15th July 2012, she captioned her picture with Cole saying “missing him”. After that, on August 6, she uploaded a photo with Cole kissing him on his cheek and holding his hands which surely speculated her relationship with Pico.
Mishel Prada with her mystery boyfriend, Pico Cole on 8 August 2012Image Credit: Instagram@mishelprada
After that, Prada went back with a kissing picture on 8th November 2015 where she is seen kissing a guy in the metro. However, she has only used the emojis of hearts for her caption. Although she has not talked about her relationship at present, she could be dating a guy mysteriously. For now, she seems to be focusing on her career. She is free of rumors and controversies as of 2019.
Social Media
Being active in the entertainment field, the actress is naturally active on social media as well and uses it to promote her work and communicate with her fans. She has Twitter and Instagram accounts, and is followed by almost 2,000 people on the former and 12,500 on the latter. Some of her posts include photos of herself and her colleagues, and photos of food. Prada is outspoken about being a feminist, and isn’t afraid to air her views of her media pages.
Actress
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bachelor Lions | 2017 | post-production | Charlotte |
| Corporate | 2017 | TV Series post-production | Trudy the Trustafarian |
| The Two Dogs | 2017 | Gina Good | |
| Fear the Walking Dead: Passage | 2016-2017 | TV Series | Gabi |
| Return to Sender | 2016/III | Short | Mari |
| Tell Me How I Die | 2016 | Nurse Rivera | |
| Benjamin Troubles | 2015 | Nova | |
| There Is a New World Somewhere | 2015 | Angela | |
| Mari Celeste | 2015 | Short | Mari |
| Eat Spirit Eat | 2013 | Ana | |
| A Handful of Dust | 2011 | Short | Winnie |
| Day’s Eye | 2008 | Short | Judy (as Mishel Aguiar) |
They’re Almost “Soulmates”
The professional duo has proven their worth in showbiz and given the fact that their friendship spans decades, it is a given fact that RuPaul and Michelle Visage are friends who only get closer with every passing year.
In fact, Visage has gone on to express how she feels RuPaul is like a soulmate to her. To quote Visage from a Yahoo Entertainment interview, “There’s soulmates on different levels, just because you’re not lovers doesn’t mean you can’t be soulmates. Ru’s my soulmate as a best friend, we complete each other in many ways.” RuPaul has similar emotions as he told Deadline, “I know that we complement each other”.
RuPaul’s Drag Race Wasn’t Their First Joint Venture
While Visage and RuPaul are known as the judges and producers of the different reality TV shows within the RuPaul’s Drag Race universe, their first professional collaboration dates back to 1996. New-age fans might not be aware that The RuPaul Show was a variety/talk show back then with Michelle Visage sharing co-hosting duties with the titular host.
The VH1 original lasted for 100 episodes and was one of the first shows to be hosted by an openly gay person. Celebrity interviews, comedic skits and field reports were some of the show’s staple elements. Even though Visage and RuPaul were friends since the ’80s, it was this show that proved their creative genius when they joined forces. The rest is history.
Early Acting Career
Latter Acting Career
In the following year, the actress had her most prominent projects, firstly working on “Tell Me How I Die”, a thriller movie about a group of college students who take part in a clinical drug trial which gives them horrifying visions of their own deaths. As the group tries to escape their fate, they discover that the killer is among them and also has the ability to foresee the future. In the same year, she had yet another project, starring in “Fear the Walking Dead: Passage”, a TV series nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards, which focuses on the story of survivors of a zombie apocalypse who stick together in order to survive the subsequent events, but which received a mediocre response from audiences. Prada then had two minor projects, before in 2018 landing the role of Emma in “Vida”, a series in which she collaborated with actors such as Melissa Barrera, Ser Anzoategui, Chelsea Rendon and Carlos Miranda. Overall, Mishel has had 13 acting gigs so far, and no doubt there are more to come.
Career Highlights – Vida
After reaching the age of 23, Mishel Prada decided to step up in her career professionally. At first, she played minor roles. During the time, she was also assisting as a concierge at the Roosevelt Hotel in LA. Following, she founded Damarosa, a female art collective where the foundation observes the artistic work and pushes to open the literature field of women.
Mishel Prada posing with other guys for 2019 Winter TCA at The Langham Huntington on February 12, 2019Image Credit: Getty Images
After struggling for a long, Prada received a lead role in the American horror TV series, Fear the Walking Dead. Unexpectedly, she got nominated for the Creative Arts Emmy Award. During the event, she got identified with the famous casting director of Stranger Things, Carmen Cuba who later introduced her to the production of Starz drama, Vida.
Season 2 of Vida, Official Trailer
https://youtube.com/watch?v=GmANN8aoTtE
After trying for two roles of Lyn and Cruz, Mishel finally offered the role of Emma. The TV series was directed by Alonso Ruizpalacios. The series concludes the story of tow Mexican-American sisters who go back to their childhood home in LA after the death of their mother. The role of another sister is played by Melissa Barrera, a Mexican actress, and singer. On 2nd May 2019, the trailer of the second season of Vida was released.
RuPaul Had Been Supportive Right From The Start
In a Cheatsheet article on their friendship, an anecdote bears testimony to how supportive and reassuring the friends have been for each other. Even though Visage and RuPaul had met each other at parties and ballroom events in the past, Visage met him again during a music seminar in New York during her post-Seduction career.
After spotting RuPaul in the green room, Visage walked up to him and asked if he remembers her. RuPaul’s reaction went like, “B***h, I have been watching you for years. You are a f*****g superstar, of course I know who you are.” Fast forward a few years and they were already best friends by then.
Bio
Mishel Prada, best known for being a TV Actress, was born in United States on Saturday, December 23, 1989. TV actress who played Gabi in Fear the Walking Dead: Passage from 2016 to 2017 and Emma in Vida in 2018. She has over 8,000 followers on her mishelprada Instagram account.
Family: She is from the United States. Mishel Prada father’s name is under review and mother unknown at this time. We will continue to update details on Mishel Prada’s family.
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