Ingenue

Ingenue (pronounced "on zha new") is a drag actress best known for playing 17 characters on the TV series "Roads To Keystone," which won "Best Makeup" at the 2019 Indie Series Awards. She accepted the show's award from the Lou Diamond Phillips. On RTK, the amnesiac and agoraphobic character "Annie Lester" looks most like Ingenue, but she also plays everyone from the town matriarch "Gail Sedgewick" to the town villain "Lisa White" to the town loon "Stanley Hess." Having started her career as the first weekly, drag nightclub hostesses in Los Angeles in May 2005, Ingenue made the leap to acting, after honing her improv skills on those West Hollywood stages. Therefore, she played several nightclub hostesses and herself in such shows as "Joan and Melissa: Joan Knows Best?", "Little Women: LA," "The Burn with Jeff Ross," and "Chasing The Saturdays." She then played an office manager of sorts in Funny or Die's skit "Working Women Read Ivanka Trump's Women Who Work." Making her way to movies, she stars in the upcoming feature film "Loren and Rose," playing Rose' Martini, a drag queen obsessed with Jacqueline Bisset's character Rose Martin. It is written and directed by Russell Brown and also stars Kelly Blatz and Erin Cahill. Immediately after production ended, Ingenue was cast in her dream role of "Layla," in the upcoming short film "Marmalade," playing opposite fellow drag actors Kelly Mantle, Vicky Vox, JP Moraga, and Honey Davenport. It is written and directed by Jordan Hinson and produced by Lanie Guidry and Cecile Cubilo, an all-female dream team for sure. Fun facts about Ingenue? She won back-to-back WeHo Awards (the Oscars of the West Hollywood, California, community) for "Outstanding Drag Diva" in 2008 and 2009. She graduated as her high school Class Valedictorian and received her Bachelor's in Business Administration (BBA) from the number 1 undergraduate business program in the country ... The University of Michigan - Ann Arbor's Ross School of Business. Her acting idols include Tracey Ullman, who gave her permission to play both male and female characters, Gary Oldman, and Nicole Kidman. Mr. Aaron Spelling and his shows inspired her to become a writer-producer, and Tyler Perry is the person she wants to emulate, playing a heightened version of herself in movies and writing and producing guilty pleasure television shows and movies.