Learn how this Emmy-winning host producer and television personality became the world s most famous drag queen. RuPaul Andre Charles always knew he was meant to be a performer. Even as a young child he loved to dress up and imitate the glamorous women he saw on television. When he turned fifteen he began studying theater in a performing arts school in Atlanta and never looked back. Ru developed his drag-queen personality and launched his career in the 1980s. He now hosts and judges the widely popular and long-running show RuPaul s Drag Race which has raised the profile of the art of drag and drag queens around the world.