Plastique Tiara

Plastique Tiara is the stage name of Duc Nguyen Tran, a Vietnamese-American drag performer, dancer, and model who competed on season 11 of RuPaul's Drag Race and season 9 of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars.

Early life
Duc Tran Nguyen was born in Ho Chi Minh City, and raised in Vietnam. She is a first-generation American immigrant, relocating to the United States at age 11.

Career
Tran is a drag performer, dancer, and model who competed as Plastique Tiara on season 11 of RuPaul's Drag Race. She impersonated Lovely Mimi for the Snatch Game challenge and won the "Farm to Runway" design challenge, placing eighth overall. She was eliminated from the competition in the ninth episode, after placing in the bottom two of an acting challenge and losing a lip sync against Vanessa Vanjie Mateo to "Hood Boy" (2006) by Fantasia. After the show, she joined the Werq the World tour and the rotating cast of RuPaul's Drag Race Live!

In 2019, she released the dance-pop song "Irresistible", which received a music video. Brendan Wetmore of Paper magazine described the video as "a beautiful and expensive dreamlike look into the luxury of being Plastique; beautiful men dance at her command while she whips her silky locks back and forth, her body covered in a jeweled garment". In 2021, Plastique Tiara and Drag Race contestant Kim Chi collaborated on a cosmetics collection.

Plastique Tiara is among the most-followed drag queens on TikTok. She joined the platform in August 2019, and had 11.2 million followers, as of January 2023. She had 2.1 million Instagram followers, as of October 2021. She joined OnlyFans in 2020.

On April 23, 2024, Plastique was announced as one of the eight contestants competing on the ninth season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars.

Personal life
Tran is based in Los Angeles. Previously, he was based in Dallas, until 2019. He is queer.

Plastique Tiara has been described as a "drag daughter" of Drag Race contestant Alyssa Edwards; other members of the Haus of Edwards have included Gia Gunn, Laganja Estranja, and Shangela.

Singles

 * "Irresistible" (2019)

Television

 * RuPaul's Drag Race (season 11)
 * RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars season 9

Music videos

 * "Irresistible" (2019)
 * "Em Nên Yêu Cô Ta" (with Orange) (2024)