She is an American drag performer, actor, television personality, and singer who came to international attention as a contestant on the ninth season of RuPaul’s Drag Race and also the fourth season of RuPaul’s Drag Race All-Stars. She was placed 20th on the list of the most powerful drag queens in America, a ranking of 100 former Drag Race contestants. The list was made by a panel of judges from New York magazine in June 2019. She began working as a professional drag queen around ten months before filming RuPaul’s Drag Race.
She is well known for using her drag as a way to represent Latin American culture on stage and make drag more accepted in Latin American culture. Her castmates mockingly dubbed her “Fan Favorite”, due to their view that she was unsuitable for a congenial title. She also appeared in the sixth episode of the twenty-fourth season of America’s Next Top Model, in a photo shoot challenge. Additionally, she played Judy Reyes’s character Quiet Ann in a season-one recap of Claws.
She is also the host of her own WoWPresents internet show, “La Vida De Valentina” which ran for seven episodes in 2017. She also portrayed Angel Dumott Schunard in the musical Rent, Rent: Live, a Fox’s televised production. Moreover, she made a cameo appearance in In the Heights, during “No Me Diga” in 2021. In December 2018, she released her debut single, “A Prueba de Todo”.
