RuPaul's Drag Race Star Jinkx Monsoon Set to Play Doctor Who's Musical Villain Maestro

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Credit: Bad Wolf | BBC Studios | Disney+ | Screenshot from official Disney+ trailer for Doctor Who Holiday Special: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB87uGgoKBg | Fair Use For Promotional Purposes


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Credit: Bad Wolf | BBC Studios | Disney+ | Screenshot from official Disney+ trailer for Doctor Who Holiday Special: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB87uGgoKBg | Fair Use For Promotional Purposes

The long-running sci-fi series is adding RuPaul's Drag Race star Jinkx Monsoon to their cast list. Meet Doctor Who's musical villain, Maestro!

RuPaul's Drag Race's Jinkx Monsoon is a Musical Wonder

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Jinkx Monsoon is a singer, drag performer, actor, and writer who won in RuPaul's Drag Race season 5 and RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars season 7.

Best known for The Jinkx and DeLa Holiday Special (2020), Happiest Season (2020), and Blame the Hero (2019), she can change into just about anything.

As a chameleon of an actress, she can outperform just about anyone, even her own self.

Monsoon will be continuing her role as Audrey in an off-Broadway production of Little Shop of Horrors before she rejoins Broadway's Chicago on June 27 as Matron "Mama" Morton.

This also includes her musical performance, as shown when she played a couple of roles in Helluva Boss, a musical series connected to Prime Video's Hazbin Hotel.

Here's who Jinkx Monsoon plays in the upcoming Doctor Who season 14 premiere.

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Meet Doctor Who's Musical Villain: Maestro

Doctor Who season 14 is set to be led by Ncuti Gatwa as the fifteenth Doctor with his companion Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson).

An exclusive clip from Doctor Who season 14 episode 2 titled The Devil's Chord lets fan get their first look at Monsoon's latest role as the musical villain, Maestro.

Similar to how Monsoon wore the frizzy orange hairdo in RuPaul's Drag Race, the "godlike element" Maestro also wears a bedazzling outfit that matches the character she exuded.

Maestro happens to be the god of music, a "maleficent god", as described in Doctor Who Magazine. "A deity with daddy issues," who also happens to be The Devil's Chord's titular villain.

The Devil's Chord episode sees the Doctor and Ruby traveling back to 1960s London to meet The Beatles, only to find themselves having to stop the god of music from changing the course of his

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The first two episodes of Doctor Who season 14 premieres Friday on Disney+ at 7 PM ET.

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