Maddy Morphosis

{{Infobox person

| name = Maddy Morphosis

| image = DragCon 2023 @ DVSROSS Photgraphy -107 (cropped) (cropped).jpg

| caption = Maddy Morphosis at RuPaul's DragCon LA, 2023

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| birth_place = Fayetteville, Arkansas, U.S.

| television = RuPaul's Drag Race (season 14)

}}

Maddy Morphosis is a drag performer most known for competing on season 14 of RuPaul's Drag Race. Maddy Morphosis is the show's first heterosexual male contestant.{{Cite web|date=2021-12-06|title=Maddy Morphosis Opens Up About Controversial 'Drag Race' Casting|url=https://www.out.com/television/2021/12/06/maddy-morphosis-opens-about-controversial-drag-race-casting|access-date=2022-01-17|website=www.out.com|language=en|archive-date=2021-12-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211211005146/https://www.out.com/television/2021/12/06/maddy-morphosis-opens-about-controversial-drag-race-casting|url-status=live}}{{Cite web |last=Kornhaber |first=Spencer |date=2022-04-20 |title=Who's Watching 'RuPaul's Drag Race' Now? |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2022/04/rupauls-drag-race-season-14-significance/629606/ |access-date=2022-04-26 |website=The Atlantic |language=en |archive-date=2022-04-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220422070637/https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2022/04/rupauls-drag-race-season-14-significance/629606/ |url-status=live }} Since 2023, Maddy Morphosis has hosted a talk show web series Give It to Me Straight.

Early life

Maddy Morphosis is from Fayetteville, Arkansas and worked at Target before appearing on Drag Race.{{Cite web|last=Patton|first=Elaina|date=2022-01-15|title="RuPaul's Drag Race" star Maddy Morphosis on her transformative looks: "I pull a lot from nostalgia"|url=https://www.salon.com/2022/01/15/rupauls-drag-race-maddy-morphosis/|access-date=2022-01-17|website=Salon|language=en|archive-date=2022-01-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220117023139/https://www.salon.com/2022/01/15/rupauls-drag-race-maddy-morphosis/|url-status=live}} Maddy Morphosis dropped out of college.{{Cite web|title=LADY CAMDEN - Give It To Me Straight Ep1 - Hosted by Maddy Morphosis | website=YouTube |url=https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zuDGJJHYerw&feature=youtu.be |language=en|date=January 18, 2023|access-date=July 3, 2023}}

Career

Maddy Morphosis has been doing drag since 2017 and describes her persona as "Arkansas's most overrated drag queen".{{Cite web|date=2021-12-07|title="Drag Race" Just Cast a Straight, Cis Male Contestant. Not Everyone Is Happy|url=https://www.them.us/story/drag-race-first-straight-cis-male-contestant-maddy-morphosis|access-date=2022-01-17|website=them.|language=en-US|archive-date=2022-01-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220108045157/https://www.them.us/story/drag-race-first-straight-cis-male-contestant-maddy-morphosis|url-status=live}} The name is a play on the word "metamorphosis".{{Citation|title=Meet the Queens of Season 14! {{!}} RuPaul's Drag Race| date=3 December 2021 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJqGpwmUOOQ|language=en|access-date=2022-01-17|archive-date=2022-01-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220115073646/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJqGpwmUOOQ|url-status=live}} Maddy Morphosis competed on season 14 of RuPaul's Drag Race as the first heterosexual, cisgender male contestant to appear on the show. Maddy Morphosis started doing drag after high school because it was "a safe space ... to explore my own gender identity". Maddy Morphosis has also said, "For anyone saying that I'm representing an underrepresented group, I appreciate you, but straight men are not a persecuted and excluded group within the drag community."

Maddy Morphosis' entrance look on the first episode of Drag Race was inspired by Guy Fieri. Sam Damshenas of Gay Times wrote "Maddy immediately won over viewers due to her sheer respect for drag and LGBTQ+ culture, as well as her jaw-dropping runway presentations."{{Cite web |date=2022-02-17 |title=Exclusive: Drag Race's Maddy Morphosis addresses her season 14 controversies |url=https://www.gaytimes.co.uk/originals/exclusive-drag-races-maddy-morphosis-talks-untucked-drama-and-unexpected-snatch-game/ |access-date=2022-04-26 |website=GAY TIMES |language=en-GB |archive-date=2022-03-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220314090521/https://www.gaytimes.co.uk/originals/exclusive-drag-races-maddy-morphosis-talks-untucked-drama-and-unexpected-snatch-game/ |url-status=live }} Maddy Morphosis received the Golden Boot award during the reunion episode,{{Cite magazine |last=Nolfi |first=Joey |date=April 15, 2022 |title=The best 'Drag Race' reunion moments: Kornbread's face, Jasmine's yelling, and more |url=https://ew.com/tv/rupauls-drag-race-season-14-reunion-recap-jasmine-daya-fight/ |access-date=2022-04-26 |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |language=en |archive-date=2022-04-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220424153624/https://ew.com/tv/rupauls-drag-race-season-14-reunion-recap-jasmine-daya-fight/ |url-status=live }} and wore an Elvis Presley-inspired outfit during the season finale.{{Cite web |date=2022-04-21 |title=Watch RuPaul Learn She Got Her Own Day During 'Drag Race' Finale |url=https://www.out.com/television/2022/4/21/watch-rupaul-learn-she-got-her-own-day-during-drag-race-finale |access-date=2022-04-26 |website=www.out.com |language=en |archive-date=2022-04-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220425044809/https://www.out.com/television/2022/4/21/watch-rupaul-learn-she-got-her-own-day-during-drag-race-finale |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |title=Finally, the finale of RuPaul's Drag Race crowns its new reigning Queen from Vegas |url=https://www.avclub.com/rupaul-drag-race-finale-review-season-14-episode-16-1848832764 |access-date=2022-04-26 |website=The A.V. Club |date=23 April 2022 |language=en-us |archive-date=2022-04-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220424084316/https://www.avclub.com/rupaul-drag-race-finale-review-season-14-episode-16-1848832764 |url-status=live }}

Personal life

Maddy Morphosis's partner Jennifer Standridge is a former drag performer, known as Miss Liza.{{Cite web |date=2022-02-21 |title=RuPaul's Drag Race: All About Maddy Morphosis's Girlfriend Jennifer |url=https://screenrant.com/rupauls-drag-race-maddy-morphosis-girlfriend-jennifer-standridge/ |access-date=2022-04-26 |website=ScreenRant |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-02-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220227220220/https://screenrant.com/rupauls-drag-race-maddy-morphosis-girlfriend-jennifer-standridge/ |url-status=live }} Maddy Morphosis identifies as heterosexual and cisgender,{{Cite web|title=What To Know About The Most Controversial New 'Drag Race' Queen|url=https://www.bustle.com/entertainment/who-is-maddy-morphosis-instagram-job-controversy-explained|access-date=2022-01-17|website=Bustle|date=7 January 2022 |language=en|archive-date=2022-01-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220107213440/https://www.bustle.com/entertainment/who-is-maddy-morphosis-instagram-job-controversy-explained|url-status=live}} and uses the pronouns she/her when in drag. Maddy Morphosis has said, "I identify as a cisgender straight man, but I'm gender non-conforming in my presentation."{{Cite web |date=2021-12-03 |title=RuPaul's Drag Race: Maddy Morphosis Cast As 1st Straight Cisgender Man |url=https://screenrant.com/rupauls-drag-race-maddy-morphosis-cisgender-straight-man/ |access-date=2022-04-27 |website=ScreenRant |language=en-US}}

Filmography

=Television=

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2022

|RuPaul's Drag Race (season 14)

|rowspan="3"|Herself

|rowspan="2"|Contestant (10th place)

|rowspan="2"|{{Cite web|last=Christopher|first=Rudolph|title="RuPaul's Drag Race" Season 14 Queens to Be RuVealed in VH1 Special|url=http://www.newnownext.com/drag-race-season-14-queen-ruveal-vh1-bitch-who-stole-christmas/11/2021/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-11-23|website=NewNowNext.com|archive-date=2021-11-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211123233615/http://www.newnownext.com/drag-race-season-14-queen-ruveal-vh1-bitch-who-stole-christmas/11/2021/}}

2022

|RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked

2023

|RuPaul's Drag Race (season 15)

| Special guest; Episode: "Reunited!"

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rowspan="2"|2022

|Whatcha Packin'

|rowspan="4"| Herself

|rowspan="2"| Guest

| style="text-align: center;" |{{Citation|title=Whatcha Packin' {{!}} S14 E06 {{!}} RuPaul's Drag Race|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCG7f5hj3sA|language=en|date=February 11, 2022}}

Drag Us Weekly

| style="text-align: center;" |{{Citation|title=RuPaul's Drag Race 14 Maddy Morphosis On Jasmine Kennedie Fight, Elimination, & More|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8lLCIirkLw|language=en|date=February 11, 2022}}

rowspan="2"|2023

|Give It to Me Straight

| Host

| style="text-align: center;" |{{Citation|title=Give It To Me Straight w/ Lady Camden - Hosted by Maddy Morphosis|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuDGJJHYerw|language=en|date=January 18, 2023}}

Death, Drag, and Decadence
{{small|(with Bombae and Evah Destruction)}}

| style="text-align: center;" |{{Cite tweet |user=maddymorphosis |number=1670597604047212544 |title=We're going live!}}

Bring Back My Girls (2023)

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2022

| "GAGA"

| Grace Gaustad

|style="text-align: center;" |{{Cite web|title=Grace Gaustad - GAGA - PILLBX: Episode 1 (Official Music Video)|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIc12T7GKaQ|date=June 16, 2022|website=YouTube|access-date=June 17, 2022}}

Awards and nominations

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style="text-align:center"|2022

| style="text-align:center"|Critics' Choice Real TV Awards

| style="text-align:center"|Best Ensemble Cast in an Unscripted Series
(Shared with the Season 14 cast)

| style="text-align:center"|RuPaul's Drag Race

| {{won}}

| style="text-align:center"|{{cite news|url=https://deadline.com/2022/06/critics-choice-real-tv-awards-winners-rupauls-drag-race-top-chef-2022-1235043990/|title='RuPaul's Drag Race' & 'Top Chef' Lead Critics Choice Real TV Awards|author=Erik Pedersen|website=Deadline Hollywood|date=June 12, 2022|access-date=June 14, 2022}}