# Miz Cracker

Miz Cracker (born April 19, 1984) is the stage name of Maxwell Elias Heller, an American drag queen and television personality. He is best known for placing fifth on the tenth season of RuPaul's Drag Race and for being a runner-up on the fifth season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars.

## Early life

Maxwell Heller was born in Seattle. His parents were former members of the Lubavitch community. He also has a sister, Sylvia. Heller left Seattle at eighteen years old. He attended The Evergreen State College, designing his own major.

## Career

Heller started his career as Brianna Cracker, but, when another performer took the name, he donned the name “Miss Cracker”. However, when trying to make a Facebook account with that name, it denied “Miss” as an appropriate first name, so Heller changed it to “Miz”.
Miz Cracker was announced as one of fourteen contestants competing on the tenth season of RuPaul's Drag Race on February 22, 2018. She won the episode ten main challenge after doing a makeover on Chester See. She was eliminated an episode later after losing a lip sync to "Nasty Girl" by Vanity 6 to eventual runner-up Kameron Michaels.
She has a homemade web series, Review with a Jew, where she recaps episodes of Drag Race, starting from All Stars season three. The series debuted on January 31, 2018. Alexandra Pucciarelli from Alma wrote the series is "always hilarious."
Miz Cracker was in the Billboard web series "Spillin' the Tea" on June 13, 2018. She was introduced as the host of her own WoWpresents web series, "JewTorials" on June 26, 2018.
Miz Cracker has written regularly for Slate since 2014, and in 2016, she received the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association's Excellence in Column Writing award. Miz Cracker was nominated with Aquaria for the "Competition Contestant of 2018" for the 2018 People's Choice Awards.
In early 2019, she finished her one-woman show called "It's Time", which she performed across the UK. Billboard stated, "The show touched on her struggle with addiction during her early 20s, with a little bit of "Cracker-brand" comedy sprinkled in." Miz Cracker was added to the Drag Race "Haters Roast: The Shady Tour" comedy tour with other alumnae in 2019.
On May 8, 2020, Miz Cracker was announced as one of ten drag queens who would compete in the fifth season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars. She won three main challenges, on episodes 4, 6 and 7, and was in the bottom for the snatch game on episode 5. She placed as a runner-up, together with Jujubee.
In 2020, Miz Cracker launched a podcast titled She's a Woman with Studio71.

### Music

Miz Cracker worked with Alexis Michelle, Lady Sinagaga, and Sherry Vine to create "Jappy", a cover of Pharrell Williams' "Happy".

## Personal life

Heller is Jewish and lives in Harlem, Manhattan.

## Discography
### Singles
#### As lead artist

| Title | Year | Album |
| "She's a Woman! (On Top of the World)" | 2020 | Non-album singles |
| "Eight Days of You" (featuring Jujubee) | 2020 | Non-album singles |

#### As featured artist

| Title | Year | Album |
| "Cher: The Unauthorized Rusical" (RuPaul featuring the Cast of RuPaul's Drag Race, Season 10) | 2018 | Non-album single |
| "Alter (Sh)Ego" (Chem Users featuring Miz Cracker) | 2018 | Pride in Ourselves |
| "I'm in Love" (with the Cast of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars, Season 5) | 2020 | Non-album single |
| "Clap Back" (RuPaul featuring the Cast of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars, Season 5) | 2020 | Non-album single |

## Filmography
### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2018 | RuPaul's Drag Race (season 10) | Herself | Contestant (fifth place) |
| 2018 | RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked (season 10) | Herself | |
| 2020 | RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars (season 5) | Herself | Contestant (runner-up) |
| 2020 | RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars: Untucked (season 2) | Herself |
| 2022 | Miz Cracker: Here I Stand | Herself |

### Web series

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2018 | Review with a Jew | Herself | Hostess |
| 2018 | Spillin' the Tea | Herself | |
| 2018 | Bon Appétit | Herself | |
| 2018 | JewTorials | Herself | Hostess |
| 2019 | Cosmo Queens | Herself | |