page_title: BeBe Zahara Benet
hierarchical_section_title: BeBe Zahara Benet
caption_attribution_description: English: Bebe Zahara Benet at NUBIA NYC in 2020. Photo by Randall Starr.
context_page_description: Nea Marshall Kudi Ngwa better known by his stage name BeBe Zahara Benet, is a Cameroonian-American drag performer, television personality, and musician best known for winning the first season of the reality-television drag competition RuPaul's Drag Race in 2009. In 2018, he returned as a surprise contestant for the third season of RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars, placing in the top four.
  As of 2019, he stars in the TLC transformational makeover television series Dragnificent, as the event planning expert.
context_section_description: Nea Marshall Kudi Ngwa (born March 20, 1981) better known by his stage name BeBe Zahara Benet, is a Cameroonian-American drag performer, television personality, and musician best known for winning the first season of the reality-television drag competition RuPaul's Drag Race in 2009. In 2018, he returned as a surprise contestant for the third season of RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars, placing in the top four.
  As of 2019, he stars in the TLC transformational makeover television series Dragnificent, as the event planning expert.
caption: Benet at NUBIA NYC in 2020
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