page_title: Willam Belli
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caption_attribution_description: Rupaul's DragCon 2019
context_page_description: Willam Belli, mononymously known as Willam, is an Emmy Award nominated American actor, drag queen, and recording artist. Willam came to prominence when he competed on the fourth season of RuPaul's Drag Race in 2012, during which he became the first ever, and until 2020, only contestant to be disqualified from the series. In June 2019, New York magazine published the results from their panel of judges and writers which ranked her in the top twenty Drag Race superstars.
  Before appearing on Drag Race, Willam worked as an actor, most notably playing the recurring role of transgender woman Cherry Peck in Ryan Murphy's medical drama Nip/Tuck. He has continued to perform in a variety of films, television series and web series, often in drag. In 2018, he appeared in the critically acclaimed film A Star Is Born directed by Bradley Cooper. For his performance on the dark comedy web series EastSiders, he was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Digital Daytime Drama Series.
  Since 2012, Willam has recorded three albums of comedy music, mostly consisting of parodies of popular songs.
context_section_description: Willam Belli (/bɛlaɪ/, born June 30, 1982), mononymously known as Willam, is an Emmy Award nominated American actor, drag queen, and recording artist. Willam came to prominence when he competed on the fourth season of RuPaul's Drag Race in 2012, during which he became the first ever, and until 2020, only contestant to be disqualified from the series. In June 2019, New York magazine published the results from their panel of judges and writers which ranked her in the top twenty Drag Race superstars.
  Before appearing on Drag Race, Willam worked as an actor, most notably playing the recurring role of transgender woman Cherry Peck in Ryan Murphy's medical drama Nip/Tuck. He has continued to perform in a variety of films, television series and web series, often in drag. In 2018, he appeared in the critically acclaimed film A Star Is Born directed by Bradley Cooper. For his performance on the dark comedy web series EastSiders, he was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Digital Daytime Drama Series.
  Since 2012, Willam has recorded three albums of comedy music, mostly consisting of parodies of popular songs. His second album, Shartistry in Motion, debuted at number 1 on the Billboard Comedy Albums chart. Between 2012 and 2014, he recorded several songs as part of the group DWV (alongside drag queens Vicky Vox and Detox), including the parodies "Chow Down" and "Boy Is a Bottom" whose music videos found viral success. Following the breakup of DWV, Willam formed another drag supergroup, the AAA Girls, with Courtney Act and Alaska Thunderfuck.
caption: Willam at RuPaul's DragCon LA in 2019
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