Del Rio, Bianca

• Haylock, Roy

Roy Haylock, better known by the stage name Bianca Del Rio, is an American drag queen, comedian, actor, and costume designer. She is known for winning the sixth season of RuPaul's Drag Race. He was born June 27, 1975 in Gretna, LA and is of Cuban and Honduran descent. He started acting and designing costumes for plays at West Jefferson High School. After high school, he decided to move to New York City, where he worked at Bloomingdale's for nine months before returning to Louisiana. Haylock has primarily worked as a costume designer. In 1993, he won a Big Easy Entertainment Award for Best Costume Design for Snow Queen at the age of 17. He has been nominated for 13 Big Easy Entertainment Awards for costume design, winning six. Haylock has also made costumes for the New Orleans Opera. In New Orleans, Haylock started performing as a drag artist in 1996 in the play Pageant. Haylock moved to New York City after Hurricane Katrina and worked as a costumer for different shows, ballet and opera, having worked for Barbara Matera, Ltd.. He also performed in drag as Bianca Del Rio. In December 2013, Logo announced that Bianca Del Rio was among 14 drag queens who would be competing on the sixth season of RuPaul's Drag Race. She quickly became a front-runner among the contestants and a fan favorite, eventually reaching the top three. On May 19, 2014, Del Rio was crowned the winner of the sixth season. Since her time on Drag Race, Del Rio has written and toured several stand-up shows, including It's Jester Joke (2019), which also made her the first drag queen to headline at Wembley Arena. She has also performed as a host for various international tours, most notably Werq the World. In 2018, she published her first book, Blame It On Bianca Del Rio: The Expert On Nothing With An Opinion On Everything. In June 2019, a panel of judges from New York magazine placed Del Rio first on their list of "the most powerful drag queens in America", a ranking of 100 former RuPaul's Drag Race contestants. With over 2.5 million Instagram followers, she is the most followed contestant from RuPaul's Drag Race.

Gretna, LA
New Orleans, LA
New York City, NY

Drag Queen
Costume designer
Actor
Comedian

RAD, July 2008 version. Canadian Council of Archives.

Catalogued January 2022.

1) Archival material
2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bianca_Del_Rio
3) https://www.thebiancadelrio.com/about