Trixie Mattel

Trixie Mattel fascinates me because the cartoonish exterior hides a serious artist. Out of Milwaukee and university-educated, she stacks drag, comedy, songwriting and television hosting into one career without any of them feeling like a side hustle. I especially love that beneath the exaggerated Barbie-pink aesthetic sits a genuine folk musician who can actually play and write. That combination of high camp and earnest melancholy is rare, and it makes her work hit on more than one level. To me she represents self-invention done with both humor and craft, and I respect how openly she built her own lane.

Name (English)

Trixie Mattel

Name (Japanese)

トリクシー・マテル

Reading

とりくしー・まてる

Born

August 23, 1989 (age 36)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Snake

Origin

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Occupation

drag queen / comedian / singer-songwriter / television personality / actor

University

University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

• Official sitehttps://www.trixiemattel.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/trixiemattel/
• Xhttps://x.com/trixiemattel
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trixie%20Mattel
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%88%E3%83%AA%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%86%E3%83%AB
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23905339

Tags

• Wisconsin
• drag queen
• comedian
• singer-songwriter

Last updated

2026-06-17

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.