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Rupa Lakshmi
Rupa Lakshmi, also credited as V.S. Roopa Lakshmi, is an Indian actress who works predominantly in Telugu cinema, playing mothers and aunts, and became widely known through the 2023 film Balagam.
Rupal Patel
Rupal Patel (born 1975, Mumbai), Indian television actress, NSD graduate, best known as Kokila Modi in Saath Nibhaana Saathiya (2010–2017, 2162 episodes); also Yeh Rishtey Hain Pyaar Ke, Tera Mera Saath Rahe, and Hindi films including Mammo. Distinct from other people named Rupal Patel in finance and design.
Rupali Ganguly
Rupali Ganguly, Indian television actress, daughter of director Anil Ganguly; Monisha in Sarabhai vs Sarabhai (2004–2006) and lead of Anupamaa (2020–), a top-rated Hindi serial; joined BJP in May 2024.
RuPaul
RuPaul (RuPaul Andre Charles, born 1960, San Diego) is an American drag queen, singer, and TV host who created RuPaul's Drag Race in 2009 and holds 14 Primetime Emmys, the record for a competition host.
RuPaul's Drag Race
RuPaul's Drag Race, American reality competition series (premiered 2009 on Logo, now MTV) hosted by RuPaul; Season 18 crowned Myki Meeks; renewed for Season 19 and All Stars 12; 11 Emmy nominations in 2026.
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars is the American spin-off of RuPaul's Drag Race, premiering October 22, 2012 on Logo, in which returning contestants compete for the Drag Race Hall of Fame. Known for changing elimination mechanics almost every season, from Lip Sync for Your Legacy to the 18-queen Tournament format of seasons 10 and 11 with a $200,000 prize.
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars season 10
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars season 10 (Tournament of All Stars), Paramount+ season premiering May 9, 2025: 18 returning queens in three point-based brackets, won by Ginger Minj on July 18, 2025 for $200,000.
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars season 11
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars season 11, premiered May 8, 2026 on Paramount+, was the 11th All Stars installment. 18 returning queens competed in the second Tournament of All Stars bracket format; Crystal Methyd won the July 17, 2026 Disco Smackdown finale and $200,000.
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars season 9
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars season 9 (2024) is the ninth All Stars season, streaming on Paramount+ from May 17 to July 26, 2024. Eight returning queens competed without eliminations for a $200,000 Palette Fund charity donation; Angeria Paris VanMicheals won.
RuPaul's Drag Race Global All Stars
RuPaul's Drag Race Global All Stars, a 2024 Paramount+ spin-off of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars, has 12 international queens competing for Queen of the Mothertucking World, $200,000, and Hall of Fame induction; Alyssa Edwards won season 1.
RuPaul's Drag Race season 17
RuPaul's Drag Race season 17 (2025), MTV's seventeenth American competition season, featured 14 queens, the Squirrel Games premiere, Badonka Dunk Tank twist, and crowned Onya Nurve over runner-up Jewels Sparkles on April 18, 2025.
RuPaul's Drag Race season 18
RuPaul's Drag Race season 18 (2026): MTV's 18th season, 14 queens, $200,000 prize, first mother/daughter duo Athena and Juicy Love Dion; won by Myki Meeks on April 17, 2026.
RuPaul's Drag Race season 19
RuPaul's Drag Race season 19: upcoming 19th season of the MTV drag competition, renewed August 15, 2026 with Untucked and All Stars 12; casting closed November 2025; premiere expected January 2027 after Myki Meeks won season 18.
RuPaul's Drag Race UK
RuPaul's Drag Race UK: British reality drag competition on BBC Three from October 2019, made by World of Wonder; judges RuPaul, Visage, Norton, Carr; The Vivienne won series 1; left BBC for WOW Presents Plus in 2026.
RuPaul's Drag Race UK series 7
RuPaul's Drag Race UK series 7 (2025), seventh BBC Three season of the UK Drag Race franchise: 12 queens, 10 episodes from 25 September to 27 November 2025, the new Lucky Cow reprieve twist, and the final series on the BBC.
RuPaul's Drag Race UK series 8
RuPaul's Drag Race UK series 8 (2026) is the eighth season of the British drag competition, premiering 3 September 2026 on BBC Three with 12 queens, a £25,000 prize, and the BBC's final series before a move to WOW Presents Plus.
RuPaul's Drag Race: UK vs. the World series 1
First series (2022) of RuPaul's Drag Race UK vs The World, the BBC Three international All Stars spin-off; nine queens from UK, US, Canada, Thailand, and Holland franchises competed under elimination-lip-sync rules; Blu Hydrangea won.
RuPaul's Drag Race: UK vs. the World series 2
RuPaul's Drag Race UK vs. the World series 2, the 2024 BBC Three international All Stars season (8 episodes, 9 February to 29 March 2024), won by Tia Kofi over Hannah Conda, with a first £50,000 prize.
RuPaul's Drag Race: UK vs. the World series 3
RuPaul's Drag Race UK vs The World series 3 (2026): third international All Stars spin-off of Drag Race UK, 10 returning queens, 8 episodes, £50,000 prize, won by Gawdland of Drag Race Thailand.
RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked!
RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked! is the backstage after-show to RuPaul's Drag Race, begun as Under the Hood in 2009, airing after each episode on MTV and streaming on Paramount+, with 18 Emmy nominations.
RuPaul's Drag U
RuPaul's Drag U, a Logo reality spin-off of RuPaul's Drag Race (2010-2012, 26 episodes), had RuPaul and former contestants give drag makeovers to three women per episode competing for the highest Drag Point Average.
RuPaul's Secret Celebrity Drag Race
RuPaul's Secret Celebrity Drag Race, a VH1 spin-off of RuPaul's Drag Race (2020–2022), had celebrities compete incognito in drag for the America's Next Celebrity Drag Superstar title and a charity cash prize.
Rupert Boneham
Rupert Boneham (Rupert Fredrick Boneham, born 1964) is an American Survivor contestant and troubled-teens mentor who played four seasons, first to play consecutive seasons, and won a fan-voted $1 million prize without winning the game.
Rupert Everett
Rupert James Hector Everett (born 1959) is an English actor, writer, and director, star of Another Country and My Best Friend's Wedding, and writer-director-star of The Happy Prince (2018) about Oscar Wilde.
Rupert Friend
Rupert Friend (born 1981, Oxfordshire) is a British actor known for Pride & Prejudice, The Young Victoria, Homeland's Peter Quinn, Hitman: Agent 47, and Wes Anderson films including Asteroid City.
Rupert Giles
Rupert Giles, also Rupert Edmund Giles, is the fictional Watcher, Sunnydale High librarian, and mentor of Buffy Summers in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003), played by Anthony Stewart Head; known for his Ripper past and unmade BBC spin-off.
Rupert Graves
Rupert Graves (Rupert Simeon Graves) is an English film, television, and theatre actor born 1963 in Weston-super-Mare, known for Freddy Honeychurch in A Room with a View, Alec Scudder in Maurice, and DI Greg Lestrade in BBC's Sherlock.
Rupert Grint
Rupert Grint (born 1988, Harlow, Essex) is the British actor who played Ron Weasley in all eight Harry Potter films (2001-2011), later starring in Servant, Knock at the Cabin, and returning as Ron in Broadway's Cursed Child in 2027.
Rupert Penry-Jones
Rupert William Penry-Jones is an English actor born in 1970, best known for playing MI5 officer Adam Carter in Spooks and DI Joseph Chandler in Whitechapel.
Rupert Sanders
Rupert Sanders (born 1971) is a British director from Westminster, London, formerly an award-winning commercial director, who directed Snow White and the Huntsman (2012), Ghost in the Shell (2017), and The Crow (2024).