
She also appeared as a drag-version of Tyra Banks on America's Next Top Model Cycle 14, Episode 5: "Smile and Pose" introducing a drag-theme runway challenge at Lucky Chengs in New York City.
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The series featured fellow New York drag queens Bianca Del Rio, Dallas DuBois, Hedda Lettuce, Lady Bunny, Mimi Imfurst, and Sherry Vine. Peppermint was featured in the web series Queens of Drag: NYC by gay.com in 2010. The song was later released as Peppermint's debut single in 2006. She contributed the song "Servin' It Up", which was produced by Adam Joseph. She started recording music in 2005 for Jonny McGovern's mixtape Jonny McGovern Presents: This is NYC, Bitch! The East Village Mixtape. While in college she got a job at the nightclub Tunnel's Kurfew parties, ultimately becoming a fixture in New York City nightlife.

Peppermint moved to New York City to study musical theatre at AMDA.

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For a time, she also worked as a makeup artist for MAC Cosmetics. She continued performing at Wilmington High School where she was also on the cheerleading team. Peppermint started performing as a child in youth theatre, playing roles at Opera Delaware, Delaware Children's Theatre, and The Brandywiners Community Theatre. While a contestant on Drag Race, Peppermint revealed that when she had been a high-school cheerleader, she had been beaten up by a male member of her high school's basketball team. She transitioned after moving to New York City and came out in 2012, before she appeared on RuPaul's Drag Race. She felt her gender non-conformity was policed, so she tried to fit in with others' expectations. Peppermint was raised in Hershey, Pennsylvania, and Wilmington, Delaware. Īs a recording artist, she has released two studio albums, Hardcore Glamour, released in 2009, and Black Pepper, released in 2017, as well as five EPs, including A Girl Like Me: Letters to My Lovers, which was released in 2020. In 2018, Peppermint made her debut in The Go-Go's-inspired musical Head Over Heels as Pythio, becoming Broadway's first out trans woman to originate a lead role. She is best known from the nightlife scene and, in 2017, as the runner-up on the ninth season of RuPaul's Drag Race.

Peppermint, or Miss Peppermint (born 1979), is an American actress, singer, songwriter, television personality, drag queen, and activist.
