Kelly Mantle

Kelly Mantle is an American actor, singer, comedian, musician, and drag performer. Born in Oklahoma City and raised in New Cordell, Oklahoma, she studied theater at the University of Oklahoma and earned a BFA, then moved to Chicago to act. There she acted in The Convention and Royal Flush and helped form OKRA Theatre, whose first production was Lone Star/Laundry & Bourbon. In 1998 she appeared in the Chicago staging of Charles Busch's Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, then moved to Los Angeles and was signed by a talent agent after being scouted. She has also performed in bands, including Sex with Lurch and the Rollz Royces. She was a contestant on season six of RuPaul's Drag Race and was eliminated in the first episode. She starred as Sheila on the sitcom The Browns and appeared in Confessions of a Womanizer, for which producers asked the Academy to consider her as both supporting actor and supporting actress, a request it granted.