“As if her voice isn’t enough, her quick-witted comedy flows through the show effortlessly” – Edinburgh Festivals Magazine 2017Ģ018 saw Courtney Act and Shane Jenek plow full steam ahead as winner of Celebrity Big Brother UK – educating viewers on queer issues such as gender identity and fluidity, sexuality, same-sex marriage and much more. This sold out world tour culminated in her debut at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with 5* star reviews. The series garnered over 6 million views and saw Act fire a gun, smoke marijuana, and attend a Trump rally in drag.Ģ017 marked the international tour of her original show: The Girl From Oz. Proving once and for all that she was more than just a voice and a body, Courtney took on a number of controversial social causes and stories in her award-nominated political series American Act on. Her videos online have been viewed over 40 million times. Courtney then released her debut EP, Kaleidoscope, featuring mainstream pop beats and lux music videos.
In 2014 she returned to the television arena as one of the Top 3 in Season 6 of the Emmy Award-winning RuPaul’s Drag Race, with a legion of new fans around the world. One of the first artists to show their gender fluidity, Courtney broke out of the box in 2003 to make it through to the semi-finals of the premiere season of Australian Idol and then signed to Sony/BMG. She is a contemporary artist who embodies the zeitgeist of an era. Courtney Act is more than just the sum of her parts. Most of all, it’s a bloody good time.Boy, Girl.
It’s an often hilarious and at times heartbreaking memoir from a beloved drag and entertainment icon. Told with Courtney’s trademark candour and wit, Caught in the Act is about our journey towards understanding gender, sexuality and identity. Over ten years later, she makes star turns on RuPaul’s Drag Race and Celebrity Big Brother UK, bringing her unique take on drag and gender to the world.īehind this rise to national and global fame is a story of searching for and finding oneself. Born in Sydney around the turn of the millennium, Courtney makes her name in the gay bars of Oxford Street and then on Australian Idol. Shane makes a promise to himself: to find a bigger stage.
He finds his tribe at a performing arts agency, where he discovers his passion for song, dance and performance. Raised in the Brisbane suburbs by loving parents, Shane realises from a young age that he’s not like all the other boys.
Courtney is more than the sum of her parts.
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