Denali

Denali
Biographical Information
Drag Name	Denali Foxx
Real Name	Cordero Matthew Zuckerman
Gender	Male
Ethnicity	German-Jewish & Indigenous Mexican
Date of Birth	April 1, 1992
Age	29
Hometown	Fairbanks, AK, USA
Location	Chicago, IL, USA
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Season Information
Season	Season 13
Place	8th (LSA)
Eliminated	Episode 10
Sent home by	Olivia Lux
Challenge Wins	1

Denali Foxx, or known simply as Denali, is the stage name of Cordero Matthew Zuckerman, a drag queen, professional figure skater and figure skating choreographer based in Chicago, Illinois and a contestant on Season 13 of RuPaul's Drag Race.

Drag Name Origin

Denali may come from the Alaskan mountain Denali, the highest summit in North America. Denali also appears in numerous Alaskan native languages, meaning "the tall one" or "big mountain". It has been confirmed on an Instagram live that her drag name is mostly inspired by her grandmother, because of her being taken care of in a facility called the Denali Center. Her last name comes from her drag mother Chamilla Foxx, which she only uses for social media.

Track Record(s)

Denali

Seasons Competed:	Season 13
Ranking:	8th Place Lip-Sync Assassin
Maxi Challenges Won:	1 (Ep. 3)
Times in Bottom Two:	2 (Eps. 4, 10)
Mini Challenges Won:	0
Times as Team Captain:	0
Episode Eliminated:	Episode 10

Memorable Quotes

Season 13

• "Let me break the ice!" (Entrance Quote)
• "Winners come in first."
• "I am drag's gold-medal bitch."
• "I hate to be this shallow bitch, but I'm just not a fan of chicken feathers." (Talking about Joey Jay)
• '' ♪ Move aside, it's your girl, Denali, I'm cold as ice, hotter than a tamale. Keep up and I'm Chi-Town tough. Triple Lutz on these sluts 'cause I like it rough. I'm icy, spicy, for you, I'm too pricey, going for the gold, so I'ma get a little feisty. Strong like a Megatron, long like a marathon. AK to Babylon, I'm a phenomenon! ♪'' (verse in “Phenomenon”)
• "Yucatan? Right." (In response to Utica's read in the Reading Challenge)
• "I've been obsessed with lamps since I was, like, a little baby boy."
• "Girl, womanly figure of Mrs. Potato head." (to Kandy Muse)
• "Girl, flopiana!"
• “We’re back in the werk roomiana.”
• PERIOD! (After given advice by Anne Hathaway)
• "Hi, gorgeous seashell flower money honey bunches of love! It is so good to be here, henny!" (as JVN in the Snatch Game)
• "Praying to the gay Jesus himself: me!" (as JVN in the Snatch Game)
• "Now the only thing hotter than Palm Springs is our resident culinary expert: Antoni, so I wrote 'Antoni's Ass Cheeks'." (as JVN in the Snatch Game)
• "I do have a thing for men with the kind of bear that say 'Hold me in your arms until all the pain goes away' but also: 'power drills are in aisle 7 henny'." (as JVN in the Snatch Game)
• "Great assets, turn him over and you can make a benedict!" (as JVN in the Snatch Game)
• ”A skater with a whole lot of class... and a whole lotta ass” (Exit Quote)

Extras

• "Kandy's a cunt!” (Instagram Live with Joey Jay)
• ”I’m about to shows, on these hoes.” (During her Meet The Queen)
• '' ♪ Denali is the name, and snatching gold is the game. Get you excited, you call that 'A Tonya Hard-On.' Triple Lutz on these sluts, Chicago tough so got guts. I'll spell it out for you! I'm icy but pricey, a little bit spicy, at the end of the day you'll say... ♪ " (unused verse in "Condragulations" revealed on an Instagram Live)
• ”Big Sco-ish coque!” (on a live with Rosé)
• ”But you can call him Big Head” (on a live with Rosé)
• '' ♪ Full house in poker, four leaf clover, lucky my titty so small I can hold her, lucky that the Windy City made me so gritty that I'm sitting so pretty, man fuck a make-over. Keep racking up views, skating on by like Sarah Hughes, ate no crumbs like I'm on vacation, three mil on an assassination. But i'm your ice queen, linin' up boys since seventeen, aiming high like I took an edible, member' the name cause I'm unforgettable. ♪ " (Unused Verse in "Lucky")

Farewell Message

"CLARA CLARA, OVER ANY GOLD MEDAL, CROWN OR CASH PRIZE, MY SISTERS WERE THE GREATEST REWARD. ASS OF '13 OFF TO GET SOME D! L8R SK8RS! ♡ DENALI💋"

Trivia

• Denali has been doing drag since April of 2018.
• Denali is a 3rd degree black belt.
• Denali is fluent in English and Spanish. She also has Korean knowledge as she used to live in South Korea from 2012 to 2013.
  • She is a big fan of K-Pop girl groups, as she mentioned in a live, such as LOOΠΔ, IZ*ONE, ITZY, TWICE, 2NE1, BLACKPINK, Red Velvet, SNSD and Chung-ha).
• Denali's drag mother is Chicago drag queen Chamilla Foxx.
• Denali introduced Priyanka to RuPaul's Drag Race when Season 9 was airing.
• Denali is the first Drag Race contestant...
  • ... from the state of Alaska.
  • ... to enter the Werk Room wearing ice skates and the second overall to enter it in skates, after Trixie Mattel in All Stars 3.
  • ... to lip sync in ice skates.
    • However, she is the second Drag Race contestant to lip sync in skates, after Robbie Turner (in roller skates), and is therefore the first one to lose a lip sync in skates.
  • ... to win a lip sync after already having lost a lip sync within a single regular season.
  • ... to win a Maxi Challenge in her first competitive episode and land in the bottom two in the next.
  • ... alongside Lala Ri, to be officially named the lip-sync assassins of their season by RuPaul during the reunion episode.
• Denali is a professional figure skater, was on a national team for five years and has worked with professional touring companies such as Cirque du Soleil and Royal Caribbean. She describes herself as a "dance and ice queen".
  • This makes her the second Drag Race contestant to be an ice skater, after Milk.
  • Denali has choreographed for 2021 US National Silver Medallist Amber Glenn.
• Denali is the third Drag Race contestant to lip-sync in the first three episodes she appeared in, after Akashia on Season 1 and BenDeLaCreme on All Stars 3.
  • However, BenDeLaCreme went on to lip-sync until the fourth competitive episode.
• Denali has Deuteranomaly (commonly known as red-green colorblindness), meaning she has trouble distinguishing between red and green.</ref>
• Denali was arrested for public intoxication and possessing a controlled substance.
• Denali has a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish from the University of Utah.
• Denali is the lowest placing Challenge Winner of Season 13.
• Denali and Olivia Lux are the second queens to have lip-synced to a gospel song, after Rebecca Glasscock and Shannel.
  • Coincidentally, both pairs lip-synced to the same song.
• Denali, in Season 13, is the first queen to lip sync 5 times with all different outcomes:
  • On Episode 1, she lost to LaLa Ri and got "The Porkchop".
  • On Episode 3, she landed in the top two and won over Rosé.
  • On Episode 4, she landed in the bottom two, won over Kahmora Hall and kept her spot in the competition.
  • On Episode 10, she landed in the bottom two, lost to Olivia Lux and was eliminated.
  • On Episode 15, she was chosen as a lip sync assassin by Ru in the reunion and won the lip-sync for her chosen charity against LaLa Ri
    • She, alongside LaLa, is also the first pair of queens who both won and lost a lip-sync against the other in the same season.
• Denali is the Drag Race contestant that came out on the runway in the same ordinal number the most consecutive times in a single season, coming out first for six runway presentations in Episodes 3, 4, 5 and 6 of Season 13 (We're Here We're Sheer, Trains for Days, Mixed Bags, Money Bags, Bag Ball Eleganza, Bead It!).
• Denali is one of two queens to place higher than the queen that beat her in the Pork Chop lip-syncs, the other being Rosé.
• Denali posted a video called "When I Grow Up (Ice Version)" after her premiere lip-sync against LaLa Ri, which The Pussycat Dolls supported, commenting "YAAAAASSSS @denalifoxx ICE QUEEN!!!! WE LOVE YOU!"
• Denali's original drag name was Tonya Hard-on, which she featured on one of her verses for one of Season 13's ru-mixes.
• Denali was once called Denali O'Nice.
• She was blocked on Twitter by Tamisha Iman

Gallery

RuPaul's Drag Race Season 13

Mini Promo

Cast RuVeal

Mini Trailer

RuPaul's Drag Race Season 13 Looks

Promo Look

Cast RuVeal Look

Premiere Look

Confessional Look

Entrance Look

Unaired Lamé Look

Lady Look

Vamp Look

Phenomenon Look

Sheer Look

Trains for Days Look

Mixed Bag Look – Airbag

Money Bags Look

Bag Ball Eleganza Look

Wallpaper Look

Little Black Dress Look

Little Black Dress Look (Reveal)

Bead It Look

Social Media: The Unverified Rusical Look – Russian Bot, Nikita

Yellow Gorgeous Look

Snatch Game Look – Jonathan Van Ness

Fascinating Fascinators Look

Drag Doppelgängers Look – Olivia Lux

Unaired Original Drag Doppelgängers Look with Olivia Lux

Unaired BEAST Couture Look

Unaired Haute Pockets Look

Unaired Drag Excellence Look

Reunion Look

Reunion LSFYC Look

Grand Finale Look

Social Media

• Denali's Site | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
• Denali on YouTube