Priyanka

Priyanka is the stage name of Mark "Suki" Suknanan, a drag performer and one of the Season 1 contestants of Canada's Drag Race.

Name Origin

Priyanka is a popular female given name in Hindu and Buddhist cultures. Priyanka is also the name of a famous Bollywood actress, Priyanka Chopra.

Canada's Drag Race

Memorable Quotes

• "My name is Priyanka. What's my name?" [moves the question mark on her outfit] "Do you love me?" (entrance quote)
• "I can't believe I'm here! AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!”
• "I've only been doing drag for two years, but you wouldn't know that, because I'm an icon."
• "If you came to a Priyanka show, you would see, good hair, a really shiny costume, a lot of dancing, and I'd probably end up making out with you. I think that sounds like a good time, doesn't it?"
• "I didn't even see the maple leaf!"
• "A daddy!" (about Jimbo)
• (to Jimbo) "You want some Boy-Yanka?"
• "I showed them how ballet is done! Technique, form, and a good finish!"
• "Getting my steps in!"
• "Just say the lines! Just say the lines BOA!"
• "And I'm Lemon Bowyer-Chapman Melchor!"
• "Wigs: snatched! House of Hytes: mopped! Police: GOOPED!"
• "Today is National Arriving On Time Day, or as drag queens call it, tomorrow."
• "Aw shit! I need some more vodka."
• "Shut up Nancy!"
• "Ilona's having a full panic attack, BoBo's crying, Starzy hasn't even danced yet, and Rita went back to Québec!"
• "♪ Hi, it's me, Priyanka! / What's my name, name? / Toronto voted me the best / Got this thing, thing / Hi Canada, did you get my name? / Not a copy-cat fish, did you get my name? / It's me and my girls serving you spectacles / Those others girls? Forgettable ♪" (verse in "Not Sorry Aboot It")
• ''DEBORAH COX I'M SO EXCITEEEEEEEEEEED!!!''
• "I'm sitting there, looking around, being like 'Oh, all these girls are gonna come up with funny answers, what am I gonna do?'"

Trivia

• Mark is a graduate of Niagara College's Broadcasting program.
• Prior to starting drag, Priyanka was a host on YTV's "The Zone" and the Canadian teen singing competition "The Next Star".
• She had done drag for 3 years before Canada's Drag Race.
  • She was first put in drag at her 26th birthday party.
• She is the first queen to ever walk into the Werk Room on Canada's Drag Race.
• She is the second queen to walk into the Werk Room with a question mark as part of the outfit, after Phi Phi O'Hara on All Stars 2.
• She is in a Spice Girls tribute group with her fellow Canada's Drag Race competitor, Juice Boxx.
• She is the second queen of Indian descent or heritage to compete in the Drag Race franchise, after Genie on Drag Race Thailand.
• In episode 3, she became the first queen on Canada's Drag Race to win both the Mini Challenge and Maxi Challenge in a single episode.
• Priyanka used her drag name as a fake girlfriend to hide being gay from her father.
• Her lip-sync with Kiara is currently the longest lip-sync aired in Drag Race herstory, clocking in at 3 minutes and 14 seconds.
  • It is also the first lip-sync ever aired to exceed 3 minutes.

Gallery

Canada's Drag Race Season 1 Looks

Videos

MEET THE QUEENS Priyanka

Canada's Drag Race Meet Priyanka

Filmography

TV

• Canada's Drag Race, on Season 1, as herself/contestant. (2020)

Web Series

• TBA

Social Media

• Priyanka's Instagram | Twitter | Facebook

References

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