Pandora Boxx (born Michael Steck on May 2nd 1972) is an American Drag Queen, reality TV personality and comedian.
After auditioning twice, Pandora was cast on the second season of RuPaul's Drag Race where she placed eight overall and was voted the season's "Miss Congeniality". Highlights of her time on the season include her performance impersonating Carol Channing on the "Snatch Game" (the show's Match Game parody) however she didn't win any challenges during the run, although she consistently placed highly.
Pandora appeared on three seasons of RuPaul's Drag Race spin-off show, RuPaul's Drag U as a drag professor, helping women to find their inner confidence through drag. Pandora was then cast in the first season of RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars in 2012, competing in a team with fellow contestant, Mimi Imfurst. The pair were the first to be voted off the show.
Outside of RuPaul's Drag Race and performing as a drag queen in general, Pandora is known for producing, writing and directing, acting, and comedy shows. She also has her own YouTube channel.
Selected filmography:
- Mrs Kasha Davis: The Life of an International Housewife Celebrity (2008) (as Delores Matterhatter)
- Ricki Lake (1997)
- RuPaul's Drag Race (2010)
- RuPaul's Drag U (2010-2012)
- RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars (2012)
- RuPaul's Drag U (2010-2012)
- AJ and the Queen (2020)
- The Golden Pandemic (2020) (as Rose)
Pandora Boxx provides examples of the below tropes:
- Always Second Best: Despite placing highly in most of the challenges during RuPaul's Drag Race, Pandora never won any of them.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Revealed on RuPaul's Drag Race that she had gone through a dark period where she was nearly Driven to Suicide.
- Punny Name: Pandora's Box is from Greek mythology. The term 'box' is a Double Entendre for female genitalia.
