Biography
Nina West, an American drag queen, gay activist, actor, and singer-songwriter, lives in Columbus, Ohio. She gained to national popularity after competing on the eleventh season of RuPaul’s Drag Race, where she finished sixth and won Miss Congeniality. Columbus Underground voted her the top local artist of 2019. Levitt has also produced three EPs, Drag Is Magic, John Goodman, and The West Christmas Ever, all released in 2019.
Age
She is 45 years old as of 10 August 2023. She was born in 1978 in Greentown, Ohio, United States. Her real name is Andrew Robert Levitt.
Family – Education
Levitt was raised in Greentown, Ohio. He graduated from Denison University with a theater degree. He intended to pursue acting but opted not to relocate to New York City following the September 11 attacks.
Spouse
He is gay and serves as an advocate and fundraiser for the LGBTQIA community. His interests have included HIV/AIDS testing and safe sex, marriage equality, transgender rights, and preschool education.
Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $60 million.
Career
Levitt started fiddling with haul in 2001. Nina West is the name of his drag persona. Her drag mother is Virginia West. Nina West has the yearly “Impact points of Frightfulness” show at Pivot Club, and has likewise facilitated the opposition “So You Want to Drag?” In 2008, she won the Performer of the Year grant; her gathering later propelled the vocalist Sia’s outfit at the 2016 Coachella Valley Music and Expressions Celebration.
Nina West contended in the 11th time of RuPaul’s Race. She had recently tried out for the show multiple times, yet neglected to make the last cast determination. She won the third episode for his exhibition in the ‘Diva Love’ challenge, and imitated Sarah Sanders on the fourth episode, “Trump: The Rusical”. In the “Grab Game” challenge, she turned into the primary sovereign in the show’s set of experiences to imitate somebody from the real unique Match Game, with her pantomime of Jo Anne Worley.
She then, at that point, won the “Dragracadabra” challenge in episode ten. She was wiped out in the accompanying episode, losing a lip-sync to Smooth Nutmeg Ganache. She was thusly delegated Miss Congeniality in the series finale. After her end, various big names and well known people took to online entertainment to voice their help for Nina West, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Scott Hoying. Levitt detailed that Rihanna sent him a confidential message following her end.
A road in Columbus was named after Levitt, called “The Nina West Way”. Nina West was consulted with Love Delano and Monet X Change for an episode of The View in June 2019. She featured in Liner, an energized short movie coordinated and created by Amos Sussigan and Dan Lund. She went to the 71st Early evening Emmy Grants, where she turned into the principal individual to walk the purple floor covering in full drag. Nina West was declared as a component of the cast for the very first time of RuPaul’s Mysterious VIP Race, a side project where Race graduated class change superstars into cross dressers, debuting in 2020.
Since Race, Levitt has featured in a few ads, with a portion of the brands including Pantene, Pepsi, and OraQuick, as well as being associated with lobbies for movies like Savages World Visit and Baneful: Courtesan of Malevolence. In 2019, Universe of Miracle declared that West was to have a youngsters’ situated program highlighting “tunes and parody bits propelled by youth programming of the ’90s” entitled Drag Is Sorcery.
In any case, starting around 2023, the series is yet to be delivered. In May 2021, the kids’ TV station Nickelodeon delivered an energized short on YouTube highlighting an enlivened pride march facilitated by Levitt that showed different assorted creature families, incorporating those with same-sex guardians and non-double characters. The following month, on June 5, 2021, Nickelodeon likewise delivered a promotion including Levitt to clarify for kids the significance of Pride as a piece of their Pride month festivity.
Levitt was remembered for Columbus Business Initial’s “40 Under 40” list in 2018. He functioned as an online entertainment planner for Hub Club starting around 2018 and has done virtual entertainment and promoting for Association Bistro starting around 2013. He plays Edna Turnblad in the melodic Hairspray for the 2021-2022 public visit. On April 23, 2024, Levitt was reported as one of the eight challengers contending on the 10th time of RuPaul’s Race All Stars. After her disposal, Levitt declared that she would deliver a kids’ music collection, Drag Is Enchantment, and a parody EP, John Goodman, by May 17, 2019. She delivered a music video for her most memorable single “Hucks” on May 10, 2019.
Movies
♦ 2022 – Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
♦ 2019 – Coaster
♦ 2019 – Ru’s Angels
TV Shows
♦ 2019 – RuPaul’s Drag Race
♦ 2019 – RuPaul’s Drag Race: Untucked
♦ 2019 – The View
♦ 2020 – RuPaul’s Celebrity Drag Race
♦ 2021 – RuPaul’s Drag Race (season 13)
♦ 2021 – NewsBeat
♦ 2021 – Blue’s Clues & You!
♦ 2021 – Dragging the Classics: The Brady Bunch
♦ 2023 – Drag Me to Dinner