Name
Joey Arias
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1949-10-03 (77 years old)
Place of Birth
Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA
Biography
A fixture of New York City’s vibrant downtown performance scene for 30-plus years, Joey Arias is a bona fide NYC icon. Arias lived and worked with legendary musician Klaus Nomi until Nomi’s death in 1983. However, he has long since stepped out of Nomi’s shadow to gain fame in his own right as a performance artist, cabaret singer and drag artist. Arias has distinguished himself with scandalous wit, sleek style and an extraordinary voice... evocative of Billie Holiday yet uniquely his own. Arias has performed worldwide at venues including Carnegie Hall and the Freedom Theatre in London. Arias was tapped by Cirque du Soleil to originate the role of the emcee in their Las Vegas spectacular Zumanity. After 6 years in that role, Arias returned to New York where he became the star and co-creator of Arias With a Twist with master puppeteer Basil Twist. The show was a critical and commercial hit and extended repeatedly for a total of 8 months. On film, he has appeared in Mondo New York, Big Top Pee Wee, Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, Wigstock - The Movie, Flawless and To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar, among others.
Known For
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Arriving in the small town of Fallwell, Massachusetts to claim her inheritance, horror hos...
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Paul Reubens stars as Pee-wee Herman in his second full-length film about a farmer who joi...
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Manhattan drag queens Vida Boheme and Noxeema Jackson impress regional judges in competiti...
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Naked in New York begins in the car of grown up Jake, he is talking to us about his girlfr...
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Looks like an alien, sings like a diva - Klaus Nomi was one of the 1980s' most profoundly ...
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As an AIDS activist and member of ACT UP in the 1980s and 90s, Sam witnessed the deaths of...
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A young woman wanders around New York City and stumbles across a number of strange charact...
- 1993 Naked in New York as Self
- 1995 God Save the Queens
- 2010 Arias With a Twist as Himself
- 2016 The Zanctuary as Dora Ramona del Pilar
- 2012 Jobriath A.D. as Himself
- 1995 Wigstock: The Movie as Self
- 1991 Deadly Game as Ramirez
- 2008 Cirque du Soleil: LoveSick as Himself
- 1988 Mondo New York as Fish Out Of Water / A Hard Days Night
- 1997 Dragtime as Self
- 1988 Elvira: Mistress of the Dark as Hitchhiker
- 2004 The Nomi Song as Self
- 1999 Flawless as Stormy
- 1988 Big Top Pee-wee as Shim
- 2017 After Louie as Jai the Chanteuse
- 1985 Mermaids on Heroin as Meridian
- 2019 Wig as Self
- 1980 The Long Island Four
- 1995 To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar as Justine
- 1997 Drunks as Ruby
- 1987 Vandemonium Plus
- 2012 She's Living for This ( 1 episode ) as Joey Arias / Various Characters
- 1975 Saturday Night Live ( 1 episode ) as Self - David Bowie Backup Singer (uncredited)
