Miss Coco Peru

Award-winning gay actor and drag performer of stage, television and Films, Clinton Leupp is better known to his adoring fans as "Miss CoCo Peru". This City Island Bronx boy wrote, produced, directed and starred in his (or if you prefer her) first show in the early 1990's called Miss CoCo Peru in My Goddamn Cabaret, quickly becoming a favorite in the cabaret world of New York City.

On celluloid, Miss CoCo is probably best known for roles in the Sundance film trick (1999) co-starring Tori Spelling, Christian Campbell and John Paul Pitoc as well as the SRO/IFC feature length comedy Girls Will Be Girls in 2003 and wound up sharing the Best Actress Award at the HBO Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen with her co-stars of the film Jeffery Roberson (better known as drag persona "Varla Jean Merman) and Jack Plotnick. Miss CoCo scored in the male category for the film as well, taking home the Best Actor Award at Southern California's Outfest Film Festival. Miss CoCo can has also been seen in 1995's To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar, 1997's romantic comedy Nick and Jane, and in 2004's take on 1950's Hollywood, Straight-Jacket. Miss CoCo's gorgeous voice talents are also heard in Walt Disney's 2006 animated feature film, The Wild as Mama Hippo.

On TV Miss CoCo has appeared in Arrested Development, Twins, Will and Grace, New York Undercover, Showtime's Rude Awakening, and in Bravo’s Boy Meets Boy, Sexiest Moments in Film, and Welcome to the Parker. Miss CoCo was nominated for a 2005 Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) Media Award for her appearance in a commercial for Orbitz and has her very own half-hour LOGO comedy special as part of the Wisecrack series.

Performing in sold-out venues across the US and abroad (no pun intended) Miss Coco’s live one-person shows include: Miss Coco Peru in My Goddamn Cabaret, the 1992 Manhattan Association of Cabarets (MAC) and Bistro Award-winning Miss Coco Peru: A Legend in Progress, the 1995 MAC Nominated Miss Coco Peru at the Westbeth Theatre, the 1998 GLAAD Nominated Miss Coco Peru's Liquid Universe, the 1999 GLAAD Nominated Miss Coco Peru's Universe, the 2001 LA GLAAD Nominated Miss Coco Peru’s Glorious Wounds…She’s Damaged, the 2004 GLAAD Award-winning and Ovation Nominated Miss Coco Peru is Undaunted, and most recently UGLY COCO. On top of everything else, Miss Coco hosts an on-going live series of shows at the Renberg Theater in Los Angeles called Conversations With Coco in which she interviews and celebrates the lives and careers of the GLBT community's favorite icons including the irreplaceable Beatrice Arthur, stage and screen star Lainie Kazan and the drag legend herself, Mr. Charles Busch.

In addition to being the Grand Marshall of the PTOWN Mardi Gras Parade in 2008, that same year Miss CoCo reprised her role from the aforementioned, now cult classic film Girls Will Be Girls, in a series of short follow-up films seen only on the internet. Miss Coco has also hosted the L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center's Gala, Lifeworks Comedy Night, the Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles 2009 Spring show And the Award Goes to... and the 2009 GLAAD Media Awards.