Pangina Heals

Pan Pan Narkprasert (Thai: ปันปัน นาคประเสริฐ; born July 22, 1988), known as Pangina Heals,[1] is a Thai drag queen and judge on Drag Race Thailand, who later went on to compete on RuPaul's Drag Race: UK vs the World (2022).[2] She has been described as one of the most popular drag performers in Asia, and is often called the RuPaul of Thailand.[3][4][5] Narkprasert founded the Bangkok drag venue, House of Heals.[6]

Pangina Heals
Pangina at Rupaul Dragcon 2022
Heals at RuPaul's DragCon in 2022
Born
Pan Pan Narkprasert

(1988-07-22) July 22, 1988
Bangkok, Thailand
EducationUniversity of California, Los Angeles (BFA)
Occupations
  • Drag queen
  • model
Known forDrag Race Thailand
RuPaul's Drag Race: UK vs the World

Early life and education

Narkprasert was born to a Thai father and a Taiwanese mother in Bangkok. He was a student at Shrewsbury International School and Harrow International School Bangkok. He was bullied by his peers and battled depression and bulimia.[7] He later lived in Los Angeles for four years, where he studied fine arts at the University of California.[8]

After graduating, Narkprasert returned to spend a year navigating Bangkok’s art scene. He entered his first competition, a Lady Gaga lookalike competition, in 2010 and won a trip to New York City to see her perform in concert.[7] Eventually, with the help of local drag performer Sira Soda, he learned how to dress and put on makeup.[7]

Career

Pangina chose their drag name as a reference to the drag queen Ongina and the super continent Pangaea.[9]

By 2011, Narkprasert has made a name for himself as Thailand's waacking queen,[6] and he would go on to win T Battle 2014, Thailand’s first reality TV drag competition.[10]

Pangina Heals continued to hone his craft by hosting a weekly LGBTQI+ night in Bangkok at the upmarket cabaret bar Maggie Choo's.[8]

Heals made her acting debut after joining the main cast of the play, The Lisbon Traviata, written by American playwright Terrence McNally and produced by English-language multicultural theatre group Culture Collective Studio, where she portrayed Mendy.[11][12]

Heals opened for Tube Gallery's 20th anniversary fashion show.[13] She is a part of the lineup for Melbourne’s Drag Exp in 2020.[14] In June 2021, she hosted Queer Got Talent, an online talent competition.[15]

In 2020, Narkprasert opened House of Heals, a drag bar in Bangkok.[6]

Television

As Pangina Heals, Narkprasert participated on Thailand's version of Lip Sync Battle and won the competition with a rendition of Lady Gaga's "Telephone".[16] She competed in and won T Battle, a Thai reality show where 13 local gender benders competed in singing, dancing and impersonation challenges.[7] She also competed on Thailand Dance Now.[8] In 2018, she was announced to co-host Drag Race Thailand, a Thai spin-off of RuPaul's Drag Race, produced by Kantana Group.[17]

In January 2022, she was announced as one of the nine contestants on RuPaul's Drag Race: UK vs the World,[18] making her the first ever contestant to have judged an iteration of the show before entering the competition.[19] In the premiere episode, Pangina Heals won the episode after beating Jimbo to a lipsync to "Say You'll Be There" by The Spice Girls, and chose to eliminate Lemon from the competition.[20] In Episode 3, Pangina won for the second time after beating Dutch contestant Janey Jacké in a lipsync performance to "We Like to Party! (The Vengabus)" by the Vengaboys and eliminated Jimbo.[21] Heals was eliminated in the following episode, the Snatch Game, by Blu Hydrangea, after her performance as Mariah Carey in the Snatch Game, which she did not react well to.[22]

Pangina Heals has a drag "daughter", Felicia Heals, who appeared in the casting special for the second season of Drag Race Thailand, becoming the first cisgender female queen to appear in the franchise.[23]

Filmography

Film
Year Title Role Notes
TBA Lady Bangkok Boy Pangina Heals Pre-production

Television
Year Title Role Notes
2014 Thailand Dance Now Herself Contestant
2014 T Battle Winner
2017 The Face Thailand Season 3 Special Guest (Episode 10: "Zorb Ball Catwalk")
2018 Lip Sync Battle Thailand Guest
2018–present Drag Race Thailand Co-Host
2018 The Face All Star Thailand Special Guest (Episode 3: "Outstanding")
2022 RuPaul's Drag Race: UK vs the World Contestant (6th place)
2023 RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars Lip Sync Assassin
2023 Drag Race Philippines (season 2) Guest Judge (Episode 8)
2023 RuPaul's Drag Race UK Special guest; Episode: "Tickety-Boo"

Music videos
Year Title Artist Ref.
2022 "The Motto" (Official Drag Video) Ava Max and Tiësto [24]

Web series
Year Title Role Notes Ref.
2014 Queer as Fuck Herself Host [25]
2018 Rat Nok Guest [26]
2018 Take Her Home Guest [27]
2018 Loukgolf's English Room Guest, Episode 178 [28]
2019 Work Bitch Work Guest [29]
2019 Follow Me World of Wonder series; guest [30]
2019 Drag to Go Gro Host [31]
2019 Bed Bitch & Beyond Host [32]
2022 The Pit Stop Guest [33]
2022 Bring Back My Girls Guest [34]
2022 Tongue Thai'd Host [35]
2023 Give It to Me Straight Guest [36]

See also

References
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