With a two-decade long drag career under her belt, Courtney Act will star front and centre in Madame Tussauds new PRIDE Zone when she’s unveiled in December of this year. The PRIDE Zone will be an interactive space to celebrate love, equality and diversity, and to pay homage to Sydney’s LGBTQIA+ community.

Courtney will be dressed in her 2020 Mardi Gras rainbow Swarovski-covered Marco Marco dress, paired with glitter Louboutins (both donated by Courtney) and her hair will be styled in her signature high ponytail. The figure will look every bit the perfect representation of Sydney’s WorldPride Festival.

“To have my very own wax figure is a dream come true, it’s such an honour and I feel this is the part of me that will live on long after I’m gone,” Courtney says.

“Knowing that my wax figure will be the feature of the PRIDE Zone at Madame Tussauds Sydney is so fitting and perfect for 2022. I’m so proud that we now celebrate love and joy in this way. Sydney is a very special city to me, it’s where I discovered my identity and who I am. I started drag and performing in Sydney, there were so many big revelations that happened to me in Sydney, that it’s the place I feel most at home.”

Courtney’s got a little challenge for those who visit the figure too. . .

“When my figure is launched in December, there’s also a little Easter Egg there, see if you can you spot something unique about my feet!”

A team of eight from Madame Tussauds took more than 100 measurements and 300 photographs over a five-hour sitting, to ensure an identical figure of Courtney is created in the workshop in London, before arriving in Sydney later this year.

The news of this unveiling comes right as Shane Jenek (the person behind Courtney Act!) celebrates his 40th birthday.