Ts Madison

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Ts Madison is a Black trans woman with brown skin in front of a black background. She has blue and purple eyeshadow with nude lipstick and long straight black hair. She is wearing big gold hoop earrings and a gold necklace. She's wearing a black top with the chest exposed.

Ts Madison is a Black trans woman with brown skin in front of a black background. She has blue and purple eyeshadow with nude lipstick and long straight black hair. She is wearing big gold hoop earrings and a gold necklace. She's wearing a black top with the chest exposed.

Job title
activist   actress   executive producer  
Identity categories
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trans woman   Black  
Alternate names

Maddie

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Dramatic poster featuring a closeup of a beautified Ts Madison, a Black trans woman, gazing directly in the camera in an alluring fashion pose while the arms of an unknown Black person are moving in front of her to block the shot.
Ts Madison is a Black trans woman with brown skin in front of a black background. She has blue and purple eyeshadow with nude lipstick and long straight black hair. She is wearing big gold hoop earrings and a gold necklace. She's wearing a black top with the chest exposed.
Ts Madison perches atop a retro TV while lowering her sunglasses. Ts is a black person with straight long hair, manicured nails, and wears an elegant gold sequin gown. Another black person with long hair stands beside Ts and there is clapperboard, suggesting they're on set. The name of the show is at the top, along with a speech bubble that reads "hey B*tches I got my own TV show".
Ts Madison with a big smile and hand resting on her chest. Ts is a black person with medium skin, straight hair, and polished makeup. In the background is the TV show name done in 90s retro vibes.
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Biography

Ts Madison Hinton (born October 22, 1977), also known as Maddie, is an American reality television personality, actress, and LGBT activist. With the reality show The Ts Madison Experience, she became the first black trans woman to star in and executive produce her own reality series. She has appeared in films such as Zola and Bros and has been a member of the regular judging panel on RuPaul's Drag Race since the show's fifteenth season following several previous appearances as a guest judge.

Madison rose to fame in 2013 after going viral following the release of a Vine clip titled "New Weave 22 Inches". The video features her exposing her nude body. During this time, Madison was starring in adult films and running a successful production company. On the LGBTQ&A podcast, Madison said she started doing sex work after being fired from multiple jobs for being trans. "I was hell-bent on me not being broke anymore in life. Me not having to worry about where I'm going to live, how I'm going to pay my bills, because I came from that time of me having to really worry. And this was a place of security for me."

After becoming a viral sensation, Madison signed a recording and media contract with Pink Money Records in 2014 and released her first single "Feeling My Fish" shortly after. In 2016, Madison released her debut album, The New Supreme, and appeared with Ellis Miah and RuPaul on the song, "Drop". In 2021, she collaborated with Todrick Hall on the song, "DICK THIS BIG".

With World of Wonder, she starred in two web series, Wait a Minute and Lemme Pick You Up.

In 2015, she released her memoir, A Light Through the Shade: An Autobiography of a Queen.

Madison has had roles in the movie Zola, and the upcoming romantic comedy, The Perfect Find, on Netflix. Janicza Bravo, the director of Zola, told The New York Times that she discovered Madison through her viral Vine video, watching it "maybe 20 times in a row...I became kind of obsessed with her." Madison appeared in Bros, "the first gay romantic comedy from a major studio". According to The Hollywood Reporter, the movie has a "historic all-LGBTQ principal cast".

Madison has made multiple appearances as a guest judge on RuPaul's Drag Race. In 2019, Silky Nutmeg Ganache played Madison in the Snatch Game episode of RuPaul's Drag Race season 11 and won the episode.

In 2021, The Ts Madison Experience debuted on We TV, making Madison the first black trans woman to star in her own reality show. Madison was also an executive producer on the series. On February 2021, Madison shared on a Facebook panel her experiences and knowledge on erasure of Black trans love. In 2022, WE tv announced that The Ts Madison Experience had been renewed for a second season.

Madison's voice is sampled on the song "Cozy" on Beyoncé's 2022 album Renaissance.

Wikipedia. “Ts Madison,” n.d. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ts_Madison.
Filmography