Kelly Mantle is an American actor, comedian, musician, and drag queen. He appeared as a contestant on the sixth season of hit reality TV show RuPaul's Drag Race.
Kelly Mantle was born in Oklahoma City but grew up in Cordell, Oklahoma. He is the nephew of professional baseball player Mickey Mantle, who played for the New York Yankees. His father was a high school football coach. Mantle graduated with a BFA in Theatre from the University of Oklahoma. For his senior year of college, he wrote Holdenville, a play about the lives of six women in Middle America. The play was entered into the American College Theatre Festival at the University of Central Oklahoma in 1994.
After college, Mantle went to Chicago to begin his career as an actor. He acted in plays such as The Convention and Royal Flush.Lone Star/Laundry & Bourbon was the first production by OKRA Theatre, a theatre company started by Mantle and his friend Tracy Parks, who directed the play.
Mantle also studied at Second City in Chicago. He has performed with many sketch comedy troupes in Chicago and Los Angeles including The Milk Carton Children where his "famous" character Dusty Rhodes was brought to life. The character eventually evolved, and The Dusty Rhodes Show was born. Mantle performed as Dusty Rhodes once a month for three years with new material and songs and surprise guests each month.
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Kelly is the fifth studio album by American R&B singer-songwriter Kelly Price released on May 3, 2011 on the labels My Block Records and Malaco Records. The album received three Grammy nominations at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards, for Best R&B Song, Best R&B Performance (both for the song "Not My Daddy") and Best R&B Album. Price arranged all of the vocals on the album.
All songs written by Kelly Price. Additional writers as follows.
Kelly is an Australian children's television series that first screened on Network Ten in 1991. The series was produced by Jonathan M. Shiff Productions and featured the adventures of a former police dog called Kelly.
Kelly is a highly trained German Shepherd police dog who needs to recover from an injury on duty. Sergeant Mike Patterson sends him to stay with his son's family. Kelly becomes the constant companion of Jo Patterson, Mike's granddaughter, and her friend Danny Foster. Kelly has many classic adventures with the family and other friends, and was considered Australia's answer to 'Lassie' and 'The Littlest Hobo.