Ilona Verley

Early life Verley was born to Sandi Verley and raised in Lytton, British Columbia and Surrey, British Columbia. They attended the Blanche MacDonald Centre in Vancouver for make-up artistry.

Career Verley appeared in pop singer Mathew V's 2018 video for his single "Broken", after Mathew V attended a drag show at which Verley had performed to Mathew V's 2017 single "Tell Me Smooth".

Verley competed on the first season of Canada's Drag Race, a reality competition television series based on the American series RuPaul's Drag Race and the Canadian edition of the Drag Race franchise. Prior to their appearance on the show, they had auditioned in Los Angeles for the eleventh and twelfth seasons of American version. They became the "first Indigenous, two-spirit, and openly non-binary queen" to compete. On Canada's Drag Race, Verley placed in the bottom two on three occasions and was eliminated in the seventh episode. They also attracted positive attention for their look in the season finale, which blended a First Nations jingle dress in their signature pastel colours with red handprints, a symbol of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women movement.

In October 2020, Verley was announced as one of the performers at the opening gala of the 2020 imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival.

In November 2020, Verley was named to Out magazine's annual Out100 list of influential LGBTQ personalities.

They live in Vancouver as of October 2020,

Filmography Television Canada's Drag Race (season 1)

Web series Bring Back My Girls (2022)