THE RISE AND RISE OF MICHAELA JAÉ RODRIGUEZ

From Emmy Award nominee to Golden Globe winner, Michaela Jaé Rodriguez captured our hearts with her lead role in Pose. After the series ended, she expected her career to stall, but it turns out that was just the beginning…

Words Mickey Rapkin

Last year, Michaela Jaé Rodriguez won a Golden Globe for her searing work in Pose, the Ryan Murphy-produced drama about the queer New York City ballroom scene and the Aids crisis. Rodriguez was the first trans person to win a Globe, and also the first to be nominated for an Emmy in a major category. Less importantly, today it’s fair to say she will become the first person (trans or otherwise) to roll up to this random, Pasadena breakfast joint in a chauffeur-driven black Escalade. “I don’t drive,” she tells me with a laugh. “Do you see the struggle?” This isn’t the struggle she expected when Pose concluded its run in 2021 after three seasons. Actually, the 32-year-old actress thought she’d never work again, fearing she’d be typecast, or, worse, that there’d…

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