American sex worker and performer Jason Holliday was BOTD in 1924. Born Aaron Payne, he was raised in New Jersey, training as an actor at the Actors’ Workshop in Los Angeles and the American Academy of Dramatic Art in New York. In 1967, he was introduced to Andy Warhol who attempted to make a film with him and Edie Sedgwick, a project that was later abandoned. He is best known as the star and subject of Shirley Clarke’s 1967 documentary Portrait of Jason, in which the offscreen Clarke and her boyfriend Carl Lee interview Holliday about his upbringing, failed acting career, his hard-won identity as an African-American gay man and experiences as a sex worker. Filmed over 12 hours at New York’s Chelsea Hotel, the film ends with Clarke and Lee provoking Holliday in an attempt to get a response. The film became a cult hit – Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman hailed it as “the most extraordinary film I’ve ever seen in my life” – but failed to revitalise Holliday’s show-business career. Little is known about the remainder of his life, and he made no further film appearances. He died in 1998 aged 78.