When you think of an action hero, it’s typically going to be someone like Bruce Willis in Die Hard or Sigourney Weaver in Alien and not necessarily someone more at home in a lace front wig and five inch heels.

But who needs the them when you’ve got Miami drag queen Elaine Lancaster, who saved a young man’s life by pulling him out just as it was about to be engulfed in flames?

She was in Mykonos, Greece, performing during August at at the @54 club alongside New York queens like Brooks and Lady Bunny.

‘I was home in my kitchen. They have rented me a beautiful villa,’ said the queen, whose real name is James Davis.

‘The streets are narrow, almost like donkey paths. If you don’t have a very narrow car, like a smart car or a scooter, you can’t get through the road. The road is elevated. From my patio, it’s almost eye level.’

At 1.15am Friday (24 July), Davis saw a small sedan rolling back and forth with two men and a woman inside.

‘I could smell they were burning the clutch,’ he told the Miami Herald, and said: ‘I said to the guy, “The car is on fire — I smell it.” The girl says, that’s OK, OK. I said, “No, I see flames.”‘

The young woman, who was driving the vehicle, jumped out.

But the guy, who was sitting on the passenger side, saw the fire coming out of the hood.

‘It’s almost like he’s hypnotized. He’s frozen. He keeps staring at the hood,’ David said.

‘I ran up the stairs and hopped over a little wall to get to the passengers side. The window as halfway down. I reached in and pushed his seat belt button. I opened the car door and grabbed him by the arm. He stood up in a daze.’ Davis said.

It was only when the young man was in the house, and the car had completely been engulfed in flames, that he realised a drag queen saved his life.

Her friends were proud, with drag queen Roxy Brooks christening her a ‘shero’.

Davis was only disappointed that he did it dressed as a boy. But, then again, five inch heels are still probably unrealistic for an action hero.