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Kristin Chenoweth

Kristin Chenoweth

Birthday: 1968-07-24 | Place of Birth: Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, USA

Kristin Chenoweth (born July 24, 1968, height 4' 11" (1,50 m)) is an American singer and actress, with credits in musical theatre, film and television. She is best known on Broadway for her performance as Sally Brown in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (1999), for which she won a Tony Award, and for originating the role of Glinda in the musical Wicked (2003). Her best-known television role is Annabeth Schott in NBC's The West Wing. As Olive Snook on the ABC comedy-drama Pushing Daisies, she won a 2009 Emmy Award. An Oklahoma native, Chenoweth sang gospel music as a child and studied opera before deciding to pursue a career in musical theatre. In 1997, she made her Broadway debut in Steel Pier. Besides You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown and Wicked, Chenoweth's stage work includes five City Center Encores! productions, Broadway's The Apple Tree in 2006 and Promises, Promises in 2010, as well as Off-Broadway and regional theatre productions. Chenoweth had her own TV series Kristin in 2001, and has guest starred on many shows, including Sesame Street and Glee, for which she was nominated for a 2010 Emmy Award. In films, she has played mostly character roles, such as in Bewitched (2005), The Pink Panther (2006) and RV (2006). She has also played roles in made-for-TV movies, done voice work in animated films and the animated TV series Sit Down, Shut Up, hosted several award shows and released several albums of songs, including A Lovely Way to Spend Christmas (2008). Chenoweth also penned a memoir, A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love, and Faith in Stages. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kristin Chenoweth, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2021
National Champions

as    Bailey Lazor

2020
Holidate

as    Aunt Susan

2020
Roald Dahl's The Witches

as    Daisy / Mary (voice)

2020
Candy Land

as    Self - Host

2019
A Christmas Love Story

as    Katherine Clark

2019
2017
Class Rank

as    Janet Krauss

2017
Trial & Error

as    Lavinia Peck-Foster

2015
Strange Magic

as    Sugar Plum Fairy (voice)

2015
The Boy Next Door

as    Vicky Lansing

2013
Family Weekend

as    Samantha Smith-Dungy

2012
Hit & Run

as    Debbie Kreeger

2011
Glee Encore

as    April Rhodes

2010
You Again

as    Georgia

2010
Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue

as    Rosetta (voice)

2009
Into Temptation

as    Linda Salerno

2009
Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure

as    Rosetta (voice)