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Kristi Dawn Chenoweth (born July 24, 1968) is an American singer and Tony Award-winning American musical theatre, film, and television actress.
Chenoweth has a distinctive speaking voice; in FHM's March 2006 issue, she compared her voice to that of Betty Boop. Chenoweth is a lyric coloratura soprano, and can sing into the whistle register. She can currently be seen on television, portraying Olive Snook on the ABC dramedy Pushing Daisies.
Chenoweth made her Broadway debut in a production of Molière's Scapin starring Bill Irwin, followed in the spring of 1997 by the musical Steel Pier by John Kander and Fred Ebb, for which she won a Theatre World award. The following season, she appeared in the City Center Encores! production of the George and Ira Gershwin musical Strike Up the Band and the Lincoln Center Theater production of William Finn's A New Brain. She has performed several times on the radio program A Prairie Home Companion.
During the 1998–1999 season, she performed the role of Sally in the Broadway revival of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. The production won Chenoweth the Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards as the season's Best Featured Actress in a Musical. She then starred in the Broadway comedy Epic Proportions, followed by appearances in ABC's television adaptation of the musical Annie (as Lily St. Regis), and in the leading role of Daisy Gamble in the City Center Encores! production of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever.
In 2003, Chenoweth performed songs from her album Let Yourself Go in concert for Lincoln Center's 5th American Songbook. She also performed in City Center Encores! 10th Anniversary Bash. In London, she was involved in Divas at Donmar for director Sam Mendes, then appeared in the Actor's Fund Benefit Concert of the musical Funny Girl in New York City.
In October 2003, Chenoweth returned to Broadway in Wicked, a musical about the early years of the witches of Oz. She plays the Good Witch Glinda who it turns out was best friends with the Wicked Witch of the West named Elphaba. She was nominated for a Tony as Best Leading Actress in a Musical for her performance as Glinda, but lost to co-star Idina Menzel (as Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West). After playing Glinda for nine months, Chenoweth left Wicked on July 18, 2004 along with co-stars Joel Grey and Norbert Leo Butz.
From December 14, 2006 to March 11, 2007, Chenoweth starred on Broadway in the production of The Apple Tree. Despite the rave reviews about her performance, she failed to get nominated for a Tony. On January 19, 2007, Chenoweth performed a solo concert at The Metropolitan Opera in New York, only the third musical theatre star ever to present a solo concert at the Met, following Barbara Cook and Yves Montand.
In television, Chenoweth starred in a short-lived sitcom, Kristin, for NBC that ran for six episodes. It was a mid-season replacement in 2001 that co-starred Jon Tenney. Beginning in the sixth season (2004–2005) of The West Wing, Chenoweth had a recurring role playing media consultant Annabeth Schott, and became a main cast member in the show's seventh and final season (2005 - 2006). She performed "For Good," a song she had sung in Wicked, at the memorial service for her friend and West Wing costar John Spencer.
Chenoweth appeared in Nora Ephron's 2005 film version of Bewitched. The film's star, Nicole Kidman, had attended a performance of Wicked and was so impressed with Chenoweth's charisma and stage presence that Kidman requested to Ephron that Chenoweth be cast in the film. Chenoweth got the part of Maria Kelly, Kidman's character's best friend. In 2006, she appeared in five films including The Pink Panther, RV, Stranger Than Fiction, Running with Scissors and Deck the Halls.
American parents may also recognize Chenoweth as Ms. Noodle in Sesame Street's Elmo's World television series. She appeared as part of this series briefly alongside Michael Jeter and Bill Irwin.
Chenoweth has spoken publicly about her faith; she describes herself as a liberal Christian. While growing up, she was a Southern Baptist, but later chose to have a personal connection to a faith that is not based in any one denomination. When in California, she attends a church in Malibu. In NY, she attends a United Methodist Church.
Chenoweth also has a large gay fanbase, and was uninvited from a Women of Faith conference in September 2005 because of her accepting attitude toward the gay community.
Chenoweth released an album in April 2005 called As I Am that's a mixture of hymns and contemporary Christian music, with arrangements that sound similar to adult contemporary. To promote the album, she made an appearance on The 700 Club, an appearance that upset some of her gay fans, but she later said that she thought that the "Pat Robertsons and Jerry Falwells of the world are scary."
She also dated writer Aaron Sorkin. In Sorkin's Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, the character of Harriet Hayes bears significant resemblances to Chenoweth, including having made an appearance on The 700 Club to promote an album. Chenoweth confirmed to The New York Dog Magazine that some of the character was taken from her "verbatim," but stressed that, unlike the character, she supports gay rights.
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- Untitled Kristin Chenoweth/Dusty Springfield Project (2008) - Dusty Springfield
- Tinker Bell (2008) (voice) - Rosetta
- Space Chimps (2008) (voice)
- Rapunzel (2009) (voice) - Rapunzel |
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