Ali Stroker
Ali Stroker was born in Ridgewood, Bergen County, New Jersey, United States on June 16th, 1987 and is the Stage Actress. At the age of 36, Ali Stroker biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Ali Stroker (born June 16, 1987) is an American actress and singer.
She is the first actress to use a wheelchair for mobility on a Broadway stage and has been nominated for and receive a Tony Award.
Stroker was a finalist on the second season of The Glee Project and later appeared on Glee as a guest star.
Anna appeared in Spring Awakening's 2015 revival.
She received the 2019 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her appearance in Oklahoma!
Early life
Jody and Jim Stroker, as well as Jake, her older brother, and Tory, Ali's younger sister. Stroker and her brother were involved in a car accident that resulted in a spinal cord injury that left Ali paralyzed from the waist down. Since she is unable to walk, she uses a wheelchair. She attended Ridgewood High School, where she served as the senior class president and performed in school musicals.
Stroker trained at the Millburn, New Jersey, in the summer Musical Theatre Conservatory program.
Stroker was the first actor to earn a degree in Fine Arts from New York University Tisch Drama Department in 2009.
Personal life
Stroker, a bisexual and dated colleague Dani Shay of the Glee Project, from 2012 to 2015.
Stroker and her then-boyfriend (now husband), theater director and actress David Perforin attended the 2019 Tony Awards. In 2015, she and Perlow reconnected and became the founding directors of ATTENTIONTheatre.
Stroker and her husband revealed that they and their first child are expecting their first child on July 17, 2022, in lieu of commemorating their first anniversary.
Career
In addition to concert appearances at Lincoln Center in New York City, Stroker has appeared solo at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and New York's Town Hall.
Stroker appeared in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at the Paper Mill Playhouse. She later revived her role in this production at the Philadelphia Theatre Company, and her success earned her a Barrymore Award nomination.
Stroker appeared in the short film I Was a Mermaid and Now I'm a Pop Star in 2011.
She auditioned for The Glee Project and was cast in the 12-episode film in 2012. In Season 4, Episode 14: "I Do" she made it to the final episode and finished second, earning a guest appearance on Glee.
She appeared in the film Cotton in 2014, also known as "Everyday Miracles" in English.
Stroker played Wendy in the MTV series Faking It in 2014 and 2015.
She made history by becoming the first actress to perform on a Broadway stage in 2015. Anna played Anna in Deaf West Theatre's Spring Awakening revival in 2015.
In 2017, Stroker was cast as Tamara in ABC's Ten Days in the Valley.
She appeared in St. Ann's Warehouse's critically acclaimed revival of Oklahoma in 2018. Stroker received the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical in 2019, making her the first person with a disability to be nominated for and receive the award.
She appeared in Lifetime's Christmas Ever After, a series that debuted on December 6, 2020.
She appeared on Detective Allison Mulaney on the police procedural television series Blue Bloods, and on the mystery-comedy television show Only Murders in the Building in 2021.