Andrea Burns
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Andréa Burns (born February 21, 1971) is an American actress and singer best known for her role as Carmen in Douglas Carter Beane's In The Heights, as Carmen and Daniela.
Early life
Burns was born in Miami Beach, Florida, to a Jewish father and a Venezuelan mother. She has referred to herself as a "Venegran Jewess from Miami who grew up loving Broadway." She spent many summers at the French Woods Festival of the Performing Arts in Miami and is a graduate of the New World School of the Arts in Miami.
Personal life
She is married to director Peter Flynn. Hudson Flynn, their son, is included on the front cover of her solo album A Deeper Shade of Red.
Career
Burns began her career touring the opera houses of Europe as Maria in West Side Story when she was 18 years old. She has appeared on Broadway as Belle in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, as Vicki Nichols in The Full Monty, as Carmen in The Nance, as Daniela in In the Heights, and as Googie Gomez in The Ritz, and she has sung concerts at Carnegie Hall. Burns appeared in the original company of Jason Robert Brown’s critically acclaimed Songs for a New World. Burns portrayed Lucille Frank in the national tour of Brown's Parade, for which she received a Touring Broadway Awards nomination for Best Actress. She was also created the role of Celeste in Saturday Night, by Stephen Sondheim, at Second Stage Theatre.
Her début solo album A Deeper Shade of Red was described by Playbill as "superb on all counts!" In 2006, "100 Stories", a single she co-wrote with her brother, music producer Mike Burns, rose to the No. 2 spot on the 2006 Billboard Hot Dance Club Play charts.
Television credits include Marvel Comics's Jessica Jones, Kevin Can Wait, Sky Dancers, Law & Order: SVU, Rescue Me, Blue Bloods, The Electric Company (2009 TV series), and Wonder Pets. She can also be heard on the original cast recordings of In The Heights, Songs for a New World, This Ordinary Thursday – The Songs of Georgia Stitt, Saturday Night, It's Only Life, Dear Edwina, Shine!, Broadway Bound, and Broadway Musicals of 1953.
Burns starred as Lenora in the 2015 film Akron, an official selection of the Out on Film Festival 2015, and played Fausta in Steven Spielberg's 2021 film West Side Story.
Awards
- 2016 Outer Critics Circle – Nominee – Best Featured Actress Musical
- 2007 Drama Desk Award – Best ensemble
- 2003 Joseph Jefferson Awards – Nominee, Actress in a Principal Role – Musical
- 2001 Touring Broadway Awards – Nominee – Best Actress Musical