Kristin Chenoweth

At 56 years old, Kristin Chenoweth has this physical status:

Kristin Dawn Chenoweth (born Kristi Dawn Chenoweth, July 24, 1968) is an American actress and singer with experience in musical theatre, film, and television.

She received a Tony Award in 1999 for her role as Sally Brown in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown on Broadway.

Chenoweth received a lot of praise for her role as Glinda in the musical Wicked in 2003, as well as a nomination for another Tony.

Annabeth Schott appeared on ABC's The West Wing and Olive Snook on ABC's Pushing Daisies, for which she was rewarded with the Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2009.

In 2012, she appeared in the ABC television series GCB. Chenoweth performed gospel music as an infant in Oklahoma and studied opera before deciding to pursue a career in musical theatre.

She made her Broadway debut in Steel Pier in 1997, winning a Theatre World Award, then appeared in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, and Wicked.

In 2006, Promises, Promises, Promises in 2010, and On the Twentieth Century in 2015, which earned her second Tony Award nomination, she performed in The Apple Tree in 2006.

She has appeared in five City Center Encores!, Off-Broadway, and regional theatre productions. Kristin started her own sitcom in 2001 and has appeared on many television shows, including Sesame Street and Glee, for which she was nominated for Emmy Awards in 2010 and 2011.

She has appeared in most films, including Bewitched (2005), The Pink Panther (2006), and RV (2006).

She has appeared in made-for-TV films like Descendants (2015); performed voice work in animated films such as Rio 2 (2014) and Shut Up (2015); and produced several albums of songs, including A Lovely Way to Spend Christmas (2008), The Art of Elegance (2016), and For the Girls (2019).

A Little Bit Wicked, Chenoweth's 2009 memoir, A Little Bit Wicked.

Early life

Chenoweth was adopted when she was five days old by Junie Smith Chenoweth and Jerry Morris Chenoweth, both chemical engineers from Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, a suburb of Tulsa, and Kristi Dawn Chenoweth. She has claimed that she is of one quarter Cherokee origins and that she eventually discovered her biological mother. She performed gospel songs for local churches at an early age. A highlight of her childhood was a solo appearance at the Southern Baptist Convention national conference at the age of 12, where she performed the Evie song "Four Feet Eleven." "I'm only 4 feet 11, but I'm going to Heaven" starts the chorus, but the singers announce that the throne is not yet 4 foot (150 cm) in height). Chenoweth attended Oklahoma City University, where she was a member of Gamma Phi Beta (Beta Omicron) sorority after graduating from Broken Arrow Senior High School, where she took part in school plays. She earned a bachelor's degree in musical theatre in 1990 and a master's degree in opera performance in 1992, where she spent time under voice coach and mentor Florence Birdwell. Chenoweth competed in beauty pageants while at OCU, winning the Miss OCU trophy and being the second runner-up in the Miss Oklahoma pageant in 1991. Chenoweth appeared on The Most Happy Fella in 1992.

Chenoweth appeared in Gypsy, Liesl in The Sound of Music, Fran in Promises, Promises, and Tuptim in The King and I whilst studying for her master's degree. Chenoweth completed her master's degree and was named "most promising up-and-coming artist" in the Metropolitan Opera National Council auditions, which included a full scholarship to Philadelphia's Academy of Vocal Arts. She went to New York City two weeks before school started, but she didn't come back to help a friend relocate. Arabella Rittenhouse appeared in the role of Arabella Rittenhouse while there. She turned down the scholarship and moved to New York to play the part and pursue a career in musical theatre.

Personal life

Chenoweth wrote A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love, and Faith in Stages in 2009, a memoir about her life and work, as well as her time in Hollywood. Chenoweth, a seizure disorder that can cause vertigo, headaches, and nausea, among other signs, is causing vertigo, nausea, and vomiting. She has said that during some appearances she depended on her co-stars to keep their balance, which has resulted in her appearances, and that it has caused her to miss performances.

Chenoweth has openly defended her religious faith; she describes herself as a "non-judgmental, liberal Christian." Chenoweth "assured her theatre followers that she supports gay rights," she was outraged, according to The New York Times, and she was barred from attending a Women of Faith conference in September 2005. In April 2005, Chenoweth released As I Am, a blend of hymns and contemporary Christian music with adult contemporary arrangements. She appeared on The 700 Club to sell the album, which enraged some of her gay followers. She later said that the "Pat Robertsons and Jerry Falwells of the world are frightening" and that she regretted being on the program.

Chenoweth wrote in reaction to an article published in Newsweek by Ramin Setoodeh, an openly gay writer. Setoodeh thought that her Tony-nominated Promises, Promises co-star Sean Hayes "comes off as dirty and insincere" in portraying Chuck, and that Jonathan Groff has a similar credibility issue in the TV show Glee. He asked if any openly gay actor would acceptably portray a straight man. Chenoweth characterized the book as "horrendously homophobic" and chastised Setoodeh's argument for justifying "the same sort of bullying" that gay youth experience in high school as normal. Audiences "come to the theater to go on a journey" and are not concerned about an actor's sexual orientation, according to Chenoweth. The article was published in newspapers including The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times.

Producer Dana Brunetti, actors Seth Green, Lane Garrison, and Marc Kudisch (to whom she was married from 1998 to 2001), and producer/writer Aaron Sorkin have all worked together in Hollywood, including actor Dana Brunetti, actor Seth Green, Lane Garrison, and actor Marc Kudisch (to whom she was engaged from 1998 to 2001). The Christian Harriet Hayes' model in Sorkin's Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, as well as the misunderstanding between Hayes and "East coast liberal Jewish atheist" (Hayes' description. For example, Chenoweth's decision to join The 700 Club and her separation from Women of Faith were depicted with the Hayes person. Chenoweth has been dating Josh Bryant, the guitarist for country band Backroad Anthem, since 2018. They married on October 27, 2021, exactly 2021.

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Career

Chenoweth performed in regional theatre productions, including Babes in Arms at The Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, and Phantom in The Greatest in 1996, as Christine, as well as in Kristy in the Damned's Off-Broadway productions. "Kristin Chenoweth's sob-prone ingenue is delightful," she performed in the Roundabout Theater Company's production of Moliere's Farcical Scapin in 1997, earning her first New York Times review. Precious McGuire, a young actress who received a Theatre World Award in 1997, made her Broadway debut in the musical Steel Pier by Kander and Ebb. She appeared in the City Center Encores in 1998. As Anne Draper and created roles in William Finn's A New Brain's original Lincoln Center Theater performance, staged a staged concert of the George and Ira Gershwin musical Strike Up the Band. "It's unlikely anyone will equal Kristin Chenoweth in the role of 'Nancy D., the waitress,'" Ben Rimalower wrote in Playbill.

Chenoweth appeared in the Broadway revival of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown as the title character's little sister, Sally, a role that was not present in the original production. She was named Best Featured Actress in a Musical by the Tony and Drama Desk Awards. Later that year, she appeared in Epic Proportions on Broadway for a short time, followed by a role in the "Encores!" On a Clear Day You Can See Forever was born in February 2000.

Chenoweth shifted her attention away from stage, television, or film roles and into her first solo album, Let Yourself Go (2001). She appeared in the City Center Encores in 2002! The 10th Anniversary Bash was held in the United States. She returned to Broadway in October 2003 as Glinda the Good Witch (after the San Francisco tryout) in the musical Wicked. She was nominated for a Tony Award in a Musical for her appearance in 2004,; her co-star Idina Menzel (who appeared in Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West) received the accolade. For this role, Chenoweth was also nominated for the Drama Desk Award and the Drama League Award. "The gold standard was unquestionably and indelibly set" by Chenoweth's performance for Glinda, according to Ben Rimalower of Playbill. Chenoweth left Wicked on July 18, 2004, and was soon joined by the cast of The West Wing in Los Angeles. The Wicked cast album received a Grammy Award in 2005.

In the New York Philharmonic revival of Candide, directed by Lonny Price in May 2004, Chenoweth appeared in Cunegonde. The show on PBS' Great Performances was also broadcast. Also included in the production was a performance of the rarely performed duet "We Are Women" starring Cunegonde and the Old Lady (played by Patti Lupone).

Chenoweth appeared on Broadway as Eve in a revival of The Apple Tree starring Brian d'Arcy James and former Fiancé Marc Kudisch from December 2006 to March 2007. She was nominated for the Drama Desk Award and the Drama League Award. She attended the Drama Desk Awards ceremony this year.

She appeared in the Encores!

In 2009, Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's Music on the Air hosted a semi-staged production. In 2010, Chenoweth was supposed to return to The Metropolitan Opera to perform Samira in John Corigliano's opera The Ghosts of Versailles. As the US economy weakened, the Met discontinued production in 2008.

In the 2010 Broadway revival of the musical Promises, Promises, opposite Sean Hayes, Chenoweth appeared as Fran Kubelik, opposite Sean Hayes, which opened on April 25, 2010. "I Say a Little Prayer" and "A House Is Not a Home" were among her new songs to perform. Chenoweth and Hayes remained in the cast until the show ended on January 2, 2011, although she did not appear on December 29, 2010, 2011, to a New Year's Eve concert at Walt Disney Concert Hall on December 31, 2010. In a reading of the musical Rise in 2011, Tammy Faye Bakker played televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker.

Chenoweth appeared Lily Garland in a Broadway revival of On the Twentieth Century, opposite Peter Gallagher, which opened on February 12 and opened on March 12, 2015 at the Roundabout Theatre Company in a limited engagement through July 19, 2015. The New York Times' Ben Brantley wrote that Chenoweth "uses [her character's] histrionics" to create one of the most virtuosic portraits in song ever on Broadway. Her vocal vocabulary here ranges from jazz-baby brass to operatic silver, many in a single number, and she switches among them with ease, which is refreshing. Every properly balanced note is launched by an impeccably exaggerated gesture. She was nominated for a Tony Award and also received a Drama Desk Award for her role.

Chenoweth appeared in her own NBC sitcom, the semi-autobiographical Kristin, in 2001 after a guest appearance on LateLine, a role in the short-lived television series Paramour (1999), and many roles in television films, including Annie (as Lily St. Regis). With thirteen episodes produced, it was short-lived, but just six episodes were broadcast before it was canceled. In the 2003 television film The Music Man, opposite Matthew Broderick, Chenoweth appeared in the lead role of Marian. She has appeared on Frasier (2001), Sesame Street (2002 and later), and Ugly Betty (2007).

In 2004, Chenoweth began to play Annabeth Schott, a media consultant, in The West Wing. She was nominated twice, along with the cast, for a Screen Actor Guild Award. She appeared in the program's final two seasons from 2006 to 2006. Chenoweth had been considered for the role of Ainsley Hayes early in life, but she had already accepted her role in Wicked.

Chenoweth appeared in Pushing Daisies from 2007 to 2009. She earned critical acclaim and was nominated two years in a row for an Emmy Award, winning in 2009 as Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. After two seasons, the show was cancelled. Chenoweth lent her voice to Sit Down, Shut Up, in 2009, as Miracle Grohe, a science teacher who does not believe in science. The series only lasted thirteen episodes. Chenoweth, who appeared on several songs in Glee later this year, was in a recurring role as April Rhodes, receiving raving notices. The main character is a former member of the glee club who never completed high school and ended up at the bottom of the charts. "Her presence may not make sense," a USA Today article said, "We might not make sense, but if it means seeing Chenoweth perform, we should be able to provide any explanation that the show cares to provide." She was named Outstanding Guest Star on Satellite in the United States.

Chenoweth performed more songs in 2010 as April Rhodes returned to Glee. According to the Los Angeles Times, Kristin Chenoweth's return to 'Home' was unquestionably the best part of 'Home' as April. I fell in love with her again, from her spunky duet of Fire with Schue to the heart-achingly sad coo of 'One Less Bell to Answer,' which lead to a spectacular reprise of "A Home Is Not a Home" and, of course, her bone-chilling take on Home. She was nominated for both 2010 and 2011 Emmy Awards for her appearances on Glee. In 2011, Chenoweth returned to Glee in "Rumours" for the 100th episode in 2014. Chenoweth appeared on ABC's Good Christian Bitches as a character named Carlene Cockburn in 2011. The ABC picked up the show and changed the name to GCB. The series debuted in 2012 but it only lasted one season; Chenoweth performed a song in every episode. She appeared on "The Gateway Friend" in an episode of Cleveland's sitcom Hot in 2012.

In the fourth season of The Good Wife (2012), Chenoweth appeared as a political reporter. Nonetheless, she soon left the show due to serious burns on the set, where she suffered a skull fracture, broken nose, spinal and rib fractures, and cracked teeth. She appeared in the 2012 season opener and reprised in a brief scene from another episode. Kirstie's is a female comedian who appeared on television shows in 2013. She appeared on two occasions as Brittany Gold on the TV show Kirstie in 2013. She appeared in five episodes of BoJack Horseman from 2014 to 2019. In the live action Disney Channel original film, Descendants (2015), Chenoweth played Maleficent. "Chenoweth stole a lot of the show," the Entertainment Weekly reviewer said. To date, it had the most avid cable TV movie audience of 2015. Chenoweth appeared in an episode of I Get That Lot, posing as a waitress, and co-hosted the 69th Tony Awards, for which she was nominated for another Emmy Award later this year. In NBC's Hairspray Live, Chenoweth appeared Velma Von Tussle. In 2016, the country's youngest population was born in 2016.

In the Starz TV series American Gods, Chenoweth appeared as Easter in 2017. Lavinia Peck-Foster, an eccentric heiress accused of her husband's murder, hired Josh Segal and Associates to defend her, appeared on Trial & Error in 2018. She appeared on a NBC show A Very Wicked Halloween, hosted and singing Popular, among other things to commemorate Wicked's 15th anniversary on Broadway. Darci Lynne: My Hometown Christmas was her second appearance on NBC's Darcy Lynne. Chenoweth appeared on British television as a judge on an ITV special "All Star Musicals" in March 2019. Both she and Elaine Paige performed "I Know Him So Well" on their respective "I Know Him So Well" performances.

In November 2020, Chenoweth hosted a six-episode Food Network television competition show, derived from the game Candy Land. PBS aired a Wicked concert special in 2021, starring Chenoweth and Menzel, with "a starry line-up" of singers and actors appearing on the musical numbers. In the Apple TV+ parody musical comedy television series Schmigadoon, she appeared as the villainous Mildred Layton. For which she was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, the 2022 Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress was given. She joined Ariana Grande's staff as an advisor later this year.

Chenoweth made her theatrical debut in Topa Topa Bluffs in 2002 as "Patty." Maria Kelly returned to film in the 2005 film version of Bewitched, directed by Nora Ephron, after a few years away from film. Chenoweth appeared in five films, including The Pink Panther, RV, Running with Scissors, Deck the Halls, and Stranger Than Fiction in 2006.

Chenoweth performed "That's How You Know" from the film Enchanted at the 80th Academy Awards in the Kodak Theatre on February 24, 2008. Rosetta, the garden fairy in the 2008 animated film Tinker Bell, was also a singer on an array of songs. Chenoweth appeared in the 2008 holiday romantic comedy film Four Christmases, playing the sister of Reese Witherspoon's character.

Chenoweth appeared as a "suicidal prostitute" in the indie film Into Temptation, written and directed by Patrick Coyle in 2009. The film was screened at the Newport Beach Film Festival and then released on DVD. Chenoweth appeared in Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure in 2009 and directed the Disney film You Again (released in 2010). In the 2014 animated film Rio 2, she sang Gabi, a poisonous frog. She appeared with Jennifer Lopez and Ryan Guzman in the dramatic film The Boy Next Door in 2015 and portrayed Fifi, Snoopy's love interest in The Peanuts Movie. In the animated film The Star (2017), she appeared as Princess Skystar in the 2017 animated film My Little Pony and Abby the Mouse.

Chenoweth has appeared on A Prairie Home Companion for the past. Chenoweth released an internet video with Funny or Die's Kristin Chenoweth on August 27, 2008. The video parodied A&E's Intervention, with Chenoweth leading as a singing, dancing interventionist. Andrew Lippa composed the song with lyrics by Amy Rhodes, who also wrote the script. Chenoweth confessed that she was hesitant to perform the lyrics.

In 2010, she appeared in a three-minute video short for Glamour Magazine titled "iPad or Bust." In the March 2006 edition of FHM magazine, she posed for the frontpage and a photo spread. Chenoweth's first television music video on Country Music Television, directed by Roman White, was released in 2011. "I Want Somebody." According to CMT's Top 20 Countdown, the single's video hit the top 20 places on CMT's Top 20 Countdown.

Chenoweth has a distinct speaking voice, one she has compared to Betty Boop's. She is a classically trained coloratura soprano, capable of singing "F6" (also known as "F above High C").

Chenoweth appeared in a studio cast recording of The Most Happy Fella in 1992, among other early recordings. She appeared on A New Brain's (1998) and You're a Good Man's (1999) and a studio cast recording of 110 in the Shade (1999). She appeared on the album Grateful: The Songs of John Bucchino in 2000. Mandy Patinkin was one of the album's most popular characters last year. She released Let Yourself Go, her debut solo album, in 2001, which was a series of 1930s musicals. Jason Alexander's duet was included on one of the tracks. In October 2002, Chenoweth performed tracks from the album in an intimate concert series for Lincoln Center's American Songbook collection. "A joyful affair" was praised by Ben Rimalower of Playbill. In the Actor's Fund Benefit Concert of the musical Funny Girl in New York City the same year, she appeared as Fanny Brice. She appeared in London as part of director Sam Mendes' Divas at the Donmar series in 2003. In the cast recording of Wicked and Disney's The Music Man's soundtrack recording, she sang Glinda. On the album, Rimalower wrote that Chenoweth "sparkles." She released As I Am, her second album, which contained a collection of spiritual songs, in 2004. According to the United States Christian Albums Chart, the album ranked at number 31. Chenoweth performed a concert at Carnegie Hall the same year.

Chenoweth Live At The Met on January 19, 2007, making history by becoming only the third musical theatre actor to perform a solo performance at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, following Barbara Cook and Yves Montand. She appeared on Just Before Sunrise, Nathan Gunn's first year on the same album. She recorded A Lovely Way to Spend Christmas in 2013, and this year she will release her third solo studio album, A Lovely Way to Spend Christmas. The album featured a duet with John Pizzarelli, and there are several modern holiday tunes on the album, but there are also some traditional carols, including The Lord's Prayer. This album has been her best-seller, debuting at number 77 on the US charts, proving that this album is the best-seller on the internet. Billboard Albums Chart, number 7 on the US Holiday Albums chart and number 1 on the US Heatseekers chart, ranked 7 on the U.S. Holiday Albums chart and charted number 1. "Proved an excellent showcase for [Chenoweth's] numerous gifts," Ben Rimalower, a Playbill musician, said on the album. Chenoweth appeared at the Fox Theatre in 2009 at a number of other solo performances around the country.

Chenoweth's fourth album, titled Some Lessons Learned, was released in August 2010. The album was released on September 13, 2011, and among other things are songs by Diane Warren, Dolly Parton, and Lady Antebellum's Hillary Scott. Two of the songs were co-written by Chenoweth. Chenoweth released the song "I Want Somebody (Bitch About)" in advance of the album. The album "may be Chenoweth's most accomplished," Ben Rimalower, a Playbill writer, thought. Chenoweth, "Bless Be the Ties Bind," "Jesus Take the Wheel," "Prayer of St. Francis," and "This Little Light of Mine" from the television series GCB in 2012. In the summer of 2012, Chenoweth conducted her first U.S. concert tour. "Kristin shines on stage," the reviewer for BroadwayWorld.com said.

Chenoweth performed in California for a short sequence of dates, combining pop, Broadway, gospel, and country with perky, unforced emotion, less than four months after her injury on July 2012, she returned to the stage for a short set of dates, where she performed "a sagely programmed 90-minute set" that mixed pop, Broadway, gospel, and country. Chenoweth's range, timbre, and versatility are in peak form, with stunning top notes, equalized registers, and a deceptive ability to vary attack from number to number. Chenoweth appeared at the Sydney Opera House in 2013 as part of an Australian concert tour. Chenoweth performed "as good a rendition of 'Much More' as we're ever likely to hear" in Carnegie Hall in 2014. "Chenoweth undeniably knows how to engulf a venue, not only with her (sometimes) strong, operatic voice but also with her irresistible demeanor that the audience was in the palm of her hands for the duration of the evening," a reviewer wrote. On October 6, 2014, she joined Andrew Lippa in his oratorio I Am Harvey Milk at Avery Fisher Hall.

Chenoweth's album titled Coming Home was released in 2014. At No. 1, the album debuted at No. 1 in the United States. On the Billboard 200 chart, 48 is 48. Throughout 2017, Her Coming Home Tour continued. In 2016, Chenoweth's fourth album, The Art of Elegance, debuted at No. 10 in the U.S. On the Billboard 200 and No. 1, 36 are at 36 places. 1 on the Billboard Jazz Albums chart. "I'm a Fool to Want You," one of the album's arrangements, has been nominated for a Grammy Award. In 2016, she performed at The Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, titled My Love Letter to Broadway. "She put on a spectacular show and simultaneously established a heartfelt friendship with her followers" in 2017.

On September 27, 2019, Chenoweth unveiled her album For the Girls, which includes stories of female artists from various genres that have inspired her. On the album, she worked with Dolly Parton, Reba McEntire, Jennifer Hudson, and Ariana Grande. Kristin Chenoweth: For the Girls, a recording series, was on sale at the Nederlander Theatre from November 8 to 17, 2019. In October 2021, she released Happiness Is Christmas, her second holiday album, and it was back to the Metropolitan Opera House with a new theme, Christmas at the Met, on December 13, 2021, to market the album.

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