Kristin Chenoweth | is an American singer and actress

Kristin Chenoweth | is an American singer and actress

Kristin Dawn Chenoweth is an American actress and singer, with credits in musical theatre, film, and tv. In 1999, she won a Tony Award for her overall performance as Sally Brown in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown on Broadway. In 2003, Chenoweth acquired wide to be aware for originating the position of Glinda inside the musical Wicked, consisting of a nomination for some other Tony. Her tv roles have protected Annabeth Schott in NBC's The West Wing and Olive Snook on the ABC comedy-drama Pushing Daisies, for which she won a 2009 Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. She additionally starred inside the ABC TV collection GCB in 2012.

Chenoweth sang gospel song as an infant in Oklahoma and studied opera before identifying to pursue a career in musical theatre. In 1997, she made her Broadway debut in Steel Pier, prevailing a Theatre World Award, before performing in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, and Wicked. Her other Broadway roles were in The Apple Tree in 2006, Promises, Promises in 2010 and On the Twentieth Century in 2015, for which she acquired some other Tony Award nomination. She has additionally appeared in 5 City Center Encores!, Off-Broadway and regional theatre productions.

Chenoweth had her sitcom, Kristin, in 2001, and has visitor-starred on many indicates, along with Sesame Street and Glee, for which she turned into nominated for Emmy Awards in 2010 and 2011. In movies, she has played frequently individual roles, including in Bewitched (2005), The Pink Panther (2006) and RV (2006). She has played roles in made-for-TV movies, which include Descendants (2015); done voice work in animated movies such as Rio 2 (2014) and The Peanuts Movie (2015) together with the animated TV series Sit Down, Shut Up; hosted numerous award indicates; and launched numerous albums of songs, inclusive of A Lovely Way to Spend Christmas (2008), Some Lessons Learned (2011), Coming Home (2014), The Art of Elegance (2016) and For the Girls (2019). Chenoweth also penned a 2009 memoir, A Little Bit Wicked.

 Personal life

Chenoweth sang the U.S. Countrywide anthem for the Yankees' Home Opener, 2010
In 2009, Chenoweth wrote a memoir entitled A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love, and Faith in Stages, describing her existence and profession, consisting of her adoption, her flip in Wicked and her time in Hollywood.

Chenoweth has spoken publicly approximately her son's secular religion; she describes herself as a "non-judgmental, liberal Christian".

According to The New York Times, whilst Chenoweth "assured her theater lovers that she helps gay rights, her Christian base became outraged; she became disinvited from performing at a Women of Faith convention in September 2005". Chenoweth released an album in April 2005, As I Am, a mixture of hymns and present-day Christian songs, with adult modern-day preparations. To promote the album, she made a look at The seven-hundred Club, which disappointed a number of her homosexual fans. She later said she thought that the "Pat Robertsons and Jerry Falwells of the arena are horrifying" and that she regretted acting at the show.

Chenoweth has dated numerous men in Hollywood, together with producer Dana Brunetti, actors Seth Green, Lane Garrison and Marc Kudisch (to whom she became engaged from 1998 to 2001), and producer/creator Aaron Sorkin. In Sorkin's Studio 60 at the Sunset Strip, the person of the Christian Harriet Hayes bears great resemblances to Chenoweth, and the relationship between Hayes and "east coast liberal Jewish atheist" (Hayes' description) Matt Albie is modeled after that of Chenoweth and Sorkin. For example, Chenoweth's choice to appear on The 700 Club and her falling out with Women of Faith was depicted with the Hayes person.

Chenoweth suffers from Ménière's disease, an internal-ear disorder which can reason vertigo, complications, and nausea, among different signs. She has stated that during some performances, she leaned on her co-stars to preserve her balance and that it has precipitated her to miss performances.

In May 2010, Chenoweth wrote in reaction to a piece of writing in Newsweek by Ramin Setoodeh, a brazenly homosexual creator. Setoodeh's idea that her Tony-nominated Promises, Promises co-big name, Sean Hayes, "comes off as wooden and insincere" in gambling the immediately individual Chuck and that Jonathan Groff has similar credibility trouble within the TV display Glee. He wondered whether any overtly gay actor may want to acceptably portray an immediate character. Chenoweth is known as the item "horrendously homophobic" and criticized Setoodeh's view as rationalizing "the equal type of bullying" that homosexual youths face in excessive school. Chenoweth argued that audiences "come to the theater to move on a journey" and do not care approximately an actor's sexual orientation. The story was picked up via important media, inclusive of The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times.

Early lifestyles

Chenoweth changed into followed when she became 5 days vintage through Junie Smith Chenoweth and Jerry Morris Chenoweth, both chemical engineers from Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, a suburb of Tulsa, and named Kristi Dawn Chenoweth. She has stated that she is of one zone Cherokee ancestry. At an early age, she achieved gospel songs for local church buildings. An appearing spotlight of her childhood turned into a solo appearance on the Southern Baptist Convention countrywide conference at the age of 12, where she completed the Evie tune "Four Feet Eleven". The refrain starts offevolved, "I'm handiest 4 ft eleven, but I'm going to Heaven" (Chenoweth is four toes 11 in (one hundred fifty cm) in height). After graduating from Broken Arrow Senior High School, in which she participated in faculty plays, Chenoweth attended Oklahoma City University, wherein she became a member of Gamma Phi Beta (Beta Omicron) sorority. She earned a bachelor's degree in musical theatre in 1990 and a grasp's degree in opera performance in 1992, analyzing below voice trainer and mentor, Florence Birdwell. While at OCU, Chenoweth competed in beauty pageants, prevailing the title of "Miss OCU" and was the second runner-up in the Miss Oklahoma competition in 1991. In 1992, Chenoweth participated in a studio recording of The Most Happy Fella.

While she became in university and running in the direction of her masters, Chenoweth carried out on the Lyric Theatre in Oklahoma City, amongst different regional theatres, in roles like June in Gypsy, Liesl in The Sound of Music, Fran in Promises, Promises and Tuptim in The King and I. As she finished her grasp's degree, Chenoweth participated in several vocal competitions and was named "maximum promising up-and-coming singer" inside the Metropolitan Opera National Council auditions, which came with a full scholarship to Philadelphia's Academy of Vocal Arts. Two weeks before school commenced, however, she went to New York City to help a friend circulate. While there, she auditioned for the 1993 Paper Mill Playhouse production of the musical Animal Crackers and got the role of Arabella Rittenhouse. She became down the scholarship and moved to New York to do the show and pursue a profession in musical theatre.

Career
 

Theatre
Television
Film
Other media
Recordings and concerts