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person_profile-Kristin Chenoweth

Kristin Chenoweth Age: 56

Actor | Producer

Date of Birth:

Jul 24, 1968

Country of birth:

USA

Biography of

Kristin Chenoweth

    Kristin Dawn Chenoweth (born Kristi Dawn Chenoweth; July 24, 1968) is an American actress and singer, with credits in musical theatre, film, and television. In 1999, she won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance as Sally Brown in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown on Broadway. In 2003, Chenoweth received a second Tony Award nomination for originating the role of Glinda in the musical Wicked. Her television roles include Annabeth Schott in NBC's The West Wing and Olive Snook on the ABC comedy drama Pushing Daisies, for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2009. She also starred in the ABC TV series GCB in 2012, played Lavinia in Trial & Error in 2018 and was the antagonist, Mildred Layton, in the Apple TV+ musical comedy Schmigadoon! (2021).

    Chenoweth sang gospel music as a child in Oklahoma and studied opera before deciding to pursue a career in musical theatre. In 1997, she made her Broadway debut in Steel Pier, winning a Theatre World Award, before appearing 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 received another Tony Award nomination. She has also appeared in five City Center Encores!, Off-Broadway and regional theatre productions.

    Chenoweth had her own sitcom, Kristin, in 2001, and has guest-starred on many shows, including Sesame Street and Glee, for which she was nominated for Emmy Awards in 2010 and 2011. In films, she has played mostly character roles, such as in Bewitched (2005), The Pink Panther (2006) and RV (2006). She has played roles in made-for-TV movies, such as Descendants (2015); done voice work in animated films such as Rio 2 (2014) and The Peanuts Movie (2015) along with the animated TV series Sit Down, Shut Up and BoJack Horseman; hosted several award shows; and released several albums of songs, including 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 wrote a 2009 memoir, A Little Bit Wicked.

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Filmography of

Kristin Chenoweth

Found 66 Movies in total

The Holiday Junkie

Mimi (voice) ( Actor )

... 2024

... 2024

Wicked

Actor

... 2024

... 2024

... 2023

Bros

Kristin Chenoweth ( Actor )

... 2022

National Champions

Bailey Lazor ( Actor )

... 2021

Holidate

Aunt Susan ( Actor )

... 2020

Roald Dahl's The Witches

Daisy / Mary (voice) ( Actor )

... 2020

... 2020

A Christmas Love Story

Katherine Clark ( Actor )

Executive Producer

... 2019

... 2019

The Star

Abby (voice) ( Actor )

... 2017

My Little Pony: The Movie

Princess Skystar (voice) ( Actor )

... 2017

Class Rank

Janet Krauss ( Actor )

... 2017

Speech & Debate

Herself ( Actor )

... 2017

Hairspray Live!

Velma Von Tussle ( Actor )

... 2016

Hard Sell

Lorna Buchanan ( Actor )

... 2016

The Peanuts Movie

Fifi (voice) ( Actor )

... 2015

Descendants

Maleficent ( Actor )

... 2015

The Boy Next Door

Vicky Lansing ( Actor )

... 2015

Strange Magic

Sugar Plum Fairy (voice) ( Actor )

... 2015

The Opposite Sex

Mrs. Kemp ( Actor )

... 2015

Kristin Chenoweth: Coming Home

Herself - Hostess / Performer ( Actor )

... 2014

Rio 2

Gabi (voice) ( Actor )

... 2014

Showing Up

Self ( Actor )

... 2014

Family Weekend

Samantha Smith-Dungy ( Actor )

... 2013

Hit & Run

Debbie Kreeger ( Actor )

... 2012

Glee Encore

April Rhodes ( Actor )

... 2011

You Again

Georgia ( Actor )

... 2010

... 2010

12 Men of Christmas

E.J. Baxter ( Actor )

... 2009

Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure

Rosetta (voice) ( Actor )

... 2009

Into Temptation

Linda Salerno ( Actor )

... 2009

Four Christmases

Courtney ( Actor )

... 2008

Tinker Bell

Rosetta (voice) ( Actor )

... 2008

Space Chimps

Kilowatt (voice) ( Actor )

... 2008

... 2007

A Sesame Street Christmas Carol

Christmas Carol (voice) ( Actor )

... 2006

Deck the Halls

Tia Hall ( Actor )

... 2006

Running with Scissors

Fern Stewart ( Actor )

... 2006

Stranger Than Fiction

Book Channel Host ( Actor )

... 2006

RV

Mary Jo Gornicke ( Actor )

... 2006

The Pink Panther

Cherie ( Actor )

... 2006

Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards

Sally (segment "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown") ( Actor )

... 2005

Bewitched

Maria Kelly ( Actor )

... 2005

Candide

Cunegonde ( Actor )

... 2005

The Music Man

Marian Paroo ( Actor )

... 2003

... 2002

Annie

Lily St. Regis ( Actor )

... 1999

Wicked: The Musical

Galinda Upland ( Actor )

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