Date of Birth : 24 July 1968, Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, USA
Birth Name : Kristi Dawn Chenoweth
Nickname : Cheno
Height : 4' 11" (1.50 m)
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Kristin Chenoweth is an American stage, screen and television actress. Though, depending on who you ask, Cheno fans may disagree on what her most famous roles are. Since Chenoweth began her career, she has been credited with roles in musicals and plays on and off-Broadway, on various television shows and can be seen in movies on television and the big screen. She has also lent her recognizable voice numerous times to animated features.
Chenoweth was born in the small town of Broken Arrow, OK. Soon after her birth, Chenoweth was adopted by Jerry and Junie Chenoweth. She is very open about her adoption and has been known to support various adoption causes and organization around the US. Although Chenoweth knows the backgrounds of her birth parents, she has commented that she has little interest in meeting them. The Chenoweth family includes older brother Mark.
Chenoweth graduated from Broken Arrow High School and went on to study Musical Theater at Oklahoma City University. Under the guidance of Florence Birdwell, Chenoweth flourished in stage and vocal performance. She later received her Master's Degree in Opera Performance at OCU. An avid fan of all things Oklahoman, Chenoweth was inducted into the 2010 State Hall of Fame.
Fans of Kristin Chenoweth, the stage actress, have seen her stealing performances in Steel Pier, Epic Proportions, and The Apple Tree. In 1999, Chenoweth received the Tony Award for her performance as "Sally" in "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown". Chenoweth is well-known as the originator of "Glinda" in the 2003 mega-hit musical "Wicked". The role, written with Chenoweth in mind, earned her a Tony Award Nomination amongst many other accolades. Chenoweth returned to Broadway in 2010, alongside Sean Hayes in the Broadway revival of "Promises, Promises".
In January of 2007, Chenoweth became the third musical theater performer in history to have a solo performance at NYC's Metropolitan Opera. She has also performed with various Symphonies around the world. Chenoweth has recorded 3 studio albums. Those who know Kristin best from her various television performances remember her as the quirky, down on love, "Olive Snook" on "Pushing Daisies" (2007). The role won
Ms. Chenoweth an Emmy Award in 2009 for Best Supporting Actress. The show, ultimately canceled shortly after its 2nd season, is still considered by Kristin to be one of her favorite characters to play. In 2001, Chenoweth stared in the short-lived NBC comedy "Kristin" (2001). She has also been seen on "The West Wing" (1999), "Ugly Betty" (2006) and has a reoccurring role on Fox's "Glee" (2009) as the recovering alcoholic has-been, but lovable "April Rhodes" . Her appearances on "Glee" earned her a 3rd Emmy nomination.
Most recently, Ms. Chenoweth had a small part in the 2010 comedy, You Again (2010). She has also had roles in Four Christmases (2008), Deck the Halls (2006), Running with Scissors (2006) and Stranger Than Fiction (2006). In 2009, Chenoweth took on the challenging role as "Linda" in the film, Into Temptation (2009).
Broadway musical star and television actress Kristin Chenoweth first wowed the theater world with her 1999 Tony-winning performance in "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown." But it was her scene-stealing run in the musical hit "Wicked" that began her rise to fame. Though film studios squandered the tiny dynamo's boundless talents in broad-based duds like "Bewitched" (2005) and "Deck the Halls" (2006), Chenoweth was eventually recognized by television audiences for her charismatic and compelling performances on "The West Wing" (NBC, 1999-2006) and the quirky hit "Pushing Daisies" (ABC, 2007-09). Leaving no entertainment medium untapped, the blonde, bubbly Chenoweth released several albums of Broadway standards and contemporary Christian music, in addition to her recordings on cast albums and vocal appearances with the Metropolitan and Washington National operas. By the time she put her song-and-dance talents to good use on the hit musical drama, "Glee" (Fox, 2009- ), Chenoweth had established herself as a multifaceted performer worthy of public admiration.
Kristin Chenoweth was born on July 24, 1968. She was adopted at birth and raised in the Tulsa suburb of Broken Arrow, OK where, from an early age, she wowed churchg rs with her unusually developed (and loud) soprano. She was soon receiving singing invitations from other local churches, and at the age of 12, performed "I'm Four Foot Eleven and Going to Heaven" for the entire Southern Baptist Conference. Incidentally, the performer would only reach a maximum height of 4'11".
Chenoweth enjoyed doing school plays, but with the accolades her singing was receiving coupled with her love of contemporary Christian, country and opera, she enrolled at Oklahoma City University as a voice major. Her focus was on opera performance, but she also spent considerable time acting, appearing in college productions of classic musical dramas like "Oklahoma." To partially finance her education, she entered local beauty pageants and was named Miss Oklahoma City University and a runner-up for the 1991 title of Miss Oklahoma.
She went on to earn a Masters degree in Opera Performance, after which she auditioned for New York's famed Metropolitan Opera and was awarded the title of Most Promising Up and Coming Singer. The title came with a full scholarship to Philadelphia's Academy of Vocal Arts, but two weeks prior to beginning her studies there in the fall of 1993, she tagged along with a friend who was auditioning for an off-Broadway adaptation of the Marx Brothers musical, "Animal Crackers."
The unknown firecracker won over the producers, who offered her a supporting role despite her non-union status and lack of an agent or manager. With two enormous and distinctly different opportunities in front of her, Chenoweth had to make an important decision. Ultimately she knew that arias would not be enough to fulfill her passions for song, dance and comedy, so she accepted the stage role.
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