Kristin Chenoweth
1 FOLLOWER • 64 CREDITS • JUL 24, 1968 • 56
Biography
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.
Known For
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Late Night with Seth Meyers
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
American Dad!
Tony Awards
The Kelly Clarkson Show
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Good Wife
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
MADtv
Mom
Project Runway
The Early Show
BoJack Horseman
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Glee
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars
Frasier
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
Hollywood Game Night
RuPaul
American Gods
Ugly Betty
E! Live from the Red Carpet
Live from the Other Side with Tyler Henry
Hot in Cleveland
Baby Bob
Younger
Bros
Wicked
Stranger Than Fiction
Rio 2
The West Wing
Descendants
The Peanuts Movie
My Little Pony: The Movie
The Star
You Again
Schmigadoon!
The Disney Family Singalong
Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue
Roald Dahl's The Witches
Four Christmases
Sit Down Shut Up
RV
Strange Magic
Annie
Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure
Glee Encore
Bewitched
The Boy Next Door
Legally Mad
Pushing Daisies
Hit & Run
Deck the Halls
The Adventures of Disney Fairies
Trial & Error
Our Little Secret
Holidate
Tinker Bell
Kristin
Keeper of the Ashes: The Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders
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