Kristin Chenoweth

Kristin Chenoweth

Chenoweth at the 2008 Primetime Emmy Awards
Born Kristi Dawn Chenoweth
July 24, 1968 (1968-07-24) (age 42)
Broken Arrow, Oklahoma,
United States
Occupation Actress, singer, author
Years active 1991 – present
Website
http://www.kristinchenoweth.com/

Kristin Chenoweth (born July 24, 1968) is an American singer, musical theatre, film and television actress, and author. She is best known on Broadway for her performance as Sally Brown in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (1999), for which she won a Tony Award, and for originating the role of Glinda in the musical Wicked (2003). Her best-known television role is Annabeth Schott in NBC's The West Wing. As Olive Snook on the ABC comedy-drama Pushing Daisies, she won a 2009 Emmy Award.

An Oklahoma native, Chenoweth sang gospel music as a child and studied opera before deciding to pursue a career in musical theatre. In 1997, she made her Broadway debut in Steel Pier. Besides You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown and Wicked, Chenoweth's stage work includes five City Center Encores! productions, Broadway's The Apple Tree in 2006 and Promises, Promises, opening in 2010, as well as Off-Broadway and regional theatre productions.

On television, aside from The West Wing and Pushing Daisies, Chenoweth had her own TV series Kristin in 2001 and has guest starred on many shows, including Sesame Street and Glee, for which she has been nominated for a 2010 Emmy Award. In films, she has played mostly character roles, such as in Bewitched (2005), The Pink Panther (2006) and RV (2006). She has also played roles in made-for-TV movies, done voice work in animated films and the animated TV series Sit Down, Shut Up, hosted several award shows and released several albums of songs, including A Lovely Way to Spend Christmas (2008). Chenoweth also penned a memoir, A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love, and Faith in Stages.

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Early life

Adopted at birth, Kristi Dawn Chenoweth was born and grew up in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. She has said that she is one-quarter Cherokee.[1] At an early age, she performed gospel songs for local churches. A performing highlight of her childhood was a solo appearance at the Southern Baptist Convention national conference at the age of 12, where she performed the song "I'm Four Foot Eleven and I'm Going to Heaven". (She is, indeed, 4 ft 11 in (150 cm).)[2][3]

After graduating from Broken Arrow Senior High, where she participated in school plays, Chenoweth attended Oklahoma City University, where she was a member of Gamma Phi Beta (Beta Omicron) sorority.[4][5] She earned a BFA degree in musical theatre[6] and a master's degree in opera performance, studying under voice instructor Florence Birdwell, who also trained Miss America 1981, Susan Powell, and three-time Tony nominee Kelli O'Hara.[4] It was Birdwell who suggested to Chenoweth that she add an "n" to her first name.[7] While at OCU, Chenoweth competed in beauty pageants, winning the title of "Miss OCU" and was the first runner-up in the Miss Oklahoma pageant in 1991.[2] For a period of time, she performed on stage at Opryland USA in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1992, Chenoweth participated in a studio recording of The Most Happy Fella.[8]

Chenoweth participated in a number of vocal competitions and was named "most promising up-and-coming singer" in the Metropolitan Opera National Council auditions, which came with a full scholarship to Philadelphia's Academy of Vocal Arts.[9] Two weeks before school started, however, she went to New York City to help a friend move. While there, she auditioned for the 1993 Paper Mill Playhouse production of the musical Animal Crackers and got the role of Arabella Rittenhouse. She turned down the scholarship and moved to New York to do the show and pursue a career in musical theatre.[9]

Career

Theatre

Kristin Chenoweth (holding her dog, Madeline Kahn "Maddie" Chenoweth) joins Laura Bush and celebrity models to raise awareness of heart disease in the Red Dress Collection Celebrity Fashion Show

After Animal Crackers, Chenoweth continued to appear in regional theatre productions, such as Babes in Arms and Phantom (as Christine; also touring in Germany in this role),[10] also taking roles in Off-Broadway productions like Louisa in The Fantasticks,[2] and Kristy in Box Office of the Damned (1994).[10] In 1997 she appeared as Hyacinth in the Roundabout Theater Company production of Moliere's farcical Scapin, earning her first New York Times review, with Ben Brantley writing "Kristin Chenoweth's sob-prone ingenue ... [is] delightful".[11] She made her Broadway debut in the spring of 1997 as Precious McGuire in the musical Steel Pier by Kander and Ebb, for which she won a Theatre World award.[2] The following season, she appeared in the City Center Encores! production of the George and Ira Gershwin musical Strike up the Band and the Lincoln Center Theatre production of William Finn's A New Brain.

In early 1999, she performed in the Broadway revival of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown as the title character's little sister, Sally, a character that was not present in the original production. The performance won Chenoweth the Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Featured Actress in a Musical.[12] She then starred on Broadway in the short-lived comic play Epic Proportions in 1999,[13] followed by starring in the leading role of Daisy Gamble in the Encores! production of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever in February 2000.[14]

After this, Chenoweth split her time between stage and TV or film roles and released her first solo album, Let Yourself Go (2001). In 2002, Chenoweth performed in the City Center Encores! 10th Anniversary Bash. In October 2003, she returned to Broadway (after the San Francisco tryout) in Wicked, the musical about the early years of the witches of Oz, in the joint-leading role of Glinda, the Good Witch of the North. She was nominated for a 2004 Tony Award as Best Leading Actress in a Musical for her performance, losing to her co-star Idina Menzel (who played Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West). Chenoweth was also nominated for the Drama Desk Award and the Drama League Award for this role. After playing Glinda for nine months, Chenoweth left Wicked, on July 18, 2004,[15] soon joining the cast of The West Wing in Los Angeles.

Chenoweth played Cunegonde in the New York Philharmonic revival of Candide, directed by Lonny Price, in May 2004. The production was also broadcast on PBS's Great Performances. A performance of the rarely sung duet "We Are Women", between Cunegonde and the Old Lady (played by Patti Lupone), was included in the production.[16]

From December 2006 to March 2007, Chenoweth starred on Broadway as Eve in a revival of The Apple Tree, receiving nominations for the Drama Desk Award and the Drama League Award. Her co-stars included Brian d'Arcy James and former fiancé Marc Kudisch. Chenoweth additionally hosted that year's Drama Desk Awards ceremony. Chenoweth played Elizabeth in the pre-Broadway workshop of Mel Brooks's musical theatre adaptation of his film Young Frankenstein, however, due to other commitments, she was unable to appear in the Broadway production. Similarly, in 2008 she had been scheduled to reprise her role as Cunegonde in an English National Opera production of Candide, but she had to pull out.[17]

She appeared in the Encores! semi-staged production of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's Music in the Air from February 5–8, 2009.[18] Chenoweth had been scheduled to return to The Metropolitan Opera in 2010 to play Samira in John Corigliano's opera The Ghosts of Versailles after being invited by general manager Peter Gelb to perform.[19] The Metropolitan Opera cancelled the production in 2008 as the economy in the U.S. weakened, because of the need to cut costs, with Gelb stating "It's a much more expensive revival than most."[20]

Chenoweth is currently starring as Fran Kubelik in the Broadway revival of the musical Promises, Promises, opposite Sean Hayes, which opened on April 25, 2010.[21] The songs "I Say a Little Prayer" and "A House Is Not a Home" have been added for Chenoweth to sing.[22] Chenoweth is scheduled to leave the show after the December 26, 2010 performance.[23]

Television work

After a guest appearance on LateLine, a role in the short-lived Paramour (1999) and several roles in television films such as Annie (as Lily St. Regis), Chenoweth starred in her own NBC sitcom, the semi-autobiographical Kristin in 2001. It was short-lived, with thirteen episodes filmed, but only six episodes aired.[24] She also guest-starred on such shows as Frasier (2001), Sesame Street (2004) and Ugly Betty (2007). Throughout the mid-2000s, Chenoweth appeared on several television programs and several television movies, in particular the leading role of Marian in the television film The Music Man opposite Matthew Broderick.[2]

In 2004, Chenoweth began playing the recurring role of media consultant Annabeth Schott in The West Wing. For her performance, she was nominated twice, along with the cast, for a Screen Actors Guild Award. She appeared in the final two seasons of the program. From 2007 to 2009, Chenoweth played Olive Snook in the television series Pushing Daisies. For her performance she received 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.[25] The series was cancelled after two seasons.[2]

In 2009, Chenoweth lent her voice to the animated comedy series Sit Down, Shut Up as Miracle Grohe, a science teacher who doesn't believe in science.[6] The series lasted just thirteen episodes. Later that year, Chenoweth guest starred as April Rhodes in Glee, singing several songs, earning enthusiastic notices. The character is a former member of the glee club who never finished high school and ended up hitting rock bottom.[26] A review in USA Today commented, "Her presence may not make much sense, but [if] it means hearing Chenoweth sing, we can put up with any explanation the show cares to offer."[27][28] She received a Satellite Award for Outstanding Guest Star.[29] In April 2010, Chenoweth returned to Glee as April, singing more songs.[30] The Los Angeles Times review commented, "the best part about 'Home' was undoubtedly the return of Kristin Chenoweth as April. ... From her spunky duet of 'Fire' with Schue, to the heart-achingly lonely coo of 'One Less Bell to Answer' which segued into a fantastic reprise of 'A House Is Not a Home' and of course her bone-chilling take on 'Home' ... I fell in love with her again. ... Is it in bad taste to predict an Emmy nomination in her future?"[31] She was nominated for a 2010 Emmy Award for her performances on Glee.[32]

Films

Chenoweth made her film debut in the film Topa Topa Buffs in 2002 playing the role of Patty. After several years away from film she returned to the big screen in the 2005 film version of Bewitched, directed by Nora Ephron. The film's star, Nicole Kidman, had attended a performance of Wicked and was so impressed with Chenoweth that Kidman asked Ephron to cast Chenoweth in the film. Chenoweth played the part of Maria Kelly, the Kidman character's neighbor.

In 2006, Chenoweth played supporting roles in five films, The Pink Panther, RV, Running with Scissors,Deck the Halls, and Stranger Than Fiction.

On February 24, 2008, Chenoweth sang "That's How You Know" from the film Enchanted at the 80th Academy Awards in the Kodak Theater.[33] She also voiced Rosetta, the garden fairy in the 2008 animated film Tinker Bell.[6] Later that year, Chenoweth appeared in the 2008 holiday romantic comedy film Four Christmases, playing the sister of Reese Witherspoon's character.

In 2009, Chenoweth starred as a "suicidal prostitute" in the indie drama Into Temptation under writer-director Patrick Coyle. The film was screened at the Newport Beach Film Festival and since then has been released on DVD.[34] Also in 2009, Chenoweth reprised her voice role of Rosetta in Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure and filmed the Disney comedy You Again.

Chenoweth hosted the 15th Annual Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards which aired January 15, 2010 on VH1.[35]

Internet

On August 27, 2008, Chenoweth released a video with Funny or Die titled Intervention with Kristin Chenoweth.[36] The video parodied A&E's show Intervention, with Chenoweth starring as a singing, dancing interventionist. The song was composed by Andrew Lippa, Chenoweth's frequent musical director and composer for her concert songs as well as the composer of "My New Philosophy", which she sang in the revival of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. The lyrics are by Amy Rhodes, who also wrote the clip.[36][37] Chenoweth admitted that she was hesitant about performing the lyrics.[37]

Almost two years later, she did a three-minute video short for Glamour Magazine entitled "iPad or Bust".[38]

Recordings and concerts

Chenoweth has a distinctive speaking voice, one she has compared to that of Betty Boop.[39] She is a classically trained coloratura soprano, with a vocal range of four octaves.[40] Chenoweth is able to sing the note "F6" (1396.913 Hz), also known as "F above High C".[41]

Among other early recordings, Chenoweth participated in a studio cast recording of The Most Happy Fella in 1992. She was also in the cast recordings of A New Brain (1998) and You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (1999) and a studio cast recording of 110 in the Shade (1999). In 2000, she was featured on the album Grateful: The Songs of John Bucchino. The next year, with Mandy Patinkin, she was featured on the album entitled "Kidults".[8] Also in 2001, she released her debut album Let Yourself Go, which was a collection of standards from the musicals of the 1930s. One of the tracks featured a duet with Jason Alexander. In October 2002, Chenoweth performed songs from her solo album, Let Yourself Go, in concert for Lincoln Center's American Songbook concert series.[42] The same year, she appeared as Fanny Brice in the Actor's Fund Benefit Concert of the musical Funny Girl in New York City. In 2003 in London, she performed a solo concert as part of the Divas at Donmar series for director Sam Mendes. Later that year, she sang Glinda in the cast recording of Wicked and the soundrack recording of Disney's The Music Man. In 2004, she released her second album As I Am, which was a Christian music album containing various spiritual songs. The album peaked at number 31 on the U.S. Christian Albums Chart. The same year, Chenoweth gave a concert at Carnegie Hall.[8]

On January 19, 2007, Chenoweth performed a solo concert at The Metropolitan Opera in New York, only the third musical theatre star ever to present a solo concert at that location, following Barbara Cook and Yves Montand.[43] The same year, she was featured in songs with Nathan Gunn on an album entitled Just Before Sunrise. The next year, she released her third solo studio album, entitled A Lovely Way to Spend Christmas. The album was much anticipated by both her fans and Chenoweth herself; she had expressed her desire in the past to produce a Christmas album. The album included a duet with John Pizzarelli and there are several modern holiday tunes, but many traditional carols as well including The Lord's Prayer. This album has been her best seller, reaching number 77 on the U.S. Billboard Albums Chart, climbing to number 7 on the U.S. Holiday Albums chart and to number 1 on the U.S. Heatseekers Chart. Among many other solo concerts around the U.S., Chenoweth performed her own concert in 2009 with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, at the Fox Theatre.[44]

As of August 2010, during her nights off from Promises, Promises, she flies to Nashville to record her untitled fourth recording.[45]

Special events and appearances

Chenoweth and the cast of the Broadway musical Wicked performed the song "One Short Day" in the 2003 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.[46]

In the 2005 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Chenoweth performed the song "Oklahoma" while riding aboard the "Oklahoma Rising" float. The float was making the first of three annual appearances commemorating the state of Oklahoma's statehood centennial in 2007.[47][48]

She was the star performer of the opening ceremony of the 2007 Tournament of Roses Parade. She sang "Our Good Nature," an original composition written to coincide with the Oklahoma centennial celebration and the theme of the parade.[49]

In the 2008 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, she performed the song "The Christmas Waltz" from her "A Lovely Way to Spend Christmas" album while riding aboard the "The Care Bears Winter Fun-Derland" float.[50]

She sang with Il Divo as part of Il Divo's Christmas Tour 2009 on December 15, 16 and 17 in New York City and December 18 in Boston.[51][52]

Personal life

In 2009, Chenoweth wrote a memoir entitled A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love, and Faith in Stages,[53] describing her adoption, her turn in Wicked and her time in Hollywood. She has stated that the book is not a "tell all", and instead focuses on "how I got where I am so far".[54] The book was released on April 14, 2009.[55] The book spent two weeks on The New York Times Best Seller List.

Chenoweth has spoken publicly about her faith; she describes herself as a "non-judgmental, liberal Christian".[56] Raised as a Southern Baptist, she later chose to have a personal connection to a faith that is not based in any one denomination. When in California, she attends a non-denominational church in Malibu; in New York, she attends a United Methodist Church.

Chenoweth has a large gay fanbase, and was uninvited from a Women of Faith conference in September 2005. According to The New York Times, "when she assured her theater fans that she supports gay rights her Christian base was outraged."[57][58] Chenoweth released an album in April 2005 called As I Am, a mixture of hymns and contemporary Christian music, with adult contemporary arrangements. To promote the album, she made an appearance on The 700 Club that upset some of her gay fans.[59][6] She later said she thought that the "Pat Robertsons and Jerry Falwells of the world are scary" and that she regretted appearing on the show.[60]

She has dated producer/writer Aaron Sorkin.[61] In Sorkin's Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, the character of Harriet Hayes bears significant resemblances to Chenoweth, and the relationship between the Christian Hayes and "East Coast liberal Jewish atheist" (her description) Matt Albie is modeled after that of Chenoweth and Sorkin. For example, Chenoweth's decision to appear on The 700 Club and her falling out with Women of Faith were depicted with the Hayes character.[62][6]

Chenoweth has Ménière's disease, an inner-ear disorder that can cause vertigo, headaches and nausea, among other symptoms. She has said that, during some performances, she has had to lean on her co-stars to keep her balance and that it has caused her to miss performances.[6] Chenoweth was awarded an honorary doctorate in Performing Arts from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts on May 30, 2009, where she was the commencement speaker.[63]

In May 2010, Chenoweth wrote in response to an article in Newsweek by Ramin Setoodeh, an openly gay writer. Setoodeh thought that her Tony-nominated Promises, Promises co-star, Sean Hayes, "comes off as wooden and insincere" in playing the straight character Chuck, and that Jonathan Groff has a similar credibility problem in the TV show Glee. He questioned whether any openly gay actor could acceptably portray a straight character.[64] Chenoweth called the article "horrendously homophobic" and criticized Setoodeh's view as rationalizing "the same kind of bullying" that gay youths face in high school. Chenoweth argued that audiences "come to the theater to go on a journey" and do not care about an actor's sexual orientation.[65] The story was picked up approvingly by major media including The New York Times[66] and the Los Angeles Times.[67]

Credits

Theatre

Broadway
Year Title Role Venue Notes
1997 Steel Pier Precious McGuire Richard Rodgers Theatre Theatre World Award
1999 You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown Sally Brown Ambassador Theatre Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical
Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical
Epic Proportions Louise Goldman Helen Hayes Theatre
2003 Wicked Glinda George Gershwin Theatre Broadway.com Audience Award for Best Onstage Pair (shared with Idina Menzel)
Nominated—Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical
Nominated—Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical
2006 The Apple Tree Eve
Princess Barbára
Ella/Passionella		 Studio 54 Broadway.com Audience Award for Best Diva Performance
Nominated—Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical
Nominated—Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical
Nominated—Broadway.com Audience Award for Best Leading Actress in a Broadway Musical
2010 Promises, Promises Fran Kubelik The Broadway Theatre Broadway.com Audience Award for Best Leading Actress in a Broadway Musical
Broadway.com Audience Award for Best Diva Performance
Nominated—Broadway.com Audience Award for Best Onstage Pair (shared with Sean Hayes)
Off-Broadway
Year Title Role Venue Notes
The Fantasticks Luisa Sullivan Street Playhouse
1994 Box Office of the Damned Kristy – The New Girl CSC Theatre
1997 Scapin Hyacinth Laura Pels Theatre
1998 A New Brain Nancy D./Waitress Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre
New York City Center Encores!
Year Title Role Notes
1998 Strike up the Band Anne Draper
2000 On a Clear Day You Can See Forever Daisy Gamble/Melinda
2005 The Apple Tree Eve, Princess Barbára, Ella/Passionella
2007 Stairway to Paradise Female star
2009 Music in the Air Frieda Hatzfeld

Filmography

Film
Year Film Role Notes
1999 Annie Lily St. Regis TV film
2001 Seven Roses TV film
2002 Topa Topa Bluffs Patty
2003 The Music Man Marian Paroo TV film
2005 Bewitched Maria Kelly
2006 The Pink Panther Cherie
RV Mary Jo Gornicke
Stranger Than Fiction Book Channel host
Running with Scissors Fern Stewart
Deck the Halls Tia Hall
A Sesame Street Christmas Carol Christmas Carole Voice role
2008 Space Chimps Kilowatt Voice role
Tinker Bell Rosetta Voice role
Four Christmases Courtney
2009 Into Temptation Linda Salerno
Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure Rosetta voice role
Twelve Men of Christmas E.J. Baxter Lifetime (TV network) movie
2010 Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue Rosetta in production, voice role
You Again Monique Leroux Awaiting Release
Television
Year Title Role Notes
1999 LateLine Kristin "The Christian Guy"
Paramour Mini-series
2001 Kristin Kristin Yancey Thirteen episodes
Frasier Portia Sanders Season 9 episode 10, "Junior Agent"
2002 Baby Bob Crystal Carter "Talking Babies Say the Darndest Things"
2003 Fillmore! Museum Guide Voice role, "Masterstroke of Malevolence"
2005 Great Performances Cunegonde Candide
2004–2006 The West Wing Annabeth Schott Thirty-four episodes, main character
Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series (2004, 2005) (shared with the cast)
2003–2006 Sesame Street Ms. Noodle Two episodes
2001–2007 Elmo's World Ms. Noodle Two episodes
2007 Ugly Betty Diane "East Side Story"
Robot Chicken various "Squaw Bury Shortcake"
2007–2009 Pushing Daisies Olive Snook Twenty-two episodes, main character
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress - Comedy Series (2009)
Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress - Comedy Series (2008)
Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress - Series, Miniseries or Television Film
2009 Sit Down, Shut Up Miracle Grohe Voice role, eleven episodes, main character
Legally Mad Skippy Pylon Pilot, never aired on television
2009–2010 Glee April Rhodes 2 episodes 2009–2010 "The Rhodes Not Taken", "Home"
Special Achievement Satellite Award for Outstanding Guest Star
Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress – Comedy Series
2010 American Idol Herself (guest judge #1) "Orlando Auditions"

Discography

Year Album details Peak positions Certifications
(sales threshold)
US US
Holiday		 US
Christ		 US
Heat
2001 Let Yourself Go — — — —
2005 As I Am — — 31 —
2008 A Lovely Way to Spend Christmas
  • Released: October 14, 2008
  • Label: Sony Masterworks (#8869734256)
  • Format: CD, digital download
 77 7 — 1
  • US sales: 80,000
2011? TBA — — — —
  • US sales: TBA
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Awards and nominations

Year Award Title Work Result
1997 Theater World Award Outstanding Broadway Debut Steel Pier Won
1999 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown Won
Outer Critics Circle Award Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical Won
Tony Award Best Featured Actress in a Musical Won
2004 Broadway.com Audience Award Best On Stage Duo (with Idina Menzel) Wicked Won
Drama Desk Award Outstanding Actress in a Musical Nominated
Drama League Award Distinguished Performance Nominated
Outer Critics Circle Award Outstanding Actress in a Musical Nominated
Tony Award Best Leading Actress in a Musical Nominated
2005 Screen Actors Guild Award Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series The West Wing Nominated
2006 Screen Actors Guild Award Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series Nominated
2007 Broadway.com Audience Award Best Diva Performance The Apple Tree Won
Best Leading Actress in a Broadway Musical Nominated
Drama Desk Award Outstanding Actress in a Musical Nominated
Drama League Award Distinguished Performance Nominated
Outer Critics Circle Award Outstanding Actress in a Musical Nominated
2008 Emmy Award Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series Pushing Daisies Nominated
Satellite Award Best Supporting Actress in a TV Series, Mini-Series or TV Movie Nominated
2009 Emmy Award Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series Won
Satellite Award Outstanding Guest Star Glee Won
2010 Emmy Award Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series Nominated
Broadway.com Audience Awards Best Leading Actress in a Broadway Musical Promises, Promises Won
Best Diva Performance Won
Best On-Stage Pair (with Sean Hayes) Nominated

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External links

Kristin Chenoweth
Studio albums
Let Yourself Go · As I Am · A Lovely Way to Spend Christmas
Filmography
Annie · Seven Roses · Topa Topa Bluffs · The Music Man · Bewitched · The Pink Panther · RV · Stranger than Fiction · Running with Scissors · Deck the Halls · A Sesame Street Christmas Carol · Space Chimps · Tinker Bell · Four Christmases · Into Temptation · Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure · Twelve Men of Christmas · Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue · You Again
Theatre
Steel Pier · You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown · Epic Proportions · Wicked · The Apple Tree · Promises, Promises
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