Kristin Chenoweth
Stage Actress — born 1968
Kristin Chenoweth is a renowned American singer and actress.
Kristin Chenoweth is an American actress and singer whose three-decade career has produced one Tony Award (1999 Best Featured Actress in a Musical for You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown) and one Primetime Emmy Award (2009 Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for Pushing Daisies) — making her one of only six performers ever to win both the Tony and Emmy Awards in the same five-year period. She was born Kristi Dawn Chenoweth on July 24, 1968, in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. Her biological mother Lynn Penner gave her up for adoption at five days old, after which her adoptive parents Jerry Chenoweth (a chemical engineer) and Junie Smith Chenoweth (a homemaker) legally adopted her.
Her education at Oklahoma City University (B.F.A. in Musical Theater, 1990; M.M. in Opera Performance, 1992) launched her early-career path. Her 1996 New York City arrival and her subsequent 1997 Off-Broadway debut in the Off-Broadway musical Steel Pier launched her late-1990s American musical-theater public profile.
Her 1999 Broadway lead role as Sally Brown in the Broadway revival of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown — alongside Anthony Rapp — won her the 1999 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. Her 2003 Broadway original lead role as Glinda the Good Witch in Stephen Schwartz's Wicked (alongside Idina Menzel as Elphaba) — across the 2003–2004 Broadway run — produced her 2000s American Broadway public profile.
Her parallel American TV career has produced multiple defining American TV roles — particularly her 2007–2009 lead role as Olive Snook on ABC's Pushing Daisies (across which she won the 2009 Primetime Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series), her 2013 NBC TV variety series The Kristin Chenoweth Show, her 2013 Showtime TV series The Cleveland Show's recurring voice role, and multiple American Glee guest-star appearances. She has been continuously single across her career.
Her name Kristin is a Scandinavian feminine form of Christian (from the Latin Christianus). Kristin rose sharply in American naming through the 1970s and 1980s.
About the name Kristin
Gender: Female · Origin: Greek
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