
Kristin Chenoweth
1 FOLLOWER • 66 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

The Oscars

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

Tony Awards

American Dad!

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

Glee

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Today with Hoda & Jenna

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

Descendants

The West Wing

Schmigadoon!

The Peanuts Movie

My Little Pony: The Movie

The Star

You Again

The Disney Family Singalong

Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue

Roald Dahl's The Witches

Four Christmases

Bewitched

RV

Strange Magic

Glee Encore

Annie

Sit Down Shut Up

Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure

The Boy Next Door

Hit & Run

Legally Mad

Deck the Halls

Pushing Daisies

Trial & Error

Holidate

Our Little Secret

The Adventures of Disney Fairies

Tinker Bell

Kristin

Keeper of the Ashes: The Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders
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