
Kristin Chenoweth
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1968-07-24 (56 years old)
Place of Birth
Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, USA
Kristin Chenoweth
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
Acting
Wicked: The Musical
as Galinda Upland
(2024)
Wicked
as Wiz-O-Mania Super Star
(2024)
Our Little Secret
as Erica
(2024)
Wicked: The Real Story
as Self
(2024)
(2024)
The Holiday Junkie
as Mimi (voice)
(2023)
Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love
as Self - Guest
(2023)
(2022)
Bros
as Kristin Chenoweth
(2022)
(2021)
National Champions
as Bailey Lazor
(2021)
(2021)
(2021)
(2020)
Roald Dahl's The Witches
as Daisy / Mary (voice)
(2020)
Holidate
as Aunt Susan
(2020)
The Disney Family Singalong
as Self
(2020)
(2019)
David Foster: Off the Record
as Self
(2019)
A Christmas Love Story
as Katherine Clark
(2019)
(2018)
(2018)
(2017)
The Star
as Abby (voice)
(2017)
My Little Pony: The Movie
as Princess Skystar (voice)
(2017)
Speech & Debate
as Kristin Chenoweth
(2017)
Class Rank
as Janet Krauss
(2016)
Hairspray Live!
as Velma Von Tussle
(2016)
Hard Sell
as Lorna Buchanan
(2015)
Descendants
as Maleficent
(2015)
The Peanuts Movie
as Fifi (voice)
(2015)
The Boy Next Door
as Vicky Lansing
(2015)
Strange Magic
as Sugar Plum Fairy (voice)
(2015)
The Opposite Sex
as Mrs. Kemp
(2015)
(2014)
Rio 2
as Gabi (voice)
(2014)
Showing Up
as Self
(2014)
Kristin Chenoweth: Coming Home
as Self - Hostess, Performer
(2013)
Family Weekend
as Samantha Smith-Dungy
(2012)
Hit & Run
as Debbie Kreeger
(2012)
(2011)
Glee Encore
as April Rhodes
(2010)
Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue
as Rosetta (voice)
(2010)
You Again
as Georgia
(2009)
Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure
as Rosetta (voice)
(2009)
12 Men of Christmas
as E.J. Baxter
(2009)
Into Temptation
as Linda Salerno
(2009)
(2008)
Tinker Bell
as Rosetta (voice)
(2008)
Four Christmases
as Courtney
(2008)
Space Chimps
as Kilowatt (voice)
(2008)
(2007)
(2007)
Sesame Street: Elmo's World: What Makes You Happy?
as Miss Noodle
(2006)
RV
as Mary Jo Gornicke
(2006)
The Pink Panther
as Cherie
(2006)
Stranger Than Fiction
as Book Channel Host
(2006)
Deck the Halls
as Tia Hall
(2006)
Running with Scissors
as Fern Stewart
(2006)
A Sesame Street Christmas Carol
as Christmas Carol (voice)
(2006)
(2006)
(2006)
(2005)
Bewitched
as Maria Kelly
(2005)
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
as Sally (segment "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown")
(2005)
Candide
as Cunegonde
(2003)
The Music Man
as Marian Paroo
(2003)
Wicked Broadway
as Glinda Upland
(2002)
Sesame Street: Elmo Visits the Firehouse
as Ms. Noodle
(1999)
Annie
as Lily St. Regis
Crew
(2024)
Wicked
Songs
(2019)
A Christmas Love Story
Executive Producer