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Kristin has received an Emmy Nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Comedy Series
Kristen Chenoweth has been nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her portrayal of Olive Snook on the abc hit "Pushing Daisies".
Kristin is the Voice of Killowatt in Space Chimps
Kristin Chenoweth is the voice of the lonely alien, Killowatt, in the new animated feature film by Fox, Space Chimps. Space Chimps is produced by Barry Sonnenfeld and stars Andy Samberg and Cheryl Hines. Check out the trailer here http://www.spacechimpspower.com/
Kristin Releases a Memoir, "A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love and Faith In Stages"
Kristin will be releasing a memoir titled, "A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love and Faith In Stages" a candid account of the Oklahoma-born actress's life, from her adoption to her Tony-nominated turn in Wicked to her work in Hollywood. Chenoweth will address the challenges she's faced in balancing her faith, family, private life and public persona. "A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love and Faith In Stages" is set to release Spring 2009.
Kristin Among People's Best Dressed
Kristin made People.com's Best Dressed list for the 2008 Academy Awards!  Check out the photo and blurb from People.com.
Kristin's Interview with Entertainment Tonight
Check out Kristin's pre-Oscar rehearsal and interview with Entertainment Tonight!
Kristin Featured In L.A. Times
The L.A. Times features a piece on Kristin prepping for her upcoming Oscar performance on Sunday. Check it out at the L.A. Times website.
Kristin To Perform At Academy Awards on February 24th!
Kristin will be performing the Oscar-nominated song "That's How You Know" from the film "Enchanted" at the 80th Annual Academy Awards!  Read more about her performance and other stars' appearances from Playbill.  Catch the live telecast February 24th at 8 PM on ABC!
Catch Kristin On Leno February 15th!
Make sure to catch Kristin as a guest on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on February 15th!
"Pushing Daisies" nominated for People's Choice Award!
Kristin's new show "Pushing Daisies" has been nominated for a People's Choice Award in the category of Favorite New TV Comedy!  Vote for it now at pcavote.com!
Kristin is Olive Snook on Pushing Daises on ABC!
Kristin is Olive Snook - a waitress at the Pie Hole, as well as Ned's neighbor, Olive is a tenacious sprite. Her can do attitude can do anything, except win the heart of the Pie Maker. She must settle for the company and affection of Digby, who relishes her caring touch: Grown up Ned (Lee Pace) puts his talent to good use by touching dead fruit and making it ripe with everlasting flavor. He opens a pie shop. But his gift leaves him wary of becoming close to anyone, as beautiful waitress Olive Snook (Kristin Chenoweth) finds out. His life as a pie maker gets more complicated when private investigator Emerson Cod (Chi McBride) finds out about Ned's secret. Emerson convinces the cash-strapped Ned to help him solve murder cases (and collect the hefty reward fees) by raising the dead and getting them to name their killers. Then Ned is handed the case that changes his life forever. His childhood sweetheart, Charlotte "Chuck" Charles (Anna Friel), is murdered on a cruise ship under strange circumstances. Her death brings him back to his hometown of Coeur d' Coeurs to bring Chuck back to life, albeit briefly, and solve the crime. But once reunited with Chuck, Ned can't bring himself to send her back. He helps her escape after her grieving aunts, Lily and Vivian (Swoosie Kurtz, Ellen Greene), former synchronized swimmers Darling Mermaid Darlings, think they've buried her forever. Chuck becomes the third partner in Ned and Emerson's PI enterprise, but she encourages them to use their skills for good, not just for profit. Ned is overjoyed to be reunited with Chuck, the only girl he's ever loved. Life would be perfect, except for one cruel twist -- if he ever touches her again, she'll go back to being dead, this time for good. Check out 'Pushing Daises' on ABC Wednesday nights at 8pm!
Kristin Chenoweth RSS News Feed
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Check Out Kristin's New 'Do' on Perez Hilton.com
In preparation for her new show, Pushing Daisies, on ABC this fall, Kristin is sporting a new 'do'! Go to www.perezhilton.com for photos and stayed for more news on Kristin and her new show!
Kristin Chenoweth Joins Nathan Gunn On His New Album!
Nathan will be releasing his new disc with Sony/BMG, Just before Sunrise, August 7th. Kristin Chenoweth joins him for John Bucchino's "It Feels Like Home." Stay Tuned for more details!
Kristin Chenoweth lends her talent in Space Chimps
From Broadway World.com According to The Hollywood Reporter, one of Tony Award-winner Kristin Chenoweth's upcoming roles will be of an unearthly variety. Chenoweth (The Apple Tree, Wicked, Running with Scissors, "The West Wing") will voice the role of a "helpful alien" in the CG-animinated feature comedy Space Chimps, which will also feature Jeff Daniels (Blackbird), Stanley Tucci (Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune), "Saturday Night Live" stars Andy Samberg and Kenan Thompson, Patrick Warburton and Cheryl Hines. It will be released next year. According to the article, "Samberg will play Ham III, the ne'er-do-well grandson of the first chimp astronaut sent into space. Seeking to capitalize on the Ham family name, a senator (Tucci) recruits Ham III to travel through a black hole to a planet where he and his simian colleagues (Hines, Warburton) help rid the aliens of an evil leader (Daniels)." Written and directed by Kirk DeMicco (Racing Stripes), the film will be produced by Barry Sonnenfeld, who also serves as a creative consultant, and Vanguard CEO John Williams, in association with Odyssey Entertainment. It will feature a score by the Eurythmics' Dave Stewart, with additional music and sound design composed by Blue Man Group.
2007 Drama Desk Award Nominations Announced
As previously announced, Kristin Chenoweth -- who was nominated as Outstanding Actress in a Musical for The Apple Tree -- will host the awards ceremony on Sunday, May 20 at the F.H. LaGuardia Concert Hall. The event will be telecast by PBS on Sunday, May 27 at 12:30pm and by NYC TV (Channel 25) on Thursday, May 24 at 8pm and Saturday, May 26 at 10pm. The ceremony will be webcast live by TheaterMania.com. Manhattan Theatre Club's production of LoveMusik, a new musical about the love affair between composer Kurt Weill and singer Lotte Lenya, received 12 nominations -- the most for any show. Three other Broadway musicals, Curtains, Legally Blonde, and Spring Awakening, received 10 nominations each. The Off-Broadway musical In the Heights received nine nominations as well as a special award for Outstanding Ensemble (which meant none of its cast members were eligible for individual awards). Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia received 10 nominations, the most for any play, while Frost/Nixon and Jack Goes Boating each received four nominations. Company received six nominations, the most for any revival. In total, 34 shows received two or more nominations. The Broadway show Deuce was declared ineligible by its producers, while Grey Gardens, a winner last year, did not have enough new elements to be deemed eligible. Among the eligible Broadway shows that were shut out of nominations are the revival of A Chorus Line, Prelude to a Kiss, The Vertical Hour, The Times They Are A-Changin', Butley, Translations, and Losing Louie. In some categories, individuals received multiple nominations. Jonathan Tunick was nominated for his orchestrations of The Apple Tree and LoveMusik; David Korins was nominated for the sets of Essential Self-Defense and Jack Goes Boating; Scott Pask was nominated for the sets of The Coast of Utopia and Blackbird; and Anna Louizos was nominated for the sets of Curtains and In the Heights. Bob Crowley also received two nominations, one for the sets of The Coast of Utopia and one for the sets of Mary Poppins. This year's nominating committee consists of Barbara Siegel, chairperson (TalkinBroadway.com, TheaterMania.com); Glenda Frank (Plays International, nytheatre-wire.com); Tony Phillips (New York Press); Andrew Propst (Americantheatreweb.com and XM Sattelite Radio); Richard Ridge (Broadway Beat TV); and William Wolf, Drama Desk President (Wolfentertainmentguide.com).
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[800x600] [1024x768] [1280x960] Kristin Chenoweth is a Tony Award-winning Broadway star (Wicked, You're a Good Man Charlie Brown) and critic's darling (The New York Times praised her "joyful intensity" and her "high powered, down-home star quality," calling her a "glamorous chameleon...peppy and sweet, funny and sexy," "a full-tilt Broadway belter with interpretive intelligence to match her power"). Kristin is now making the transition to stardom in television and feature films. Kristin will be appearing in the films THE PINK PANTHER (with Steve Martin and Kevin Kline) and BEWITCHED (with Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell) set for release this summer. Her recurring role as Annabeth Schott, deputy press secretary for White House public relations on TV's THE WEST WING, has won her legions of new fans. Her dazzling, critically acclaimed performance in Leonard Bernstein's classic musical CANDIDE with the New York Philharmonic was taped for TV and was broadcast in January on PBS's Great Performances. Kristin returns to her spiritual roots for AS I AM her new album, in stores now. Kristin introduces Diane Warren's "Borrowed Angels," and covers songs from Amy Grant, Faith Hill, Sandi Patti & Trisha Yearwood. "As I Am" is available at the Sony Music Store. It is also available as an iTunes exclusive version with a bonus track!. Also available: "Let Yourself Go". LET YOURSELF GO, Kristin's first album for the label of standards, received rave reviews. Time Out called it "a charmer," adding, "even the warhorses sound fresh, because Chenoweth is a gifted actress who completely becomes the character she portrays in her songs." Billboard praised its "satiny renditions" of standards, her "playful phrasing" and "unique flair for comedy."
About Kristin
Kristin Chenoweth is a Tony Award-winning Broadway star (Wicked, You're a Good Man Charlie Brown) and critic's darling (The New York Times praised her "joyful intensity" and her "high powered, down-home star quality," calling her a "glamorous chameleon...peppy and sweet, funny and sexy," "a full-tilt Broadway belter with interpretive intelligence to match her power"). Kristin is now making the transition to stardom in television and feature films. Kristin will be appearing in the films THE PINK PANTHER (with Steve Martin and Kevin Kline) and BEWITCHED (with Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell) set for release this summer. Her recurring role as Annabeth Schott, deputy press secretary for White House public relations on TV's THE WEST WING, has won her legions of new fans. Her dazzling, critically acclaimed performance in Leonard Bernstein's classic musical CANDIDE with the New York Philharmonic was taped for TV and was broadcast in January on PBS's Great Performances. Kristin returns to her spiritual roots for AS I AM her new album, in stores now. Kristin introduces Diane Warren's "Borrowed Angels," and covers songs from Amy Grant, Faith Hill, Sandi Patti & Trisha Yearwood. "As I Am" is available at the Sony Music Store. It is also available as an iTunes exclusive version with a bonus track!. Also available: "Let Yourself Go". LET YOURSELF GO, Kristin's first album for the label of standards, received rave reviews. Time Out called it "a charmer," adding, "even the warhorses sound fresh, because Chenoweth is a gifted actress who completely becomes the character she portrays in her songs." Billboard praised its "satiny renditions" of standards, her "playful phrasing" and "unique flair for comedy."

"Stage center" is something like home to Kristin Chenoweth. She was born to be there. Broadway audiences know it well, from her show-stealing, Tony-winning performance in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown in 1999, to her triumphant star turn last year as Glinda the Good Witch in Wicked. She made her solo recording debut on Sony Classical in 2001 with a high-spirited, Broadway-flavored disc entitled Let Yourself Go. TV fans are getting to know her as smart-as-a-whip Annabeth Schott on The West Wing, and moviegoers will soon see her in everything from a feature film adaptation of Bewitched, starring Nicole Kidman, to a new edition of The Pink Panther with Steve Martin and Kevin Kline. The first "stage center" she ever knew was in the Southern Baptist church in which she was raised in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, where she discovered her love of singing and performing. The budding, diminutive singer/actress was so impressive that, when she was 12, she sang for the entire Southern Baptist Convention. The song was "I'm Four Foot Eleven and I'm Going to Heaven."

For all the head-turning success she has enjoyed in the last seven years, Kristin Chenoweth remains, in many ways, that talented little girl in church back in Oklahoma. She is a rising star in mainstream American show business, with all the bells and whistles, but she freely embraces the vigorous and inclusive faith with which she grew up. That has inspired As I Am, her latest recording for Sony Classical/Integrity, bringing together a rich and deeply felt collection of songs that range from classic hymns to contemporary pop hits - songs that are all about faith, all about love in its most spiritual and renewing sense.

As I Am combines favorite songs made famous by Faith Hill ("It Will Be Me"), Trisha Yearwood ("The Song Remembers When") and Amy Grant ("There Will Never Be Another") with contemporary Christian anthems ("Upon This Rock" and "Word of God Speak") and traditional favorites such as "Poor Wayfaring Stranger," "Just As I Am Without One Plea" and the Beethoven-inspired "Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee." For her fans, Chenoweth includes as a hidden bonus track "Taylor the Latte Boy," the charming love song to a Starbucks barista that has become an audience favorite in her live performances. The album is a recording she has wanted to make for some time - at first, in response to 9/11 - and it has emerged as exactly the inspiring, broad-ranging collection she first imagined.

The songs Chenoweth has chosen for As I Am - exuberant and uplifting, with a big heart and a positive outlook anchored in rock-solid faith and conviction - reflect what is constant in a woman whose personal journey has taken her from singing in a Baptist church to one-for-the-books Broadway stardom. In many ways, this music defines her, from the contemporary Christian pop she sang in high school and college to the Nashville-flavored sound for which she has always had an affinity. The conviction with which she sings carries the audience along with her, just as it does in her live performances. Even in more reflective or meditative songs, she sings on a surge of joy and hope - not platitudes and attitudes, but the real things. They can't be faked. And they are hard to resist.

"I think the songs reflect the way I feel, what I believe," Chenoweth says. "'There Will Never Be Another,' for instance, is an Amy Grant song I've always liked because it's about having all the things you've hoped for, and realizing that the most important thing you've got is faith. 'Word of God Speak' is exactly how I feel when I'm alone or in a crowd. It's about being by yourself, and really listening, realizing you don't need anything else."

"There had to be a Sandi Patti song on the record - there just had to be," she adds, referring to the beloved contemporary Christian diva with a powerful, soaring voice. "She was probably my greatest inspiration as a singer, and so I'm really happy that we've included 'Upon This Rock.' "

The release of As I Am comes just as Chenoweth's career is diversifying at a dizzying pace. In the spring of 2004, as she was wrapping up her run in Wicked and rehearsing the Pink Panther film, she realized a long-held dream by singing the role of Cunegonde in the New York Philharmonic's critically acclaimed, "dream cast" concert version of Leonard Bernstein's Candide. (Cunegonde's rollicking coloratura aria "Glitter and Be Gay" has become a staple in Chenoweth's repertoire.) The performance was taped for broadcast on PBS's Great Performances in January. Last fall, she joined the cast of the Emmy-winning series The West Wing, and she returns to New York in May in a tour de force portrayal of all three heroines in the City Center Encores! revival of the musical The Apple Tree. The Encores! series helped launch Chenoweth's musical theater career, and she won rave reviews for her performance in the series' production of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever.

Acclaimed for her distinctive comedic gifts as well as her wide-ranging musical abilities, Chenoweth made her Broadway debut in a production of Moliere's Scapin starring Bill Irwin, followed in the spring of 1997 by the Kander and Ebb musical Steel Pier, for which she won a Theatre World award. The next season, she appeared in the Encores! production of Strike Up the Band and the Lincoln Center Theater production of A New Brain. During the 1998-99 season, she created the role of Sally in the first Broadway production of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, sweeping the Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards as the season's Best Featured Actress in a Musical. Next, she starred in the Broadway comedy Epic Proportions, followed by acclaimed appearances in the ABC television adaptation of the musical Annie (as Lily St. Regis) and in the Encores! On a Clear Day You Can See Forever. In ABC's 2003 TV version of Meredith Willson's The Music Man, she starred as Marian the Librarian opposite Matthew Broderick in the title role. Chenoweth has also appeared on Sesame Street as Ms. Noodle and in Elmo's video/DVD "Elmo's World: Happy Holidays!", the first-ever Elmo's World holiday special. In the fall of 2003, she returned to Broadway a full-fledged star in Wicked, the biggest hit of the 2003-04 New York season, winning love-letter reviews from the critics as well as Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations for her performance.

She has also performed leading roles at the Goodspeed Opera House and the Guthrie Theatre, and she was chosen by the late Jerome Robbins as the guest soloist in his West Side Story Suite of Dances at New York City Ballet. On television, Chenoweth also starred in her own series Kristin for NBC.

She has won rave reviews for her eagerly awaited concerts for Lincoln Center's 5th American Songbook, in which she performed selections from her first Sony Classical album, and she also received critical acclaim for her performance in City Center Encores! 10th Anniversary Bash. She made her London debut in Divas at Donmar, directed by Oscar winner Sam Mendes, which opened to rave reviews, and appeared at the highly anticipated Actor's Fund Benefit Concert of the musical Funny Girl in New York City. She also appeared at the Village Theater in New York, in a one-night-only presentation of Earth Girls Are Easy, a new musical based on the original film script by Julie Brown, Charlie Coffey and Terrence E. McNally for the Lark Theater Company.

In 2003, Chenoweth was a part of ABC's An American Celebration at Ford's Theater with Kelsey Grammer, NBC's Salute to the Olympic Winners, The Kennedy Center Gala honoring Julie Andrews, an episode of Frasier on NBC, and A Capitol Fourth, her second appearance at the annual concert broadcast from the Mall in Washington, D.C., on July 4. As if she is not busy enough, Chenoweth continues to tour the country with her acclaimed concerts, singing both with symphony orchestras and with her combo.

A native of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, Kristin Chenoweth studied at Oklahoma City University, earning a bachelor's degree in musical theater and a master's degree in opera performance, performing a number of roles in the lyric coloratura category. She performed in the stage revue at Opryland and won a "most talented up-and-coming singer" award in the Metropolitan Opera National Council auditions, which resulted in a full scholarship to Philadelphia's Academy of Vocal Arts. En route to Philadelphia, she auditioned for an Off-Broadway show and got the part. She decided to forgo her scholarship to pursue a career on Broadway; a short time later, she was accepting a Tony Award.