Sutton Foster

SUTTON FOSTER


 
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 Sutton Foster is a two-time Tony winning actress, singer and dancer who most recently starred on Broadway in the title role of the New Group’s 50th anniversary revival of Sweet Charity, directed by Violet director Leigh Silverman. She was nominated for another Tony Award in Jeanine Tesori and Brian Crawley musical Violet at New York’s Roundabout Theatre in 2014. She starred on Broadway in The Will Rogers Follies, Grease, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Annie, and Les Misérables before her big break and Tony Award-winning performance in Thoroughly Modern Millie. She has since then originated roles in the Broadway productions of Little Women, The Drowsy Chaperone, Young Frankenstein, and Shrek the Musical. She starred as Reno Sweeney in The Roundabout's revival of Anything Goes, a role that earned her the 2011 Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics, Astaire, and Broadway.com's Audience Favorite Awards. 

Sutton was first seen on television on Star Search at age 15, and has appeared in Johnny and the Sprites and Flight of the Conchords. More recently, she was the star of the ABC Family TV ballet ‘dramedy’ Bunheads, created by Gilmore Girls writer/producer Amy Sherman-Palladino. She is the star of the TV Land series Younger by Sex and the City creator Darren Star, and co-starring Hilary Duff and Debi Mazar. She has also recently appeared on the prestigious 36th Annual Kennedy Center Honors broadcast, where she performed a medley of hit Broadway songs made famous by honoree Shirley MacLaine, including “Something Better Than This,” “Steam Heat” and “She’s No Longer A Gypsy.”