Chenoweth Takes 'Tempting' New Role in Indie

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Broadway and 'Pushing Daisies' star Kristin Chenoweth has signed on to the new indie film 'Into Temptation.'  The film  will be directed by Patrick Coyle who also wrote the screenplay, which won the McKnight Screenwriting Fellowship. 

Chenoweth plays a prostitute who plans to kill herself on her birthday. When she confesses this plan to a priest, to be played by Jeremy Sisto, he sets out on a quest to stop her. 

Shooting begins next week in Minneapolis. 

Kristin Chenoweth is well known for her appearances on stage, television, and in film. Her upcoming projects include the comedy Four Christmases, with Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn, and the comedy-animated adventure, Space Chimps, co-starring Cheryl Hines. She also appears in the ABC series, Pushing Daisies. Last year Ms. Chenoweth starred in Stairway to Paradise, an original City Center Encores production; the limited engagement of The Apple Tree at the Roundabout Theatre Company's Studio 54; and performed a sold-out solo concert at The Metropolitan Opera House. 

Ms. Chenoweth received a Tony Award for her performance in You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown, and originated the role of Glinda the Good Witch in Wicked (Tony Award nomination). She performed in the Broadway comedy, Epic Proportions, and in the Kander and Ebb musical, Steel Pier (Theatre World Award). Ms. Chenoweth also performed in an Off-Broadway production of Moliere's Scapin for the Roundabout. On television, Ms. Chenoweth has appeared as Annabeth Schott on The West Wing; the librarian, Marian Paroo, in ABC's movie version of Meredith Willson's The Music Man; and Lily St. Regis in the television adaptation of Annie. She also starred in her own series, Kristin, on NBC, and was seen in the season finale of Ugly Betty. 

Her theatrical releases include Deck the Halls with Danny DeVito and Matthew Broderick; RV with Robin Williams; Bewitched with Nicole Kidman; Running with Scissors with Annette Bening; and The Pink Panther with Steve Martin. Ms. Chenoweth is currently developing a feature film based on the life of Dusty Springfield, and is scheduled to make her Metropolitan Opera debut in March 2010 as Samira in John Corigliano's The Ghosts of Versailles. Ms. Chenoweth performs solo concerts nationwide and collaborates with various orchestras.

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