STAGE TUBE: Kristin Chenoweth Wins 2009 Emmy Award!

Stage and Screen favorite Kristin Chenoweth has won the 2009 Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress In A Comedy Series. She starred in the ABC series "Pushing Daisies," where she was nominated for the Emmy Award and has won for her comic and inspired work.

Chenoweth is also set to guest judge on Fox's AMERICAN IDOL this season. Chenoweth joins Simon Cowell, Randy Jackson and Kara DioGuardi at the judges table for the Orlando auditions. The ninth season of AMERICAN IDOL will premiere on Fox in January 2010.

Kristin Chenoweth effortlessly transitions between television, stage and film. Television fans know her as Annabeth Schott on "The West Wing," and she was seen in the season finale of ABC's hit comedy "Ugly Betty." She portrayed Marian, the librarian, in ABC's movie version of Meredith Willson's "The Music Man;" Lily St. Regis in the television adaptation of "Annie"; and Mrs. Noodle on "Sesame Street." Ms. Chenoweth also starred in her own series "Kristin" for NBC.

Many remember her Tony Award-winning Broadway performance in "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown" and her triumphant star turn when she originated the role of Glinda the Good Witch in "Wicked," which earned her a leading actress Tony Award nomination. She also performed in the Broadway comedy "Epic Proportions" and in the Kander and Ebb musical "Steel Pier," for which she won a Theatre World Award. Ms. Chenoweth also performed in an Off-Broadway production of Moliere's "Scapin" for the Roundabout Theatre Company. Ms. Chenoweth starred in "Stairway to Paradise," an original Encores! production celebrating the great Broadway revue, and in the highly lauded limited engagement of "The Apple Tree" at Roundabout Theatre Company's Studio 54.

 

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