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Chip Zien

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Claim to fame

Chip Zien's Broadway career spans almost 40 years. His most notable role was the Baker in the original Broadway production of Into the Woods. Zien's other Broadway credits include Grand Hotel, Falsettos, Les Miserables, The Boys from Syracuse, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Suicide, The Country Girl and The People in the Picture.

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Broadway veteran Chip Zien reconnects with Roundabout resident director Scott Ellis, who worked with Zien in The Boys from Syracuse in 2002.

May we suggest a double date for Chip Zien (with wife Susan Pilarre) and Big Knife director Doug Hughes (with girlfriend Kate Jennings Grant)?

Richard Kind, Reg Rogers, Rachel Brosnahan and Chip Zien greet the crowd’s thunderous applause.

Richard Kind as Marcus Hoff, Bobby Cannavale as Charlie Castle and Chip Zien as Nat Danziger in The Big Knife.

Chip Zien as Nat Danziger, Bobby Cannavale as Charlie Castle, Richard Kind as Marcus Hoff and Reg Rogers as Smiley Coy in The Big Knife.

The entire company of The Big Knife (plus director Doug Hughes, seated next to Cannavale) strikes a pose on the rehearsal set. Come see the real thing at the American Airlines Theatre this spring!

Let’s hear it for the men! Richard Kind, Reg Rogers, Chip Zien and Bobby Cannavale will suit up as Hollywood's tastemakers in The Big Knife.

Noah Robbins as Moishe Bretzky, Daniel Oreskes as Pinchas Pelovits, Chip Zien as Vasily Korinsky and Ron Rifkin as Yevgeny Zunser in The Twenty-Seventh Man.

Chip Zien as Vasily Korinsky, Ron Rifkin as Yevgeny Zunser, Noah Robbins as Moishe Bretzky and Daniel Oreskes as Pinchas Pelovits in The Twenty-Seventh Man.

Byron Jennings as Agent in Charge and Chip Zien as Vasily Korinsky in The Twenty-Seventh Man.

Ah! It’s Into the Woods’ original Baker and Baker’s Wife Chip Zien (who plays the Mysterious Man in the current production) and Tony winner Joanna Gleason.

Chip Zien starred in the original Into the Woods as the Baker and now he stars in the revival as the Mysterious Man.

Chip Zien as Mysterious Man and Denis O'Hare as the Baker in Into the Woods.

Chip Zien is headed to the Delacorte stage in Into the Woods.

Sometimes a team player like Parker helps castmate Chip Zien out with handy notes: "I need you to emote more."

Chip Zien is feeling fine with Donna Murphy, Nicole Parker and Rachel Resheff by his side.

Broadway vets and People in the Picture co-stars Chip Zien and Hal Robinson laugh it up on their latest opening night.

Chip Zien smiles for our camera with his lovely wife.

Alexander Gemignani as Moishe, Chip Zien as Yoshie Pinsker, Donna Murphy as Bubbie, Joyce Van Patten as Chayesel and Lewis J. Stadlen as Avram Krinsky in People in the Picture.

Broadway regular Chip Zien will soon be back on the New York stage in Roundabout's new musical, The People in the Picture.

Robert Sella and Chip Zien, who play the bumbling spy duo of Boris and Goran.

Onstage twins Lee Wilkof and Chip Zien bring comic kick to The Boys from Syracuse.

Robert Sella, Raúl Esparza and Chip Zien.

Katie Finneran and Chip Zien (who starred in Maury Yeston's Grand Hotel) arrive at the theater.

Strouse with cast member Chip Zien (soon to beseen in The Country Girl) and Lee Adams. Strouseand Adams have collaborated on morethan seven musicals together.

Supporting players Chip Zien, Anna Camp and Remy Auberjonois soak up the applause.

Marc Kudisch just loooves his co-stars, like Chip Zien.

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Bobby Cannavale and The Big Knife’s All-Star Cast Send a Love Letter to Hollywood on Opening Night

On opening night of The Big Knife, Bobby Cannavale and the cast of the first-ever Broadway revival of Clifford Odets’ movie star drama explained their love of the swanky world of old Hollywood and why the show remains as important as ever.

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Chip Zien

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Squigs Transports Bobby Cannavale and Company to Tinseltown in The Big Knife

Bobby Cannavale and The Big Knife’s All-Star Cast Send a Love Letter to Hollywood on Opening Night

Bobby Cannavale and the Cast of The Big Knife Ring In a Glitzy Opening Night on Broadway

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