Sutton Foster is a two-time Tony Award–winning actress, singer, and dancer, best known for her Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Award–winning performances in Thoroughly Modern Millie and Anything Goes. Additional notable performances include the title role in Jeanine Tesori and Brian Crawley’s Violet (Tony, Drama Desk, Drama League, and Outer Critics Circle nominations); Princess Fiona in Jeanine Tesori and David Lindsay-Abaire’s Shrek The Musical (Outer Critics Circle Award, and Tony, Drama League, and Drama Desk Award nominations); Inga in Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein; Janet Van De Graaff in Casey Nicholaw’s The Drowsy Chaperone (Tony, Drama Desk, Drama League, Outer Critics Circle, and Ovation Award nominations); Jo in Little Women (Tony, Drama Desk, Drama League, and Outer Critics Circle nominations); and most recently as Charity Hope Valentine in the New Group’s 50th-anniversary revival of Sweet Charity (Lucille Lortel, Drama Desk, and Drama League nominations). Foster currently stars as Liza in the critically acclaimed TV Land series Younger, created by Darren Star (Sex and the City). Previously, Foster starred as Michelle Simms in Amy Sherman-Palladino’s ABC Family series Bunheads, which garnered her a Critics’ Choice Television Award nomination for Best Actress in a Comedy Series. Her television career began on Star Search at the age of 15; more recent credits include HBO’s comedy series Flight of the Conchords, USA Network’s Royal Pains, Law & Order: SVU, and Elementary. She has also made guest appearances on the well-known Disney children series “Johnny and the Sprites” and PBS’s Sesame Street. As a solo artist, Foster has toured the country with her hit solo concert, which featured songs from her debut album Wish as well as her follow-up album An Evening With Sutton Foster: Live at the Cafe Carlyle. She has graced the stages of Carnegie Hall, Feinstein’s, Lincoln Center’s “American Songbook” series, and many others. In June 2018, she released her third solo album, Take Me to the World, through Ghostlight Deluxe. Foster made her feature-film debut in Phil Alden Robinson’s The Angriest Man in Brooklyn and appeared in James Roday’s comedy-horror film Gravy.
