Idina Menzel
BirthPlace:Syosset, New York
BirthDate: 5/30/1971
Current Age: 37 years, 5 months and 18 days old
Idina Menzel is perhaps best know for her role of Maureen in “Rent”. She was an original cast memeber of the 1996 musical
and won a nod for a Tony award as best actress in a musical. While doing Rent she met her husband Taye Diggs.
She was also on the Rent Original Broadway Cast recording. She next appeared as Amneris in “Aida”.
Idina next major stage appearance was in Wicked-the musical. She played the role of Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West opposite
Kristin Chenoweth who played Glinda. For this role she beat out Kristin for the 2004 Tony Award for best actress.
It’s interesting that Idina has appeared in two of the most popular plays and cast recordings of recent times.
Idina and 5 other original cast member reprised their roles for the movie “Rent” in 2005.
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Idina Menzel Gives Final Performance As Elphaba In London-Brozzles said,
January 1, 2007 @ 10:58 pm
[...] BWW reportes that Idina Menzel gave her final London Performance as Elphaba in Wicked. It was reporte dthat she was making $30,000/week. That is a crazy amount of money but then again she has drawn in over a quarter of a million people. [...]
Idina Menzel and Salma Hayek-Celeb Roundup said,
January 7, 2007 @ 9:20 pm
[...] This picture is a little old but it’s a worthy post nontheless. It shows Idina Menzel, Salma Hayek and Idina’s husband Taye Diggs together at a party. [...]
Rosario Dawson Picture In A Tight Skirt-Celeb Roundup said,
May 14, 2007 @ 10:36 pm
[...] Here we see a Rosario Dawson picture showing off here awesome body as she meets some fans. She can currently be seen in Grindhouse and she was also in the movie version of rent which alos starred Idina Menzel. Dawson was born May 9, 1979 in NY,NY [...]