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Idina Menzel
Idina Kim Menzel is an American actress, singer and songwriter.
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Born 30 May 1971 · Q157400
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2026· 2 entries
Public attention spiked: 12,565 Wikipedia readers in one day, 5.8× the usual 2,171, with 0 article edits.
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2025· 3 entries
After 17 previews and 127 regular performances
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Published video “Somehow, it always comes back to taking a leap of faith! Videos by Tina Landau 💛 #redwoodmusical”.
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Published video “Feeling like I’m 300 feet high today as we open #RedwoodMusical on Broadway tonight!”.
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2024· 2 entries
Published video “Can’t wait to hit the road this summer! Tickets are on sale now for my #TMOLMTour at IdinaMenzel.com”.
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Alongside Chenoweth, Menzel made a cameo appearance during the "One Short Day" sequence in the first of the two-part film adaptation of Wicked
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2023· 11 entries
Published video “Love a Nile Rodgers intro #DramaQueen”.
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Published video “Windows down music up #DramaQueen”.
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Published video “The best kind of beast #dramaqueen”.
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Published video “I’m not like a regular mom… #dramaqueen”.
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Published video “Idina Menzel - Beast (Animated Video)”.
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Published video “The world’s your runway. #DramaQueen”.
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The Hollywood Reporter revealed that Menzel was no longer being represented by Braun, having left his management that January
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Published video “#DramaQueen is out today! 🪩”.
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Released album “Drama Queen”.
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Menzel released Drama Queen, a dance-themed pop album, via BMG Showcase
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Menzel played Bree Friedman in the coming-of-age comedy You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah, reuniting with Sandler
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2022· 5 entries
Menzel announced on her Instagram page that she would be releasing a concert special on Disney+ on December 9, 2022 titled Idina Menzel: Which Way to the Stage
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Won National Medal of Arts (2022).
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Awarded Disney Legends (2022).
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Menzel reprised her role as Nancy in the Enchanted sequel Disenchanted
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Menzel was announced as a recipient of a Disney Legends Award for her outstanding contributions to the Walt Disney Company, with her D23 entry reading "Whether on stage or screen, Idina Menzel’s unequivocal signature tal
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2021· 1 entry
Menzel co-starred alongside Camila Cabello, Billy Porter, and James Corden in Kay Cannon's jukebox musical adaptation of the Cinderella fairy tale, playing Cinderella's (Cabello) unkind stepmother, Vivian
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2019· 5 entries
Menzel released her second holiday album entitled Christmas: A Season of Love from School Boy and Decca Records on October 18, 2019
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Released album “Christmas: A Season of Love”.
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It was revealed that she had signed to Scooter Braun and SB Projects for music management
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Starred opposite Adam Sandler in the crime thriller Uncut Gems, playing his character's estranged and frustrated wife, Dinah Ratner
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Menzel and actress Kristen Bell, who plays her sister in Frozen, received neighboring stars—Menzel's was the 2682nd and Bell's was the 2681st—on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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2018· 5 entries
Released album “idina: live”.
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Opened on June 21, 2018, and ran for strictly limited engagement till August 26, 2018
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It was announced that Menzel would join Josh Groban for his Bridges Tour
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Menzel was cast as Jodi in Roundabout Theatre Company's World Premiere production of Joshua Harmon's new play Skintight
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NPR named "Let it Go" one of the 200 greatest female-performed songs of the 21st century, at number 182
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2017· 3 entries
Released ep “Beaches (Soundtrack from the Lifetime Original Movie)”.
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That traveled to Asia, Europe, and North America
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Irish songwriter Jimmy Walsh who was based in New York City said that in 1992, Menzel had recorded a demo for him of the song "In Your Eyes", which went on to win the Eurovision Song Contest 1993 for Irish singer Niamh K
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2016· 4 entries
Released album “idina.”.
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Menzel announced that she and Lohr were engaged
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Menzel announced she would release her eponymous fifth album, on September 23, 2016
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“I poured my heart out and used my music as a place to kind of figure some things out. It”
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2015· 2 entries
After 29 previews and 401 regular performances
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Menzel was slated to star on the Ellen DeGeneres–produced sitcom Happy Time, which would have been her first television role since Glee
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2014· 7 entries
Menzel announced through her Facebook page that she would be touring during the summer of 2015, making it her first global tour and first time playing shows in Europe and Asia
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Released album “Live: Barefoot at the Symphony”.
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Released album “Holiday Wishes”.
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During a concert at New York City's Radio City Music Hall, Menzel confirmed that she was working on a Christmas album that contained original material to be released later that same year
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Shortly after the success of Frozen, Suzy Evans of Billboard observed that audience reception was more akin to that of a "rock star" than a musical theatre performer
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Menzel returned to Broadway in the musical If/Then, for which she received a third Tony Award nomination
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Menzel was awarded "Breakthrough Artist" by Billboard
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2013· 2 entries
Menzel voiced Elsa – a reclusive young queen struggling with her magical ability to control ice and snow – in Disney's animated film Frozen
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In late 2013, it was reported that Menzel and Diggs had separated after 10 years of marriage.
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2012· 1 entry
That although Broadway does not guarantee global superstardom as often as it used to, Menzel is "a notable exception to the rule of Broadway’s declining clout"
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2010· 2 entries
Menzel performed "Defying Gravity" and "What I Did For Love" in front of President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama at A Broadway Celebration: In Performance at the White House
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Released ep “Idina Menzel”.
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2009· 1 entry
Sharing the title with Elton John, Patti LuPone, John Cameron Mitchell, Joan Rivers, and Robin Strasser
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2008· 7 entries
Performed "I Stand" on the M&M's Chocolate float as part of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
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Menzel released "Hope," written by Paul Hampton, benefiting Stand Up to Cancer
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Released ep “I Stand: Acoustic EP”.
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Menzel kicked off her 2008–2009 I Stand tour in support of her new album performing four sold-out legs
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Released album “I Stand”.
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Released ep “Brave / Gorgeous”.
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Headlined the Powerhouse Theatre's reading of Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik's musical Nero from July 11 to 13, performing the role of Nero's mistress, Poppea
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2007· 3 entries
Menzel appeared in the musical fantasy film Enchanted as Nancy Tremaine, the fiancée of Patrick Dempsey's character, Robert, and Giselle's (Amy Adams) romantic rival
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Menzel's powerful singing voice led her to be asked to accompany the baritone British X Factor runner-up, Rhydian Roberts, on his debut album, duetting on the song "What If"
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Appeared on the Beowulf soundtrack singing the end credits song, "A Hero Comes Home"
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2006· 1 entry
Played Vera Rivkin in Robert Towne's Ask the Dust, a romantic drama starring Colin Farrell and Salma Hayek
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2005· 3 entries
Fell through a trap door during the melting scene and cracked a lower rib
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Reprised the role in the musical's original West End production in 2006, becoming the highest-paid actress in West End theatre history
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When she reprised the role of Maureen Johnson in the film adaptation of Rent, directed by Chris Columbus
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2004· 2 entries
Awarded Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical (2004).
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Released ep “Here”.
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2003· 3 entries
With an official opening night on October 30
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Originated the role of Elphaba in the musical Wicked on Broadway, for which she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical
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Menzel was cast to star alongside Kristin Chenoweth in Wicked, a musical by Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman based upon Gregory Maguire's 1995 novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
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1998· 1 entry
Released album “Still I Can't Be Still”.
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1996· 2 entries
But it moved to Broadway's Nederlander Theatre due to its popularity
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Making her Broadway debut as performance artist Maureen Johnson in the rock musical Rent, which earned her a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Musical
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1995· 2 entries
Menzel auditioned for Rent, which became her first professional theatre job and her Broadway debut
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During the original production of Rent, in which Diggs portrayed Benjamin Coffin III, the landlord
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1992· 1 entry
Studied at New York University Tisch School of the Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts (1992).
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1971· 1 entry
Born 1971-05-30.
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