Age: 55
female
Idina Kim Menzel (née Mentzel; born May 30, 1971) is an American actress and singer. Particularly known for her work in musicals on the Broadway stage and having achieved mainstream success across stage, film and music, Menzel has garnered the honorific title "Queen of Broadway" for her achievements. Her accolades include an American Music Award, a Billboard Music Award and a Tony Award, as well as nominations for three Drama League Awards and four Drama Desk Awards. In 2019, she was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to live theatre. Menzel rose to prominence as a stage actress in 1996, making her Broadway debut playing Maureen Johnson in the rock musical Rent, which earned her a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. After appearing in several smaller-scale stage and Off-Broadway productions, in 2003 Menzel originated the role of Elphaba in the Broadway musical Wicked, for which she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical. The popularity of the musical, Menzel's character and song "Defying Gravity" earned her a devoted following among theater fans. After leaving the show in 2005, she reprised the role in the musical's original West End production until the end of 2006, becoming the highest-paid actress in West End theatre history. In 2014, Menzel returned to Broadway as Elizabeth Vaughan in the musical If/Then, for which she received a third Tony Award nomination. Menzel began transitioning to film and television roles in the early 2000s. After reprising her role as Maureen in Rent's 2005 film adaptation, she was cast as Nancy Tremaine in Disney's musical fantasy film Enchanted (2007) and reprised her role in its sequel Disenchanted (2022). She had a recurring role as Shelby Corcoran on the musical television series Glee (2010–2013). Since 2013, Menzel has voiced Elsa in Disney's animated Frozen franchise. "Let It Go", a song she recorded for the first film, became widely popular upon release, winning an Academy Award for Best Original Song and reaching number five on the Billboard Hot 100, making her the first Tony Award-winning actor to have a top-10 song on the chart. Menzel also starred in the crime drama film Uncut Gems (2019) and in the jukebox musical film Cinderella (2021). As a recording artist, Menzel has released six studio albums: Still I Can't Be Still (1998), Here (2004), I Stand (2008), Holiday Wishes (2014), idina. (2016), and Christmas: A Season of Love (2019).
Idina Menzel
Tillie
for Tillie in The Adventures of the Little Engine That Could
Suggested by jacobfisher
This is a musical chronicle of a year in life for Tillie the Little Engine That Could and her friends like Disney animated films like Winnie the Pooh and Bambi - made in live action-animation in the style of Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends episodes with live actors composited into 1:32 scale model railway sets with engines' faces all 3-D computer animated by performance capture. Some scenes need engines to perform that are only possible via 3-D computer animation, but this film will do what it can with the practical miniatures and models. This film exposits on implications of sentient machine life. Tillie is a blue and yellow 4-4-0 American-type steam engine (like the General and Jupiter) who mainly works the yards of the Anthros Northern and Western Railroad in Nashville. When her close friend Georgia (a 4-4-0 like New York Central's #999) breaks down pulling the charity train for children over the mountains in Cumberland; Tillie steps up and believes in herself when all the other engines chicken out to take it over the mountains. After that; Tillie, Georgia and the other engines have some very unusual adventures together to make their railway run while trying to stop a diabolical diesel from taking it over at every turn.
