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Idina Menzel is an American actress and singer known for her work in theater, film, and music. She is widely recognized for her powerful voice and has achieved major success in Broadway productions and film soundtracks, making her a prominent figure in entertainment.
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Person · Open Library
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- 12
Top works
- Let It Go
- Proud Mouse
- Proud Mouse 4-Copy Indie Signed Prepack
- Making Today a Perfect Day (from Frozen Fever)
- Making Today a Perfect Day
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1971-05-30
Discography
- Still I Can't Be Still1998
- Here2004
- Defying Gravity2007
- Brave2007
- Gorgeous2007
- Brave / Gorgeous2008
- I Stand2008
- I Stand: Acoustic EP2008
- Hope2008
- Idina Menzel2010
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- 1,411,710
- Total plays
- 17,392,895
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Idina Kim Menzel (pronounced /ɪˈdiːnə mɛnˈzɛl/; née Mentzel; born May 30, 1971) is an American actress, singer and songwriter. She is widely known for originating the roles of Maureen in Rent and Elphaba in Wicked, and for voicing the character Elsa in the Disney movie Frozen. Idina was born on Long Island, New York, to a Jewish family. Her mother, Helene, is a therapist, and her father, Stuart Mentzel, worked as a pajama salesman. She was raised in Syosset <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Id
Recent publications · Crossref
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- The RIN: an RNA integrity number for assigning integrity values to RNA measurements
· 2006 · cited 2,087x
- Shifting plant phenology in response to global change
· 2007 · cited 2,028x
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Encyclopedic overview
Idina Kim Menzel (/ɪˈdiːnə mɛnˈzɛl/ ih-DEE-nə men-ZEL; née Mentzel; born May 30, 1971) is an American actress, singer and songwriter. Regarded as the "Queen of Broadway", Menzel is known for her commanding stage presence, powerful mezzo-soprano voice, and reputation as one of the most influential stage actors of her generation. Having achieved mainstream success across stage, screen, and music, her accolades include a Tony Award and a Daytime Emmy Award.
Menzel rose to prominence as a stage actress in 1996, 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. In 2003, she originated the role of Elphaba in the musical Wicked on Broadway, for which she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical. After leaving the show in 2005, she reprised the role in the musical's original West End production in 2006, becoming the highest-paid actress in West End theatre history. In 2014, Menzel returned to Broadway in the musical If/Then, for which she received a third Tony Award nomination.
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