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Acting · Great Neck, New York, USA
Nicole Blonsky (born November 9, 1988) is an American actress and singer. She is known for playing Tracy Turnblad in the film Hairspray (2007), for which she won two Critics' Choice Awards and nominations for a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Blonsky has starred as Willamena Rader in the ABC Family series Huge (2010), for which she received a Teen Choice Award nomination, had…
Known for
- Bosco — Tammy2024
- Every Breath She Takes — Maria Bonilla2023
- Oblivious — The Voice2023
- Ghost in the Graveyard — Mrs. E2019
- The Last Movie Star — Faith Cole2018
- Pup Star: World Tour — Lady Paw Paw (voice)2018
- Pup Star: Better 2Gether — Lady Paw Paw (voice)2017
- Pup Star — Lady Paw Paw (voice)2016
- Geography Club — Therese2013
- The English Teacher — Sheila Nussbaum2013
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Country
- United States
- Active from
- 1988
Discography
- Burnin'2025
- Kinda Okay2025
- Kiss Me in Slow Motion2025
- Old Phone2025
- What a Man Gotta Do2025
- Whisper My Name2025
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- Listeners
- 262,516
- Total plays
- 2,233,235
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Nicole Margaret Blonsky (born November 9, 1988) is an American actress and singer. She portrays Tracy Turnblad, the lead character, in the big-screen remake and adaptation of the musical Hairspray, released on July 20, 2007. She is known professionally as Nikki Blonsky. Blonsky hails from Great Neck, New York. She graduated from Great Neck Village School in June, 2006. She has done local theatre at both levels (youth center) and Great Neck South High School, and beat out thousands of hopefuls f
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Key facts
- Born
- Nicole Blonsky , ( 1988-11-09 ) November 9, 1988 (age 37) , Great Neck, New York , U.S.
- Occupations
- Actress singer
- Years active
- 2007–present
- Spouse
- Hailey Jo Jenson ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2023 )
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Encyclopedic overview
Nicole Blonsky (born November 9, 1988) is an American actress and singer. She is known for playing Tracy Turnblad in the film Hairspray (2007), for which she won two Critics' Choice Awards and nominations for a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Blonsky has starred as Willamena Rader in the ABC Family series Huge (2010), for which she received a Teen Choice Award nomination, had a recurring role as Margot on the series Smash (2013), and had roles in the films Geography Club (2013) as Therese and The Last Movie Star (2017) as Faith.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nikki Blonsky” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.