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Karen Ziemba is a Actor American born on 12 november 1957 at St. Joseph (USA)
Karen Ziemba (born November 12, 1957) is an American actress, singer and dancer, best known for her work in musical theatre. In 2000, she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance in Contact.
Her Broadway debut was in A Chorus Line as Diana Morales. Later, she played the lead of Peggy Sawyer in 42nd Street. While appearing in 42nd Street, she was featured in the October 1984 issue of Playboy in the article "Babes of Broadway", in which she posed partially nude.
Ziemba appeared Off-Broadway in the Kander and Ebb revue And The World Goes 'Round (1991)and won the Drama Desk Award. She received a Drama Desk nomination (Best Actress in a Musical) for I Do! I Do! (1996). The next year, she was nominated for another Drama Desk Award (Outstanding Actress in a Musical)and a Tony Award (Actress in a Musical) for her role in Steel Pier. In 2000, Ziemba won the Tony for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance in Susan Stroman's Contact. in 2004 she received another Tony nomination (Best Featured Actress in a Musical) for Never Gonna Dance. In 2007, she portrayed the heartwarming lyricist Georgia Hendricks in Curtains, earning her fourth Tony award nomination.
Ziemba's other Broadway roles include Polly Baker in Crazy for You,Roxie Hart in Chicago (1998),
and Belle Hagner in Teddy & Alice (1987). In addition, she has performed with the New York City Opera in 110 in the Shade (1992) and The Most Happy Fella.
She has appeared in several New York City Center Encores! staged musicals, including The Pajama Game in 2002 (Babe Williams), Bye Bye Birdie in 2004and On Your Toes in 2013 (Lil Dolan).
She also starred in the staged reading of Vincent Crapelli's Otherwise, with Beth Leavel and Laura Bonarrigo-Koffman.
Ziemba appeared as "Dolly Gallagher Levi" in Hello, Dolly! at the Drury Lane Theatre, Oak Brook, Illinois, in 2013.
She returned to Broadway in March 2014, in the new musical adaptation of Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway as the character "Eden Brent", directed by Susan Stroman.
On television she has appeared on Law & Order and on film in The Producers (2005) and the ill-fated, never released remake of the classic The Devil and Daniel Webster.
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Ziemba was born in St. Joseph, Michigan, and went on to attend the University of Akron (in Ohio), where she studied dance. In 1977 she danced with the Ohio Ballet.Her Broadway debut was in A Chorus Line as Diana Morales. Later, she played the lead of Peggy Sawyer in 42nd Street. While appearing in 42nd Street, she was featured in the October 1984 issue of Playboy in the article "Babes of Broadway", in which she posed partially nude.
Ziemba appeared Off-Broadway in the Kander and Ebb revue And The World Goes 'Round (1991)and won the Drama Desk Award. She received a Drama Desk nomination (Best Actress in a Musical) for I Do! I Do! (1996). The next year, she was nominated for another Drama Desk Award (Outstanding Actress in a Musical)and a Tony Award (Actress in a Musical) for her role in Steel Pier. In 2000, Ziemba won the Tony for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance in Susan Stroman's Contact. in 2004 she received another Tony nomination (Best Featured Actress in a Musical) for Never Gonna Dance. In 2007, she portrayed the heartwarming lyricist Georgia Hendricks in Curtains, earning her fourth Tony award nomination.
Ziemba's other Broadway roles include Polly Baker in Crazy for You,Roxie Hart in Chicago (1998),
and Belle Hagner in Teddy & Alice (1987). In addition, she has performed with the New York City Opera in 110 in the Shade (1992) and The Most Happy Fella.
She has appeared in several New York City Center Encores! staged musicals, including The Pajama Game in 2002 (Babe Williams), Bye Bye Birdie in 2004and On Your Toes in 2013 (Lil Dolan).
She also starred in the staged reading of Vincent Crapelli's Otherwise, with Beth Leavel and Laura Bonarrigo-Koffman.
Ziemba appeared as "Dolly Gallagher Levi" in Hello, Dolly! at the Drury Lane Theatre, Oak Brook, Illinois, in 2013.
She returned to Broadway in March 2014, in the new musical adaptation of Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway as the character "Eden Brent", directed by Susan Stroman.
On television she has appeared on Law & Order and on film in The Producers (2005) and the ill-fated, never released remake of the classic The Devil and Daniel Webster.
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The Producers (2005)
, 2h14Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about sexuality, Théâtre, LGBT-related films, Musical films, Political films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Uma Thurman, Will Ferrell, Gary Beach, Roger Bart
Rating62%
Following the flop of theatre musical "Funny Boy" (based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet) ("Opening Night"), the show's washed-up producer, Max Bialystock, hires the neurotic Leo Bloom as his accountant. While studying Max's books, Leo notes that, since a flop is expected to lose money, the IRS won't investigate the finances of failed productions. Leo then jests that, by selling an excess of shares and embezzling the funds, a flop could generate up to $2 million. Deciding to enact the plan, Max asks for Leo's help with the scheme, only for the latter to refuse ("We Can Do It").
, 1h51Genres Musical theatre, Documentary, Historical, Musical
Themes Documentary films about cities
Actors Edie Adams, Beatrice Arthur, Alec Baldwin, Kaye Ballard, Bryan Batt, Betsy Blair
Roles Herself
Rating82%
Shortcut to Happiness (2003)
, 1h45Directed by Alec Baldwin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Films about writers, Films about religion, Demons in film
Actors Anthony Hopkins, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Alec Baldwin, Dan Aykroyd, Kim Cattrall, Amy Poehler
Roles Mrs. Miller
Rating54%
Jabez Stone (Alec Baldwin) is a desperate, down on his luck writer who reaches rock bottom when his close friend, Julius Jensen (Dan Aykroyd), finds success. In his attempts to get his work published, he meets a beautiful stranger (Jennifer Love Hewitt) who offers him a chance at fame and fortune in exchange for his soul. Stone, having lost faith in himself, agrees to the offer.