Brooke Elliott

Brooke Elliott

Brooke Elliott (born Gregorian calendar month sixteen, 1974) is a Yankee actor and singer. She has appeared in musical theatre, together with the U.S.A. tours of Beauty and also the Beast and Wicked, and also the Broadway productions of Taboo and also the Pirate Queen. She is best better-known for her role as Jane Bingum on the lifespan series pass opera star.

Brooke Elliott in 2013
Born November sixteen, 1974 (age 44)
Fridley, Minnesota, U.S.
Nationality Yankee
Alma mater Western Michigan University
Occupation thespian
Years active 2000–present

Known for croak prima donna

Early life
Elliott was born in Fridley, Minnesota, to Robert, a mayor, and Kathleen Elliott, on November sixteen, 1974.[1] Elliott has one sister, Jamie Alexander, and one brother, Adam Elliott.[2] Her folks have aforesaid that she began to sing once she was 3 years recent, and photographs exist of her at that age singing You illumine My Life.[3][4] Her family affected on many occasions, initial to Blaine, Minnesota, and so out of state to Missouri, Oklahoma, and Illinois.[5] The family settled in Riverview, Michigan, once Elliott was a junior in high school. She graduated from Gabriel Richard Catholic high school in 1993; she appeared in high school productions whereas there, together with within King of England and Joseph and also the superb method Dreamcoat. Elliott went on to Western Michigan University and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre Performance in 1998.[3][6]


Elliott worked as a temporary worker and a waiter, together with functioning at a 1950s-themed eating place wherever she had to bounce on the tables each hour.[7]

Career

For 10 weeks in 1999, she was a member of Chicago-based stage combat theatre company Babes With Blades.[8] As a part of that role, she performed a scene from Robin Hood: aristocrat of Thieves, The mortal and Heathers.[9] She left for her initial skilled theatre role because of the dish within the North American country road version of Beauty and therefore the Beast.[7][10] She additionally appeared as a part of the solid within the North yank tour of Wicked aboard Adam Lambert, whom she later supported once he appeared on yank Idol.[9][11]

She credits Rosie O'Donnell with obtaining her initial Great White Way role aboard Boy martyr in Taboo.[12] Rosie later delineates her as "fresh off a Walt Disney Cruise", however, allowed her to come back for a second try. Elliott spent $117 to vary her outfit and make-up so as to be higher suited to the role; O'Donnell reimbursed Elliott once she was awarded an area within the show.[13] The show closed once solely 100 performances, however, O'Donnell afterward praised Elliott's passion for the show.[14] Elliott went on to play Majella within the Pirate Queen, which opened in Chicago in 2006 and moved to Great White Way in 2007.[15]

Her initial film role was within the actor film What ladies need in 2000.[1] Her initial tv role was in associate degree episode of Law & Order: Trial by Jury.[16] In 2009, Elliott was solid as the main character Jane Bingum on Lifetime's die operatic star.[12] Producer Craig Zadan aforementioned of Elliott's casting, "We had to search out someone who's an exquisite actress, United Nations agency will do the comedy and drama, and with Rupert Brooke, she nailed it".[17] once the pilot, The big apple Times delineate Elliott as "convincing, and even poignant, at each turn",[18] and therefore the l. a. Times aforementioned she was "a stage actor with fabulous comic temporal order and large dramatic flexibility".[13] Elliott additionally sings on the sound recording of the series.[19] The show complete once its sixth season in 2014.[20]

In 2016, Elliott marked opposite Katey Sagal within the CBS comedy pilot higher Middle Bogen impressed by the Australian series.[21] it had been not ordered to series. In 2018, she visited star within the first principle comedy pilot created by police officer archer a few dysfunctional families battling psychopathy.[22][23]

In 2019, Elliot was solid in a very leading role in the Netflix drama series Sweet Magnolias.[24]

Personal life

Elliott has mentioned the perception of plus-size actresses on tv,[12] and describes her body-build as traditional sized, stating "The majority of girls in America seem like Maine. It's one in all the items i like concerning the show."[25]