Joanna gleason chip zien biography
Joanna Gleason
BIO
Born Joanne Hall, daughter of Maurice and Marilyn (Plottel) Hall (Halprin) on June 2, in Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada. At the time her father worked at the Canadian Wheat Board. He later started his TV career and after becoming known as Monty Hall went on to fame as host of Let's Make a Deal. It is interesting to note that Monty's brother Robert also changed his name to Hall.
Joanna graduated from Beverly Hills High School in While there she had a cameo in the school's production of The Music Man.
She continued her education at UCLA, then Occidental College, from which she graduated. Joanna has been a teacher herself, holding classes and workshops all over the country. She has also begun crafting new theatrical works and in early she directed her first New York play.
Joanna was in the TV Show "Hello, Larry" which was used as the basic outline for the 90s TV smash hit "Fraiser." She was also a star on "Bette" with Bette Midler and Lindsay Lohan and had a good run on TV's "Love and War" where she got to direct a little as well. She is also known for her television roles in shows such as Friends, The West Wing, The Good Wife, Blue Bloods, The Affair, The Newsroom, and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
She has also won numerous awards. In Joanna won the Tony as Best Actress for her role as the Baker's Wife in Sondheim's "Into the Woods." She also won a Drama Desk Award and Outer Critics Circle Award for the same performance. She received another Tony nomination and a Drama Desk nomination for her work in "Joe Egg." Joanna won a Theater World Award for "The Real Thing," and another Drama Desk award for "Social Security."
Since Joanna has been married to actor Chris Sarandon. These two appeared together in movies such as Road Ends, Edie and Pen, Let the Devil Wear Black, and American Perfekt. They met while doing Broadway?s adoption of the Thin Man: "Nick a
Joanna Gleason is known in Into the Woods for playing in the Original Broadway Cast's, portraying the Baker's Wife.
Joanna Gleason Sarandon
Born
June 2, (Age 73) Toronto, Canada
Ethnicity
American-Canadian
Spouse
(m. ; div. )
(m. ; div. )
- Chris Sarandon (m. )
Family
Aaron David Gleason
Family Name
Originally Hall, Daughter of Monty Hall, a well known Canadian TV host
Education
UCLA & Occidental College
Occupation
Actress, singer
Years Active
–present
Sondheim Roles
- Into the Woods 10th Anniversary Concert
- Anyone Can Whistle, Concert at Carnegie Hall as the Narrator
Other Notable Roles
- Mike Nichols' Heartburn (),
- Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters ()
- Crimes and Misdemeanors ()
- Nick & Nora ()
- Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights ()
Awards
- Theatre World Award for I Love My Wife
- Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play for both It's Only A Play + Social Security
- Tony Award, Best Actress in a Musical for Into the Woods
- Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical for Into the Woods
- Outer Critics Circle Awards, Outstanding Actress in a Musical for Into the Woods
Nominations
- Tony Award, Best Featured Actress in a Play for A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
- Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play for A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
- Tony Award, Best Featured Actress in a Musical
- Outer Critics Circle Awards, Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical
- Outer Critics Circle Awards, Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play
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Photoshoots[]
Official ITW Commercial Photoshoot with Chip Zien as the Baker.
With Bernadette Peters and Chip Zien for an interview.
In rehearsal with Stephen Sondheim and Chip Zien.
During Act II, with Chip Zien and Bernadette Peters.
Biography
Jerome Herbert "Chip" Zien (born March 20, ) is an American actor. He is best known for playing the lead role of the Baker in the original Broadway production of Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim. He has appeared in all of the "Marvin Trilogy" musicals by William Finn: In Trousers, March of the Falsettos, Falsettoland and Falsettos. He played Monsieur Thénardier in the Broadway production of Les Misérables and Mark Rothenberg in the film United He is also known for providing the voice of the titular character in the film Howard the Duck.
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Harmony's Chip Zien on 50 Years of a Broadway Career & the Four Great Roles That Have Defined It
Nearly 50 years into a Broadway career, Milwaukee native Chip Zien (born “Jerome Herbert Zien”) took the pandemic as a moment to start stepping back from the stage. So he tells Editor-in-Chief Paul Wontorek from the living room of his Upper West Side apartment for a special career retrospective on The Broadway Show. “And then,” Zien says, “I got a call from my agent that Barry Manilow has a show.”
That show—as Zien and every pedestrian who passes the Barrymore Theatre on 47th Street now know— was Harmony. A collaboration between Manilow, his longtime partner Bruce Sussman and director Warren Carlyle, Harmony unearths the story of the once-famous German sextet, The Comedian Harmonists, who were scrubbed from history by the Nazis. The part presented to Zien was Rabbi, a (nearly) present-day version of the last surviving Harmonist who serves as both a narrator and wayfaring performer of the show’s miscellaneous characters (Richard Strauss and Albert Einstein among them).
By the time Harmony landed on Zien’s doorstep, the itinerant musical had been knocking around for over two decades—but the idea of an older Rabbi anchoring Harmony as a memory play was a brand-new concept. Zien was immediately smitten: “It's funny— but it's serious and it's difficult,” he says about the taxing role that initially left him worried about his own stamina. But the most astonishing element of this proposition, he recalls, was the messenger: “Barry Manilow couldn't possibly know me,” Zien remembers saying to his agent. “But it turned out that he did.”
“Chip Zien” may not be a household name of Hollywood stature, but for those with Broadway know-how, his career is one of the most iconic in the business. Zien recounts how the actor Tony Randall