Sutton Foster is a Broadway actress and popular television star.
Sutton Foster is a multi-award winning American theatre, television actress, singer and dancer known for her explosive Broadway musical solos as well in TV shows. With stage & screen credits as well as recording under her belt, Foster has made herself one of the more versatile performers of her generation and certainly one of the more adored. Almost everyone knows her from her breakout role in Thoroughly Modern Millie and well-deserved acclaim with the rest of America on Younger; Foster’s career as proof positive of talent, charm, and effort put into practice.
Early Life and Start of Career
Birth and Upbringing Sutton Foster
Sutton Lenore Foster (born March 18, 1975 in Statesboro, Georgia), is from Detroit, Michigan. The youngest of three children, her parents were also artists, who helped nurture her performing instinct from an early age. Foster took dance classes and performed in community theater productions as a child, where she began refining her craft.
Education
Foster was in the Troy High School theater program in Michigan. She spent her last two years of high school living in New York City to attend Carnegie Mellon University, studying drama and musical theater. Foster says her time at Carnegie Mellon was transformative and she graduated prepared to become a working theater actor.
STAGE to SCREEN: Thoroughly Modern Millie [2002]
Foster finally got her break in 2002 when she starred in the lead role of a Broadway musical adaptation of the 1967 film “Thoroughly Modern Millie.” Foster starred as Millie Dillmount, a Kansas girl who moves to New York looking for a new life — and love. A hit show with audiences and critics, the production demonstrated Foster’s vocal prowess, sharp comic timing and a flirty playfulness that added to the presence of Sofia in 2017.
