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  Kristi Dawn Chennoweth is born in Broken, Arrow Oklahoma (she later chnaged her name to Kristin because the name Kristi did not sounde very operatic)
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  Kristin Attended Oklahoma State University to earn her BFA in Musical Theatre Performance, and Masters Degree in Opera
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  Kristin won the Miss OCU pagennt, and was a second runner-up to Miss Oklahoma
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  Kristen accepts her first off-broaday role in Animal Crackers
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  Kristin lands her first broadway show, Steel Pier as Precious McGuire
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  Kristin lands the role of Sally Brown in the Broadway production of You're a Good Man Charlie Brown, and earned her first Tony award for this role
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  Kristin releases her first CD entitled, Let Yourself Go
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  Kristin stared in a short lived, semi-biographical NBC sitcom called Kristin.
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  Kristin lands the role of Glinda in the Broadway production of Wicked, catipulting her stardom. However, she lost the Tony Award to her co-star Idina Menzel
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  Kristin began playing Annabeth Schott in The West Wing through 2006.
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  Kristin relases her second album
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  Kristin guest stars on the hit show Glee, playing April Rhodes from 2009-11
