Sutton Foster in Detroit

Sutton Foster is an American actor, singer and dancer, born in 1975 in Statesboro, Georgia, and raised in Michigan. She is best known for her Broadway performances in Thoroughly Modern Millie and Anything Goes, both of which earned her Tony Awards for Best Actress in a Musical. Her screen work includes Bunheads and Younger, while albums such as Wish and Take Me to the World draw on show tunes and American standards. In 2002, she originated the title role in Thoroughly Modern Millie at the Marquis Theatre. She led the 2011 Broadway revival of Anything Goes at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre, and her cabaret work was documented on An Evening with Sutton Foster: Live at the Café Carlyle. She returned to Broadway in 2022 as Marian Paroo in The Music Man at the Winter Garden Theatre, opposite Hugh Jackman.