Idina Menzel

format_quote We have this strength inside of us and yet we are taught to always sort of keep it down. If we're too big or too angry or too bold or too beautiful or too talented, it can scare people. It might scare other women, it might scare men, whatever it is. I sort of found in my life that I've taken a step back and made myself smaller in order to try to fit in. And that hasn't worked. And we have to learn to kind of embrace what makes us unique, and embrace our strength and then if people don't like it, fuck it.

stars  Her song, Walker Diggs, is her biggest inspiration.

stars  Recently received an honorary doctorate from C.W Post Campus of Long Island University in May '11.

stars  BFA in Drama - New York University, Tisch School of the Arts (1993)

stars  Won the 2004 Tony Award® Best Actress in a Musical for Elphaba in Wicked.

stars  Cracked a rib as a result of a fall through a trap door during a matinée show in "Wicked" on 8 January 2005, and could not perform the next day, what was to be hear last performance. Her standby Shoshana Bean covered for her, but Idina made a special out-of-costume appearance and did her final song to a standing ovation before being bid farewell at the curtain call (along with Joey McIntyre who was also leaving that day).