Judy Kuhn

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
May 20, 1958 (67 years old)

Judy Kuhn

Known For

Broadway’s Leading Ladies
Movie 2025

Broadway’s Leading Ladies

Broadway’s Leading Ladies is a celebration of the profound influence and enduring legacy women have made in theater. Will be broadcasted on PBS.

Fun Home: 10th Anniversary Reunion Concert
Movie 2024

Fun Home: 10th Anniversary Reunion Concert

Ten years ago, Fun Home entered our lives with its world premiere at The Public Theater and began its journey of touching and inspiring the lives of millions. After a critically acclaimed and sold-out run at The Public, Fun Home transferred to Broadway winning five Tony Awards including Best Musical, before going onto productions worldwide. Join Jeanine Tesori, Lisa Kron, Chris Fenwick, and Sam Gold as they reunite with original company members as well as some new faces to present a special concert of the Tony Award-winning production with proceeds benefiting the nonprofit organization, Outright International.

Once Upon a Studio
0h 9m
Movie 2023

Once Upon a Studio

Created for Disney's 100th anniversary, the short features Mickey Mouse corralling a gallery of legendary Disney characters for a group photo.

tick, tick... BOOM!
1h 55m
Movie 2021

tick, tick... BOOM!

On the brink of turning 30, a promising theater composer navigates love, friendship and the pressure to create something great before time runs out.

Eleanor of Illinois
0h 6m
Movie 2019

Eleanor of Illinois

Chicago's most powerful Jewish doyenne channels Katharine Hepburn to punish her adult child's insolence and win back their loyalty.

Enchanted
1h 47m
Movie 2007

Enchanted

The beautiful princess Giselle is banished by an evil queen from her magical, musical animated land and finds herself in the gritty reality of the streets of modern-day Manhattan. Shocked by this strange new environment that doesn't operate on a "happily ever after" basis, Giselle is now adrift in a chaotic world badly in need of enchantment. But when Giselle begins to fall in love with a charmingly flawed divorce lawyer who has come to her aid - even though she is already promised to a perfect fairy tale prince back home - she has to wonder: Can a storybook view of romance survive in the real world?

What's Your Sign?
Movie 1997

What's Your Sign?

Two commuters -- likable salesman Joey (Jack Gindi) and working girl Linda (Judy Kuhn) -- dream of finding the perfect love but get stuck on a merry-go-round of hellish blind dates after taking advice from their best friends (Ian Kahn and Susie Essman). Gindi also takes on the writer and director roles in this jaded view of Cupid's aim as Joey's and Linda's romantic woes really begin once they meet. Artie Lange plays Joey's roving-handed co-worker.

Pocahontas
1h 21m
Movie 1995

Pocahontas

Pocahontas, daughter of a Native American tribe chief, falls in love with an English soldier as colonists invade 17th century Virginia.

Chess in Concert
1h 57m
Movie 1989

Chess in Concert

The story of a romantic triangle between two top players, an American and a Russian, in a world chess championship, and a woman who manages one and falls in love with the other, all in the context of the Cold War struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union. Concert production of the musical staged during the finals of the 1989 chess World Cup tournament in in Skellefteå, Sweden and broadcast on Swedish television.

Biography

Judy Kuhn (born May 20, 1958) is an American actress and singer, known for her work in musical theatre. A four-time Tony Award nominee, she has released four studio albums and sang the title role in the 1995 film Pocahontas, including her rendition of the song "Colors of the Wind", which won its composers the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Kuhn made her professional stage debut in 1981 and her Broadway debut in the 1985 original production of the musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Subsequent Broadway roles include Cosette in Les Misérables (1987), Florence Vassy in Chess (1988), and Amalia Balash in She Loves Me (1993). For all three, she received Tony Award nominations. She also received an Olivier Award nomination for her 1989 West End debut playing Maria/Futura in Metropolis. Other musical roles include Betty Schaeffer in the 1993 US premiere production of Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles and her Obie Award winning role as Emmie in the 2001 Off-Broadway production of Eli's Comin. She received a fourth Tony nomination in 2015 for her role as Helen Bechdel in the original Broadway production of Fun Home, and a second Olivier nomination in 2020 for her role as Golde in a London revival of Fiddler on the Roof.

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