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Montego Glover
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Glover in 2012
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| Born | February 9, 1974 Macon, Georgia, USA
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| Occupation | Actress, singer |
Montego Glover (born February 9, 1974) is an American stage actress and singer. She has been nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her role in the musical Memphis and won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical.
On 1 September 2015, Glover starting playing Fantine in the second Broadway revival of Les Misérables, she left the production on 3 February 2016.
From 9 September 2017 to 31 March 31 2019, Glover portrayed Angelica Schuyler in the Chicago cast of the Broadway blockbuster Hamilton.
On 6 September 6 2022, she started sharing the role of the Witch with Patina Miller in the 2022 Broadway revival of Into the Woods. She left the production on 15 December 2022 being replaced by Joaquina Kalukango. She reprised her role in the 2023 national tour.
Life and career
Glover was born in Macon, Georgia and raised in Chattanooga, Tennessee. She attended the Chattanooga School for the Arts & Sciences and then attended Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Music Theatre with Honors. Glover sang in church choirs "for as long as I can remember".
She has performed on Broadway in the musical Memphis as Felicia. Glover received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical for her performance. Additionally, she won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical (in a tie with Catherine Zeta-Jones). She displays a "rich, rangy and emotionally powerful voice in several standout numbers" according to Playbill. Montego has been with Memphis since it started, including four regional productions and appears in the live filming of the musical, Memphis: Direct from Broadway.
Her Broadway debut was as an understudy for Celie and Nettie in the musical The Color Purple.
In other work, she has been a "Star Wars videogame avatar and a TV commercial voice-over artist." She worked at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida in the late 1990s. Her voice is featured on the Festival of the Lion King official soundtrack.
She also guest starred on the USA Network show, White Collar in the episode "Judgement Day".
Work
- Dreamgirls - Special Benefit Concert, September 24, 2001*
- Aida - Music Theatre of Wichita, August 2005
- The Color Purple - Broadway, Understudy and Replacement, March 2007
- Memphis - Broadway, "Felicia", October 19, 2009
- Memphis: Direct from Broadway - Film, April 28, 2011
- Made in Jersey - TV Show, Aired December 1, 2012
- It Shoulda Been You - Broadway, 2015
- Les Misérables - Fantine - Broadway, 2015
- Hamilton - Angelica Schuyler - Chicago, September 7, 2017 - March 31, 2019
- Into the Woods - The Witch - Broadway, 2022 - Tour, 2023
