Biographie

Won Broadway's 2001 Tony Award as Best Actress (Featured Role - Musical) for "The Producers", the new Mel Brooks musical. She had been nominated in the same category ten years earlier, in 1991, for "The Will Rogers Follies".

Skipped the sixth grade.

Nominated for an Outer Critics' Circle Award for her performance in the Broadway Play, "The Nance", written by Douglas Carter Beane, starring Nathan Lane, Directed by Jack O'Brien. Production won 3 Tony Awards for John Lee Beatty's sets, Ann Roth's Costumes and sound design by Leon Rothenberg.

Graduated from San Marcos High School, Santa Barbara, California in 1982.

Younger sister of Linus Huffman.