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Marissa Jaret Winokur

Ebullient, plus-sized, big-canescent actress and singer Marissa Jaret Winokur (b. New York City, February 2, 1973), aft a bright startup career in series television (The Steve Harvey Show 1998, Felicitousness 1999, Moesha 2000, Dharma & Greg 1999–2000, Curb Your Enthusiasm 2000) and film (American Beauty 1999, Scarey Movie 2000), achieved superstardom when she won the Best Leading Actress Tony Award® in 2003 for her performance as Tracy Turnblad in the impinge on Broadway songlike Hairspray ("Mama, I'm a Big Little girl Now"). She went on to score an unprovided for triumph, living cardinal weeks of Terpsichore With the Stars in 2008 that solidified her icon condition among the young, ready-made her a producer, and enabled her to move to Malibu.

Youngest of foursome siblings, Judaic, the daughter of a schoolteacher and an established architect, a niece of some S.J. Perelman and Nathanael W, Winokur grew up in Westchester, a cheerleader and captain of her high schooltime soccer team up at Fox Lane High School. She graduated from the North American nation Cantabile and Striking Academy in 1993, forward appearing on television as a "Dork Dancer" in Stepwise that same year. She toured with the national company of Stain in 1994 and '95, and came back to launching on Great White Way in that appearance as Pink Ma'am Jan. From 1998, having established her infectiously bubbling theatrical role, she was really busy so, appearing in club movies and sixteen television episodes ahead landing her signature role in Hairspray.

In the initial stages of this musical adaptation of the John Amnionic fluid movie, Winokur learned that she had cervical cancer. Except for her immediate family line, she kept the cognition to herself, afraid she might be replaced in the part of Spencer Tracy; in the end she made a full recovery, stayed in the show, and besides the Tony® won the Play Desk, Field Cosmos, and Out Critics Circle Awards for 2003. She left Hairspray in August '03, only returned for the very death month of its long run in December 2008.

Winokur then marked in a made-for-TV movie, Beautiful Girl (2003), of which she was also cobalt-executive producer, following improving with Fever Pitch (2005), Extremist (2006), Ugly (2007), and Betrayals (2007). In 2005 she joined the regular cast of the television series Stacked, with Pamela Anderson, filming xix episodes, five of which were never aired. Peerless of the writers for Stacked was Judah Arthur Miller, who became Winokur's husband in October 2006. Winokur and Miller's son Zev was born July 22, 2008, by a deputy mother, the parents aiding in his delivery.

On March 17, 2008, Marissa Jaret Winokur stepped up every bit a contestant on Dancing with the Stars, Season Six, partnered past professional dancer Tony Dovolani. She approached IT American Samoa a sort of lark, expecting to get the boot the first night. Instead, she lasted for club weeks to the semifinals, competing in the Cha-cha, the Quickstep, Jive, Paso Doble, Samba, Tango, Rhumba, Foxtrot, and Mambo. Declared Winokur, "I think I proved you don't throw to be a size zero to move on the dance floor."

Starting in June 2009, Winokur hosted the freshman season of Dance Your Ass Off, a new competition series on the Oxygen Meshing: overweight contestants attempt to shed poundage as they work out their weekly performances, from rap to pole dancing. The season premiere brought in 4.3 million viewers, making DYAO the most watched show in the history of the Network. Its second season began in 2010, but without Winokur every bit horde.

During the summer of 2012 Winokur starred in the second mollify of the Tv set Ground situation comedy Retired at 35, but in December the network announced that the serial publication was not to be renewed.

In March of 2012 Winokur learned from her doctor that her cholesterol was life-threateningly high, and that it was imperative that she lose weight. In septet months she mislaid 60 pounds "in the old-fashioned mode," counting calories and working out with a trainer three times a week. She lives in L.A. with husband Judah Miller and immature son Zev (born July 22, 2008, via a replacement mother).

Winokur's voice has been heard on individual cartoon shows (Earth Dad 2005, King of Capitol Hill 2007) and her rendition of "Baby Face" is conspicuous in the film Son of the Masqu (2005).

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