Biography
Sutton Foster is an American actress who has been in Broadway plays such as Thoroughly Modern Millie and Anything Goes. She has won two Tony Awards for Best Actress in a Musical and has been nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award. Foster has also acted in television shows such as Bunheads and Younger, and she received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical.
Age
She is 49 years old as of 18 March 2024. She was born in 1975 in Statesboro, Georgia, United States. Her real name is Sutton Lenore Foster.
Education – Family
She left Troy High School before graduating (she earned her diploma through online courses) to join Tommy Tune’s national tour of The Will Rogers Follies. She then attended Carnegie Mellon University for a year before leaving to pursue a full-time career in theater. In May 2012, she earned an honorary doctorate from Ball State University, “in recognition of her outstanding career in theater, television, and music and for her contributions to the educational experience and professional growth of Ball State students.” In May 2019, she was also awarded an honorary doctorate by the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, which also established a merit prize in her name to be awarded to one student every four years. Her older brother, Hunter Foster, is also an actress.
Husband
Foster met actor Christian Borle in college, and they married on September 18, 2006. Despite their divorce in 2009, Foster and Borle remain friends and continue to support one another’s work. On September 19, 2013, Foster revealed that she was engaged to screenwriter Ted Griffin. She and Griffin got married on October 25, 2014. Foster and her husband revealed in April 2017 that they had adopted a baby girl born on March 5, 2017.
Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $4 million.
Height
She stand at a height of 5 feet 9 inches (1.75 m).
Ridley Jones
She voiced as Sarah Jones, Sylvia’s daughter and Ridley’s mother in the an animated preschool television series Ridley Jones. The series takes place in a universe similar to Night at the Museum, with important aspects shared between the two.
The series takes set in a museum, where the exhibits and displays are brought to life by magic. The Jones family, who live in a treehouse in the heart of the building, have been guardians of the museum’s secrets for generations, and Ridley is the most recent candidate for the post, having only lately discovered that the displays are coming to life.As she progresses in her role, she collects a team of other museum display models to help contain the turmoil and care for those in need, all while ensuring that everyone is safe and happy – and that the outside world is unaware of the museum’s secrets.
Younger
She appeared as Liza Miller, a 40-year-old divorced mother in the American comedy-drama television series Younger. The novel is set in New York City and follows Liza Miller’s personal and professional life; she is in her 40s, alone and alone after a painful divorce from her gambling-addicted husband and learns that her only daughter has decided to live in India full time. After a run-in with a 26-year-old tattoo artist named Josh, who believes Liza and he are the same age, she devises a scheme to pass herself off as a 20-something in order to re-enter the ageist world of publishing. She becomes the assistant to Empirical Press Marketing Chief Diana Trout, while also befriending her coworker Kelsey Peters. However, she must strike a balance between her old and new lives, since they occasionally intersect.
Bunheads
She portrayed Michelle Simms Flowers, a Las Vegas chorus girl who reluctantly marries benevolent Hubbell Flowers to escape her life, in the American comedy-drama television series Bunheads. However, she soon finds that he is a decent guy and begins to appreciate her new life until his death.
Bunheads tells the story of Michelle Simms, a former ‘bunhead’ who ended up as a Las Vegas showgirl. Seeing her life and work as a dead end, she accepts her persistent admirer Hubbell Flowers’ marriage proposal and relocates to his tranquil seaside town, the fictional Paradise, California, halfway between Ojai and Oxnard. Hubbell is killed in a car accident shortly after arriving, and Michelle tries to adjust to life in a tiny town while also teaching ballet at her mother-in-law’s school, Paradise Dance Academy.
Movies
♦ 2021 – Anything Goes
♦ 2016 – Mired
♦ 2015 – Gravy
♦ 2014 – The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
♦ 2014 – The Nobodies
♦ 2013 – Shrek The Musical
♦ 2008 – Just in Case
♦ 1989 – Mr. Terbillion’s Ambition
TV Shows
♦ 2023 – The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
♦ 2021–2023 – Ridley Jones
♦ 2020 – A Million Little Things
♦ 2020 – What Would You Do?
♦ 2020 – Vampirina
♦ 2019 – Into the Dark
♦ 2018 – Instinct
♦ 2016 – Mad Dogs
♦ 2016 – The Good Wife
♦ 2016 – Match Game
♦ 2016 – Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life
♦ 2015–21 – Younger
♦ 2015 – Elementary
♦ 2014 – Psych
♦ 2014 – Say Yes to the Dress