Anna Kendrick was born in Portland, Maine in 1985. She first appeared on Broadway when she was 12, earning a Tony nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the 1998 Broadway musical High Society.
The musical is based on Philip Barry's 1939 stage comedy The Philadelphia Story and the subsequent 1956 musical film adaptation, High Society, which features [Cole] Porter's songs.
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If you’re familiar with The Philadelphia Story, you’ll recognize this scene: The sisters (who have concocted this act just for them) meet the journalists for the first time.
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Also in 1998, she was in the Carnegie Hall concert “My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies” with the Kit Kat Girls from that year’s revival of Cabaret as her backup singers for “Life Upon the Wicked Stage” from Show Boat.
I’m so humble it’s crazy. I’m like the Kanye West of humility.
— Anna Kendrick
She played Cinderella in the 2014 movie of Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods. Here she’s singing “On the Steps of the Palace.”
It’s cute how I used to think this ‘barely holding it together’ feeling was temporary.
— Anna Kendrick
She performed at the 2013 Kennedy Center Honors. Glamour magazine:
It doesn't get much better than the Obamas applauding while Anna Kendrick performs "It's Not Where You Start, It's Where You Finish"—a mainstay of Shirley MacLaine's stage show in the 1970s—in honor of MacLaine, who bops and mouths the words along as Kendrick sings.
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Of course, Anna Kendrick is best-known for her work on TV and in film. In her review of the 2014 film The Last Five Years, an adaptation of the Broadway musical, Stephanie Murray wrote,
Watching [Kendrick] here, you might think there’s nothing she can’t do. She’s equally adept at telegraphing humor and heartbreak, and her ability to cry on command makes beginning the story at its end work.
We don’t even know who this person is and already we want her to be okay.
She was in rep during “A Summer in Ohio”:
If I die unexpectedly can everyone just do the right thing and pretend I was a way better person than I am?
— Anna Kendrick
Among her many credits is her starring role in the Pitch Perfect film series (2012-2017). During her interview with David Letterman, she sang the Cup song (“When I’m Gone”) from the first Pitch Perfect.
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