Charlotte d'Amboise

Charlotte d'Amboise is an American actress, dancer and singer who has spent most of her career in musical theater. Born in New York City to a ballet-dancing family, she trained and performed with the New York City Ballet as a child before making her Broadway debut in Cats in 1984. She was the first Chris Hargensen in the 1988 musical Carrie, and she has played Roxie Hart in Chicago many times, heading a national tour in 1997 and joining the Broadway revival in 1999. Her other Broadway work includes Contact in 2001, a standby turn in Sweet Charity, Cassie in the 2006 revival of A Chorus Line and Fastrada in the 2013 revival of Pippin. She earned Tony Award nominations for Jerome Robbins' Broadway and A Chorus Line. Her film credits include The Preacher's Wife (1996), the documentary Every Little Step (2008) and Frances Ha (2012).