Jennifer Simard

Jennifer Simard is an American actress and singer known mainly for musical theater. She grew up in Litchfield, New Hampshire, trained at the Boston Conservatory of Music and Hunter College, then settled in New York and joined Forbidden Broadway '93. A three-time Tony Award nominee, she made her Broadway debut in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and later sang in Shrek The Musical (2013) and Sister Act. Her Off-Broadway roles earned Drama Desk Award nominations, and in 2016 she played Sister Mary Downey in Disaster!, which brought a Tony nomination. From 2020 to 2022 she was Sarah in the Broadway revival of Company, earning a second Tony nod, and she later played the lead role of Helen Sharp in Death Becomes Her, which earned a third. Her screen work includes The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000), Somewhere in Queens (2022), Law & Order and Younger.