Katharine McPhee

Katharine McPhee is an American actress and singer who took second place on American Idol's fifth season in 2006, a run that came after a Los Angeles Stage Ovation Award nomination for playing Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun. Her self-titled debut album came out in 2007 and reached number two on the Billboard 200, and later records include Unbroken and the jazz standards collection I Fall in Love Too Easily. On screen she played Karen Cartwright in the series Smash and Paige Dineen in Scorpion, while her screen credits include The House Bunny (2008), Shark Night 3D (2011) and the television movie In My Dreams (2014). Waitress gave her a Broadway debut in 2018 as Jenna, a part she also played in London's West End in 2019 before rejoining the Broadway production through early 2020. She also played Bailey in Country Comfort.