Sutton Lenore Foster (born March 18, 1975) is an American actress, singer and dancer.She is known for her work on the Broadway stage, for which she has received two Tony Awards for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical, in 2002 for her role as Millie Dillmount in Thoroughly Modern Millie, and in 2011 for her performance as Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes.Upon leaving, Foster did a concert version of Snoopy!The Musical and returned to the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera for a production of Me and My Girl to wrap up the year.
Foster participated in a reading of a work-in-progress new musical, Bonnie and Clyde: A Folktale, in June 2009.She won the Gracie Award and received a nomination at the 3rd Critics' Choice Television Awards for Best Actress in a Comedy Series.This was part of a new tour effort An Evening With Sutton Foster: Broadway In Concert, which continued through 2016. in July 2015 to play Queenie in Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party.In May 2005, Foster co-starred as Jo March opposite Maureen Mc Govern as Marmee in the musical adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel Little Women, for which she was nominated for her second Tony Award. She returned to Broadway at the Marquis Theatre in May 2006 in The Drowsy Chaperone, a spoof of 1920s musicals.She played Janet van de Graaff, a famous Broadway starlet who opts to forgo a stage career in favor of married life.