Laura Bell Bundy Biography
Born: April 10, 1981
A fixture of American musical theater during the mid- to late 2000s, Laura Bell Bundy sported a résumé that could have easily been mistaken for a laundry list of most covetable Broadway roles. Bundy gravitated to stage performance at the tender age of nine in regional and Manhattan-area theater in such productions as Ruthless! The Musical, but achieved greatest prominence on the Great White Way for originating the role of Amber von Tussle in the Tony Award-winning musical of +Hairspray (2002), loosely adapted from the 1988 John_Waters comedy of the same name. Subsequent stage roles included that of Glinda in the musical +Wicked (adapted from the Gregory_Maguire novel) and valley girl Elle Woods in Legally Blonde: The Musical. Bundy later appeared in Legally Blonde the Musical: The Search for the New Elle Woods, a competition-themed reality series that -- per its title -- depicted the contest of the various tryouts hoping to be selected as the successor for the +Blonde role.
Alongside her theatrical work, Bundy also built up a substantial array of feature film portrayals in outings including Life with Mikey (1993), Jumanji (1996), and Dreamgirls (2006). She also essayed a role on the daytime soap The_Guiding_Light and embarked on a recording career beginning with the release of the country and western album Longing for a Place Already Gone. Nathan Southern, Rovi
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