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"Today&apos;s Birthday, May 30: US singer and actor Idina Menzel (1971 - ) Frozen star Idina Menzel has lent her voice to help parents of young children stuck at home during the coronavirus pandemic. She recently joined other artists to perform classics in the Disney Family Singalong and also appeared in online listening parties. Idina Kim Mentzel was born in New York in 1971, attending Syosset High School before studying drama at New York University. She rose to fame in the Broadway rock musical Rent in 1996, earning a Tony Award nomination for her role as performance artist Maureen Johnston, which she reprised for the 2005 film adaptation. In 2003 Menzel appeared in the musical Wicked as the green-skinned Elphaba, a character based on the Wicked Witch of the West in the Wizard of Oz, winning a Tony for the role the following year. She turned her talents to animated film, first in a non-singing role in Disney&apos;s Enchanted (2007) before her signature role in 2013 as the musical voice of Elsa in Frozen, which became the highest-grossing animated film of all time. Menzel sung the film&apos;s power ballad Let It Go, which was an instant hit across the globe and won her both an Oscar and a Grammy. She voiced Elsa in Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018) and in Frozen&apos;s 2019 sequel, as well as for video games including Disney Infinity and Kingdom Hearts III. Her film stardom was cemented in 2019 when she and Elsa co-actor Kristen Bell received neighbouring stars on Hollywood&apos;s Walk of Fame. Menzel also appeared as Shelby Corcoran in musical TV series Glee from 2010 to 2013, and more recently alongside Adam Sandler in the Netflix crime thriller Uncut Gems. She wed actor Taye Diggs in 2003 and the couple had a son before divorcing after 10 years of marriage. Menzel began dating actor Aaron Lohr in 2015 and the pair married two years later."
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