Jennifer Cody

Jennifer Cody

Birth : 1969-11-10, Henrietta, New York, USA

History

Cody was born on November 10, 1969 in Greece, New York. She began dancing at an early age. She studied acting at Fredonia State University. She and her husband, actor and occasional co-star Hunter Foster, live in New York City with their two dogs, both Shih tzus. Her career began as Dainty June in the touring production of Gypsy immediately after graduating from college. She then began her stage career on Broadway as a replacement in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats in the role of Rumpleteazer (after touring with the production). She was featured in Grease as Cha-Cha (replacement), Beauty and the Beast as a Silly Girl (replacement), Seussical (as Cat's Helper and Ensemble) (2000), Urinetown the Musical (2001), Taboo (2003), and The Pajama Game (as (Poopsie) (2006). She starred as the Shoemaker's Elf, among other characters, in the original Broadway cast of Shrek the Musical, opposite sister-in-law Sutton Foster, from November 2008 through July 14, 2009.

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Jennifer Cody

Movies

Paper Spiders
Mrs. Jensen
A bittersweet story about coming of age in the shadow of mental illness.
Alistair's Wednesday
Krystalle
Alistair Jones, a twenty-something hypochondriac fears she may be suffering from mental illness when the rash spreading on her back can be seen by no one.
Lucky Stiff
Mary Alice
An English shoe salesman inherits 6 million dollars from a recently deceased uncle he has never met before, on the condition that he takes the uncle's corpse on a trip to Monte Carlo.
Shrek the Musical
Duloc Doll
Shrek The Musical is a musical with music by Jeanine Tesori and book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire. It is based on the 2001 DreamWorks Animation's film Shrek and William Steig's 1990 book Shrek! It was nominated for 8 Tony Awards including Best Musical.
Khumba
Fifi (voice)
A half-striped zebra is blamed for the drought and leaves his herd in search of his missing stripes. He is joined on his quest by an overprotective wildebeest and a flamboyant ostrich; they defeat the tyrannical leopard and save his herd.
Heart of Broadway: The Ensemble Behind Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS
Herself
Heart of Broadway goes inside Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS for an in-depth look at the organization and its key players. Since 1988, they have raised more than $195 million for essential services for people with AIDS and other critical illnesses.
The Princess and the Frog
Charlotte (voice)
A waitress, desperate to fulfill her dreams as a restaurant owner, is set on a journey to turn a frog prince back into a human being, but she has to face the same problem after she kisses him.
Damnation of Souls
Corpse Hands #3
After being left by her boyfriend, a woman reacts with violent self-destruction and finds herself trapped in a nightmare of repetitive hell... On in a deja'vu world.
Magic in the Bayou: The Making of a Princess
Self
Featurette on the making of Disney's Princess and the Frog