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Idina Menzel

1971 - Today

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Idina Kim Menzel ( ih-DEE-nə men-ZEL; née Mentzel; born May 30, 1971) is an American actress and singer. Particularly known for her work in musicals on Broadway, she has been nicknamed the "Queen of Broadway" for her commanding stage presence, powerful mezzo-soprano, and reputation as one of the most influential stage actors of her generation. Having achieved mainstream success across stage, screen, and music, her accolades include a Tony Award and a Daytime Emmy Award. Menzel rose to prominence as a stage actress in 1996, making her Broadway debut as performance artist Maureen Johnson in the rock musical Rent, which earned her a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Idina Menzel is the 605th most popular actor (up from 649th in 2019), the 1,104th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,208th in 2019) and the 296th most popular American Actor.

Idina Menzel is most famous for her role as Elsa in the Disney movie Frozen.

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410k

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Past 12 months

67.32

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Page views of Idina Menzel by language

Over the past year Idina Menzel has had the most page views in the Japanese wikipedia edition with 66,833 views, followed by German (63,370), and Spanish (63,273). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Japanese (135.97%), Uzbek (70.10%), and Finnish (51.80%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Idina Menzel ranks 605 out of 13,578. Before her are Erland Josephson, Betty White, Horst Buchholz, Dean Reed, Marlène Jobert, and Robert Vaughn. After her are Akshay Kumar, Mark Wahlberg, Margaret Rutherford, Coluche, Meg Ryan, and Shelley Duvall.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1971, Idina Menzel ranks 11. Before her are Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Pep Guardiola, Jada Pinkett Smith, Anna Netrebko, Julian Assange, and Winona Ryder. After her are Mark Wahlberg, Jeremy Renner, Snoop Dogg, Princess Märtha Louise of Norway, Ricky Martin, and Kim Jong-nam.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Idina Menzel ranks 1,104 out of 20,380. Before her are Stephen Covey (1932), Dean Reed (1938), Linda McCartney (1941), Richard Thaler (1945), Laura Bush (1946), and Robert Vaughn (1932). After her are Andrew S. Tanenbaum (1944), George Jung (1942), Mary Ainsworth (1913), Richard Serra (1939), Robert F. Furchgott (1916), and Edmund Phelps (1933).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Idina Menzel ranks 296. Before her are David Soul (1943), Brendan Fraser (1968), Joanne Woodward (1930), Betty White (1922), Dean Reed (1938), and Robert Vaughn (1932). After her are Mark Wahlberg (1971), Meg Ryan (1961), Shelley Duvall (1949), James Gandolfini (1961), Jim Belushi (1954), and Stanley Tucci (1960).

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