Sutton Foster Biography

Sutton Foster was born in Statesboro, Georgia, and raised in Troy, Michigan. At 15, she appeared on Star Search and auditioned for The Mickey Mouse Club. She left Troy High School before graduating to join the national tour of The Will Rogers Follies, later attending Carnegie Mellon University for one year before leaving to pursue theatre full-time.

Her early career was marked by steady work in touring and Broadway productions, including Grease, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Annie, and Les Misérables. Her breakthrough came when she stepped into the title role in Thoroughly Modern Millie, earning critical acclaim and winning the 2002 Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical.

She went on to lead major Broadway productions such as Little Women, The Drowsy Chaperone, Young Frankenstein, Shrek the Musical, and the Tony-winning revival of Anything Goes, for which she received a second Tony Award. 

Alongside her stage career, she expanded into television and film, playing a regular role on the series Bunheads from 2012 to 2013, and playing the lead role on Younger opposite Hilary Duff, from 2015 to 2021. She has also had numerous guest roles in other series.

She returned to Broadway in the 2022 musical The Music Man opposite Hugh Jackman, whom she is now dating; Sweeney Todd, and Once Upon a Mattress, while also teaching, touring concerts, and publishing her memoir Hooked.

Sutton was married to Christian Borle from 2006 to 2010, and then she was married to Ted Griffin in 2014, with whom she has a child. In October 2024, she asked Griffin for a divorce, after having begun an affair with Hugh Jackman. 

Filmography:

Anything Goes (2021)
Mired (2016)
Gravy (2015)
The Nobodies (2014)
The Angriest Man in Brooklyn (2014)
Shrek the Musical (2013)
Just in Case (2008)
Mr. Terbillion’s Ambition (2008)