Donna Lynne Champlin

Champlin was born in Rochester, New York, to a technical writer mother and a scientist father. She participated in various lessons, theatre productions, and national and international competitions throughout her childhood, in voice, piano, flute, theatre and dance. While still in college, she performed as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz with Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera. ==Career==

Champlin took on the title role of Very Warm for May, her Broadway debut in ''James Joyce's The Dead, then By Jeeves, Hollywood Arms, Sweeney Todd, Billy Elliot the Musical, and The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, for which she won the 2007 Obie Award. Other credits include: No, No Nanette, Very Good Eddie, First Lady Suite, Harold and Maude, My Life with Albertine, Bloomer Girl, and Jolson''. She also performed with Len Cariou in the Simply Sondheim inaugural concert which celebrated the opening of the Sondheim Center for the Performing Arts. Champlin released a solo album entitled Old Friends, performs a one-woman show entitled Finishing the Hat, and teaches acting at the Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Hartford, and New York University. ==Personal life==

Champlin married actor Andrew Arrow in 2010 and they have one child. They live in New York City. She spends her downtime writing, raising money for JDRF, BCEFA, The Actors Fund, and with her family. ==Filmography==

Television Film Podcasts ==Theatre credits==