Occupation Singer, actress Name Debbie Gravitte | Spouse Beau Gravitte Movies Isn't She Great | |
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Born September 29, 1954 (age 69) ( 1954-09-29 ) Los Angeles, California, U.S. Role Actress · debbiegravitte.com Albums Part Of Your World: The Alan Menken Album Awards Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical Similar People Bruce Kimmel, Faith Prince, Jerome Robbins, Doris Day, Grover Dale |
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Debbie Shapiro Gravitte (born September 29, 1954) is an American actress and singer.
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Shapiro was born in Los Angeles, California,
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Gravitte made her Broadway debut in the chorus of They're Playing Our Song in 1979. She performed on Broadway in Blues in the Night in 1982; Zorba in 1983; Les Misérables as Fantine replacement, 1994; and Chicago as Matron "Mama" Morton replacement in 2003.
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In 1989 she appeared in Jerome Robbins' Broadway, for which she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. She was nominated for the Drama Desk Award. She was nominated for the 1981 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical, for the Frank Loesser revue Perfectly Frank (1990).
She has appeared in several Encores! staged concerts at New York City Center, including Carnival (2002), The Boys from Syracuse(1997) and Tenderloin (2000).
Her solo album Part of Your World celebrates the songs of Alan Menken, and she is featured on the recording Unsung Sondheim.
Her sole screen credit is the 2000 Jacqueline Susann biopic Isn't She Great, in which she portrayed singer Eydie Gormé.
On October 27, 2012, Shapiro Gravitte starred in the Broadway-style musical Loving the Silent Tears, which premiered in Los Angeles, California.
She performs in concerts, including with the National Symphony with Marvin Hamlisch, the Boston Pops, the Atlanta Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Utah Symphony, St. Lous, Houston, and San Diego Symphonies.
Family
She is married to actor/singer Beau Gravitte; the couple has three children. The Bay Area Reporter noted: "Being at home to rear her three children with actor husband Beau Gravitte was a big reason she turned to the life of a traveling concert performer, with big at-home gaps built into the schedule."