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Years active
  
1980s-present

Spouse
  
Bill Tatum (m. 1984)

Role
  
Actress


Name
  
Karen Ziemba

Website
  
www.karenziemba.com

Education
  
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Born
  
November 12, 1957 (age 67) (
1957-11-12
)
St. Joseph, Michigan, United States

Movies
  
The Producers, Once More with Feeling

Similar People
  
Susan Stroman, Debra Monk, John Kander, Bebe Neuwirth, Fred Ebb

Karen Ziemba (born November 12, 1957) is an American actress, singer and dancer, best known for her work in musical theatre. In 2000, she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance in Contact.

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Biography

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Ziemba was born in St. Joseph, Michigan, the daughter of Barbara Marie (Heidt) and Oscar Hugo Ziemba, an investment broker. Her grandmother, Winifred Heidt, was an opera singer. Ziemba attended the University of Akron (Ohio), where she studied dance. In 1977 she danced with the Ohio Ballet.

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Her Broadway debut was in A Chorus Line as Diana Morales. Later, she played the lead of Peggy Sawyer in 42nd Street. While appearing in 42nd Street, she was featured in the October 1984 issue of Playboy in the article "Babes of Broadway", in which she posed partially nude. Ziemba's other Broadway roles include Polly Baker in Crazy for You in 1992 as Polly Baker (replacement),Roxie Hart in Chicago (1998), and Belle Hagner in Teddy & Alice (1987).

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Ziemba appeared Off-Broadway in the Kander and Ebb revue And The World Goes 'Round (1991) and won the Drama Desk Award. She received a Drama Desk Award nomination (Best Actress in a Musical) for I Do! I Do! (1996). The next year, she was nominated for the 1997 Drama Desk Award (Outstanding Actress in a Musical) and a 1997 Tony Award (Actress in a Musical) for her role in Steel Pier (1997).

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In 2000, Ziemba won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance in Susan Stroman's Contact. She played the role of "the timid, abused mafioso's wife." The CurtainUp reviewer wrote of the savvy casting "...especially Karen Ziemba, who is finally in a show that make s full use of her dual talents as an actress and dancer...Ziemba (in Did You Move?), brings an amazing female Walter Mitty vulnerability to a frustrated wife having dinner with a husband..."

She appeared in Much Ado About Nothing as Beatrice at the Hartford Stage (Connecticut) and then the Shakespeare Theatre Company (Washington, DC) in November 2002 through January 5, 2003. In 2004 she received another Tony Award nomination (Best Featured Actress in a Musical) for Never Gonna Dance. In 2007, she portrayed the heartwarming lyricist Georgia Hendricks in Curtains, earning her fourth Tony Award nomination.

She performed with the New York City Opera in 110 in the Shade as Lizzie in 1992. The AP News reviewer wrote: "Ziemba's voice is clear and sweet, exactly what's needed for a song like Is It Really Me?." She performed the role of Cleo in the City Opera's production of The Most Happy Fella in 1991. The New York Times reviewer wrote: "...her voice had swagger, grainy brashness and brassy energy, undistracted by higher ambitions."

She has appeared in several New York City Center Encores! staged musicals, including The Pajama Game in 2002 (Babe Williams), Bye Bye Birdie in 2004 and On Your Toes in 2013 (Lil Dolan).

She also starred in the staged reading of Vincent Crapelli's Otherwise, with Beth Leavel and Laura Bonarrigo-Koffman.

Ziemba appeared as "Dolly Gallagher Levi" in Hello, Dolly! at the Drury Lane Theatre, Oak Brook, Illinois, in 2013.

She returned to Broadway in March 2014, in the new musical adaptation of Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway as the character "Eden Brent", directed by Susan Stroman.

In 2015 and 2017 Karen returned to Off-Broadway to play the role of Mom/Eileen in Kid Victory..

On television she has appeared on Law & Order and on film in The Producers (2005) and the ill-fated, never released remake of The Devil and Daniel Webster.

Personal life

She and Bill Tatum were married in 1984.

Filmography

Actress
2023
Sami (TV Series) as
Karen Ziemba
- The Temp (2023) - Karen Ziemba
2023
The Blacklist (TV Series) as
Judge Roberta Vance
- The Night Owl (2023) - Judge Roberta Vance
2021
Quarantween: the Musical (Video) as
Grandma Charlotte
2020
Propaganda! (Podcast Series) as
Barbara Joblove
2018
Elementary (TV Series) as
Dr. Amelia Furing
- The Worms Crawl in, the Worms Crawl Out (2018) - Dr. Amelia Furing
2017
Nunsense (TV Series) as
Sr. Mary Leo
- Pilot (2017) - Sr. Mary Leo
2015
Madam Secretary (TV Series) as
Candice Templeton
- Catch and Release (2015) - Candice Templeton
2015
The Good Wife (TV Series) as
Lina Banner
- Taxed (2015) - Lina Banner
2012
The History of Future Folk as
Tour Guide
2010
Take Out (Short) as
Leading Laugher
2004
Law & Order: Criminal Intent (TV Series) as
Vilma / Isabel Dawson
- Family Values (2009) - Vilma
- D.A.W. (2004) - Isabel Dawson
2009
Once More with Feeling (Video) as
Wedding Singer
2008
N. (Short) as
Sheila Bonsaint
2007
Scrubs (TV Series) as
Radiologist
- My Musical (2007) - Radiologist
2007
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series) as
Tierney's Doctor
- Scheherazade (2007) - Tierney's Doctor
2005
Pedalfoot (Short) as
Michael's Mom
2005
The Producers as
First Nighter
2003
Shortcut to Happiness as
Mrs. Miller
2002
The End of the Bar as
Biscuit Lady
1998
Law & Order (TV Series) as
Detective Tarvis
- Venom (1998) - Detective Tarvis
Music Department
2023
Sami (TV Series) (singer - 1 episode)
- The Temp (2023) - (singer)
Soundtrack
1993
Great Performances (TV Series) (performer - 3 episodes)
- My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies (1999) - (performer: "Nowadays/Hot Honey Rag", "I Wanna be a Rockette")
- Ira Gershwin at 100: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (1997) - (performer: "My One and Only Highland Fling", "Put Me to the Test")
- Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (1993) - (performer: "Sooner or Later")
1997
The 51st Annual Tony Awards (TV Special) (performer: "Everybody Dance")
Self
2021
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age (Documentary) as
Self
2021
Save Birdland: A Celebration of Music, History, and Community (TV Special) as
Self
2020
Save West Bank Cafe (TV Special) as
Self
2020
Stars in the House (TV Series) as
Self
- Curtains Reunion (2020) - Self
- Cancer Support Community Virtual Celebration! (2020) - Self
2017
Broadway.com #LiveatFive (TV Series) as
Self
- Karen Ziemba (2017) - Self
2015
Theater Talk (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- "Kid Victory" and Jerry Herman on "Hello, Dolly!" (2017) - Self - Guest
- Jake Gyllenhaal & Ruth Wilson on "Constellations" plus Musical Tribute to Irving Berlin (2015) - Self - Guest
2016
Broadway Supports Lihsa (Short) as
Self
2014
The 68th Annual Tony Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Host: Creative Arts Awards
2007
The 61st Annual Tony Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Nominee
2002
I, Detective (TV Series documentary) as
Self - Narrator
- The Cradle Will Rock (2006) - Self - Narrator (voice)
- Chance Encounter (2005) - Self - Narrator (voice)
- Driven (2005) - Self - Narrator (voice)
- Behind Mansion Walls (2004) - Self - Narrator (voice)
- After Hours (2004) - Self - Narrator (voice)
- Stone Cold (2004) - Self - Narrator (voice)
- Uninvited Guest (2004) - Self - Narrator (voice)
- Deadly Pledge (2004) - Self - Narrator (voice)
- Secret Games (2004) - Self - Narrator (voice)
- A Family Affair (2003) - Self - Narrator (voice)
- Kidnapped (2003) - Self - Narrator (voice)
- A Double Life (2003) - Self - Narrator (voice)
- Desperate Measures (2003) - Self - Narrator (voice)
- A Few Good Men (2003) - Self - Narrator (voice)
- Dangerous Relations (2003) - Self - Narrator (voice)
- Tools of the Trade (2002) - Self - Narrator (voice)
- No Witnesses (2002) - Self - Narrator (voice)
- Identity Unkown (2002) - Self - Narrator (voice)
- While He Was Sleeping (2002) - Self - Narrator (voice)
- Calling Card (2002) - Self - Narrator (voice)
- Family Secrets (2002) - Self - Narrator (voice)
- Message in a Bottle (2002) - Self - Narrator (voice)
- Swindle (2002) - Self - Narrator (voice)
- Bad Mix (2002) - Self - Narrator (voice)
2004
The 58th Annual Tony Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Nominee
1993
Great Performances (TV Series) as
Self / Self - Performer
- 30th Anniversary: A Celebration in Song (2003) - Self
- My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies (1999) - Self - Performer
- Ira Gershwin at 100: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (1997) - Self
- Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (1993) - Self - Performer
2003
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (Documentary) as
Self
2000
The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (TV Special documentary) as
Self
2000
The 54th Annual Tony Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Winner
1998
In Performance at the White House (TV Special) as
Self
1997
The 51st Annual Tony Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Nominee & Performer

References

Karen Ziemba Wikipedia


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