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Keala Settle

Highest Rated: 90% Wicked (2024)

Lowest Rated: 27% Rent Live (2019)

Birthday: Nov 5, 1975

Birthplace: Laie, Oahu, Hawaii, USA

Keala Settle was a celebrated singer, Broadway musical actress, and film actress who was best known for her role as the bearded lady Lettie Lutz in the 2017 Hugh Jackman film "The Greatest Showman." Born and raised in Hawaii, Settle began singing at a very young age. After attending Southern Utah University, she set out on a singing/acting career. Settle moved to New York City and began auditioning for plays. Like all aspiring theater actors in New York, Settle had her sights on Broadway. After spending a number of years struggling in New York, Settle finally made her Broadway debut in 2011 in the musical "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert." Two years later she returned to Broadway as Norma Valverde, a role she originated, in "Hands on a Hardbody." Settle earned widespread praise for her role in the musical, and even earned a Tony nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. After a number of years making a name for herself on Broadway, Settle made her film acting debut by appearing alongside Meryl Streep in the musical comedy "Riki and the Flash" (2015). Two years later she returned to the screen, this time acting alongside Hugh Jackman, in the biographical musical "The Greatest Showman." In the film Settle sung the song "This Is Me," which went on to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song. After the success of "The Greatest Showman," Settle went on to play Cy, Mrs. Davis, and various other characters in a live television broadcast of the celebrated musical "Rent." "Rent: Live" was broadcast on Fox on January 27, 2019.

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Highest rated movies

90% 96% Wicked Watchlist 59% 63% All My Life Watchlist 56% 86% The Greatest Showman Watchlist
27% 56% Rent Live
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38% This Time Next Year
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94% American Reject Watchlist

Filmography

Movies

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90% 96% Wicked Miss Coddle (Character) - 2024
No Score Yet 38% This Time Next Year Bev (Character) - 2024
No Score Yet 94% American Reject Unknown (Character) - 2022
59% 63% All My Life Viv Lawrence (Character) $909.9K 2020
27% 56% Rent Live Unknown (Character) - 2019
56% 86% The Greatest Showman Lettie Lutz/The Bearded Lady (Character) $174.0M 2017

TV

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No Score Yet 51% Murder in Provence Hélène Paulik (Character) 2022
45% No Score Yet The Academy Awards Music Performer 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Ellen DeGeneres Show Music Performer 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Graham Norton Show Guest 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet Harry Guest 2017
38% 76% Maya & Marty Music Performer 2016