1. Phillipa Anne Soo is an American actress and singer.
27 Facts About Phillipa Soo
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Phillipa Soo earned a nomination for the 2016 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical and received a Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album that same year.
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Phillipa Soo's performance was captured in the Disney+ live stage recording of Hamilton which was released in 2020 for which she earned a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie at the 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards.
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Phillipa Soo has appeared in the films Over the Moon, The Broken Hearts Gallery, and Tick, Tick.
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Phillipa Soo has taken supporting roles in the Hulu miniseries Dopesick and the Apple TV+ series Shining Girls.
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Phillipa Soo was born in Libertyville, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago.
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Phillipa Soo's father is Asian American and her mother is European.
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Phillipa Soo's father is a doctor and her mother, who is from Southern Illinois, is involved in the arts.
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Phillipa Soo graduated from The Juilliard School's acting program in 2012.
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Phillipa Soo played Eliza when the show premiered Off-Broadway at The Public Theater and on Broadway at the Richard Rodgers Theater.
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Phillipa Soo played her final performance in Hamilton on July 9,2016, and the role of Eliza was taken over by Lexi Lawson.
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Phillipa Soo played the titular character of Amelie Poulain in the pre-Broadway engagement of Amelie at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles from December 2016 to January 2017.
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Phillipa Soo reprised her role when Amelie began preview performances on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre on March 9,2017, opening officially on April 3.
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That same year Phillipa Soo returned on Broadway as Rebecca in The Parisian Woman, an original play by Beau Willimon.
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In 2022, Phillipa Soo portrayed suffragist Inez Milholland in Shaina Taub's musical Suffs.
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Phillipa Soo did not reprise her role when Suffs transferred to Broadway.
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Phillipa Soo starred opposite Sara Bareilles, Brian D'Arcy James, Gavin Creel, Joshua Henry, Patina Miller, and Cheyenne Jackson.
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Phillipa Soo would go on to win her second Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards for her work in Into the Woods.
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In 2013, Phillipa Soo was cast in a small recurring role in the NBC television series Smash as the character Lexi.
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Phillipa Soo appeared in five episodes in the second season before the show's cancellation.
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Phillipa Soo had a small supporting role as Nia in the 2014 television pilot Dangerous Liaisons, but it did not get picked up to series.
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In 2018, it was announced that Phillipa Soo had been cast in the CBS series The Code.
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In 2024, Phillipa Soo was cast as Avery Morgan in ABC medical drama series Doctor Odyssey.
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Phillipa Soo co-wrote a children's book, Piper Chen Sings, with her sister-in-law Maris Pasquale Doran.
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Phillipa Soo played the role of Fox on the 2024 concept album Warriors by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis.
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Phillipa Soo became engaged to actor Steven Pasquale in February 2016.
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Phillipa Soo has a dog named Billie, which she adopted for her 30th birthday in 2020.