Meanwhile, she booked her first film role: Commander Paylor in the concluding two installments of the blockbuster "Hunger Games" series. Miller also earned the 2013 Astaire Award for Outstanding Female Dancer in a Broadway show for that role. Miller not only put her own successful slant on the Bob Fosse choreography Vereen so expressively danced in the role, she took home her own version -Best Lead Performance by an Actress - of the Tony he won (Best Performance by a Leading Actor). Her emcee-like character in "Pippin," known only as Leading Player, was originally portrayed on Broadway by Ben Vereen. Nun too shabby, Miller scored nominations for both an Olivier and a Tony in her debut role on the main stems.īowing out of her habitual role in 2012, Miller slipped into another lead, in the Broadway-bound American Repertory Theater revival of "Pippin." Having excelled in a role indelibly associated with Whoopi Goldberg, Miller now found herself stepping into the soft shoes of another iconic entertainer.
Then -remarkably, for an essentially unknown performer- she was invited to helm the 2011 Broadway transfer.
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In 2006, just out of college at Carnegie Mellon University, where she studied under Billy Porter - "Kinky Boots" ' original Broadway Lola - Miller's first professional gig was understudying the lead role of Deloris Van Carter in the Pasadena and Atlanta development runs of "Sister Act: The Musical," a part played in the original movie version by Whoopi Goldberg.Īnd while Miller only got to play the lead for a few nights during those tryout months, she made a powerful enough impression to be offered the starring role for the show's 2010 opening in London's West End, where she was eventually joined by Goldberg in a stint as the Mother Superior. Haven't heard of Miller yet? If you consider yourself part of the theatrical cognoscenti, you'll want to catch up with the curve and check out the South Carolina-born dynamo's first-ever San Francisco appearances Feinstein's at the Nikko next weekend. If the rocket-like trajectory of her still-young career continues apace, that ought to happen any minute now. She remained with the production till it closed on October 30, 2010."I'd really like to originate a theater role," says 31-year-old singer and actress Patina Miller when asked about her future aspirations. Benedict Nightingale of The Times cited her "terrific voice" and continued, "Add warmth, humour, vivacity-and you've a star who lacks Whoopi's wry vulnerability but adds dazzle to the razzle around her," while David Benedict of Variety thought her "powerhouse vocals, pitched somewhere between Gloria Gaynor and Whitney Houston, and her thrillingly fast vibrato act as the show's engine." For this role Miller won the Theatregoers Choice Award for Best Actress in a Musical and was also nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical. The London production opened on Jat the London Palladium, and although it received mixed reviews, most critics singled out Miller and praised her performance. Miller was cast as the lead role of Delores Van Cartier in Sister Act, a role she had understudied for six months during its initial run in the United States, following a year-long international search.
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