Sutton Foster was born in Statesboro, Georgia and raised in Troy, Michigan.
At the age of fifteen, she was a contestant on the
television show Star Search and also auditioned for the
cast of The Mickey Mouse Club. She left Troy High School,
where she had been active in the Troy Theatre Ensemble,
before her senior year (she received her diploma via
correspondence courses) to be in the national tour of
The Will Rogers Follies directed by Tommy Tune.
She then attended Carnegie Mellon University for one year,
but left to pursue a theatrical career full-time.

Foster's big break was reminiscent of 42nd Street when,
during rehearsals of the pre-Broadway run of Thoroughly
Modern Millie at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego, she
was pulled from the chorus to replace the leading lady.
Any apprehension about an unknown playing the lead in a
nearly $10 million Broadway production was proven unfounded
when she opened at the Marquis Theatre to primarily rave reviews. ,br> Foster went on to win the 2002 Tony Award for Best Leading
Actress in a Musical and the Drama Desk Award for
Outstanding Actress in a Musical for her performance.

In 2005, Foster starred as Jo March opposite Maureen
McGovern as Marmee in the short-lived musical adaptation of
the Louisa May Alcott classic Little Women, for which she
was nominated for her second Tony Award.

Foster returned to the Marquis Theatre on Broadway in May
2006 in The Drowsy Chaperone, a spoof of 1920s musicals.
She played the role of Janet van de Graff, a famous
Broadway starlet who opts to forgo a stage career in favor
of married life. Her performance in Chaperone earned her a
third Tony nomination.
In September the same year, Foster married her former
Millie co-star, and Tony nominee, Christian Borle.

In 2007, Foster was offered two television acting roles.
The first as the sister of host Johnny on Johnny and the
Sprites, a children's musical puppet show. Next came the
role of Coco, the girlfriend of central character Bret,
in a three episode story arc on the HBO television series
Flight of the Conchords.

Foster is currently starring in Mel Brooks' new musical
theater production of Young Frankenstein. She plays the
German yodeling fraulein Inga.

(Credit to Wikipedia for the biography)