MacKenzie Mauzy
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MacKenzie Grace Mauzy is an American
actress.
on CBS
soap opera
The Bold and the Beautiful
until December 2008 (she joined the cast on July 11, 2006).
She also played Lizzie Spaulding
on the CBS
soap Guiding Light
from October 2000 to August 2002. She has also guest starred on CBS
's CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
, CSI: NY
and NBC
's Law & Order: SVU.
Before launching her acting career, Mauzy worked in New York
, Virginia
, and North Carolina
in stage productions of classic plays such as A Christmas Carol
, Snow White
and Macbeth
. In 1998, Mauzy won the Anna Wentworth award for "best child actress" for her role as Annie Warbucks in the production of Annie
at the showtimes theatre in Roanoke, Virginia.
In July 2008, MacKenzie was originally cast as Ilse in the 1st National Tour of the hit Broadway musical Spring Awakening
. The role went to Steffi D (a Canadian Idol
finalist) because MacKenzie turned it down in order to be in the Broadway musical, A Tale of Two Cities
. Based on one of Charles Dickens
most popular novels, A Tale of Two Cities is set against the backdrop of the French Revolution
and centers on the themes of injustice, vengeance and the redemptive power of love. Mauzy played The Seamstress
in the musical, which was executive produced by Barbara Russell
and Ron Sharpe
. The play, which cost $16 million to produce, closed on November 16, 2009 after 33 previews and 68 regular performances.
More recently, Mauzy joined the Broadway cast of Next to Normal, temporarily standing by for Jennifer Damiano
as Natalie Goodman. She then succeeded Meghann Fahy
as Natalie Standby, with Fahy replacing Jennifer Damiano as the fulltime Natalie. Mauzy stayed with the Broadway production (going on for various times) until the Broadway production closed on Sunday, January 16, 2011 after 21 previews and 733 regular performances.
Currently, Mackenzie Mauzy has a starring role in the controversial new musical, White Noise, which is, in part, based on a real life white supremacist pop duo, Prussian Blue
. White Noise is playing a limited run at the Royal George theater in Chicago, IL. The play is presented by Whoopi Goldberg
and it opened on April 9, 2011 and received remarkable reviews and excellent audience feedback. It takes the audience on a frightening ride through the world of contemporary pop music with a special emphasis on "coded" racist lyrics. Learning materials have been prepared for the play by the Southern Poverty Law Center
.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
actress.
Career
Mauzy played the role of Phoebe ForresterPhoebe Forrester
Phoebe Forrester was a fictional character in CBS soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful. The first actress to play the character on a contract basis was Addison Hoover, who joined the show in April 2005 and left just months later. Since July 11, 2006, Phoebe has been played by MacKenzie Mauzy...
on CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
soap opera
Soap opera
A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...
The Bold and the Beautiful
The Bold and the Beautiful
The Bold and the Beautiful is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS Daytime. It premiered on March 23, 1987....
until December 2008 (she joined the cast on July 11, 2006).
She also played Lizzie Spaulding
Lizzie Spaulding
Elizabeth Lillian "Lizzie" Lewis was a fictional character on the CBS daytime soap opera Guiding Light. She was one of the soap's most popular and featured characters. She was the daughter of supercouple Phillip Spaulding and ex-wife, Beth Raines...
on the CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
soap Guiding Light
Guiding Light
Guiding Light is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest running drama in television and radio history, running from 1937 until 2009...
from October 2000 to August 2002. She has also guest starred on CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
's CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is an American crime drama television series, which premiered on CBS on October 6, 2000. The show was created by Anthony E. Zuiker and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer...
, CSI: NY
CSI: NY
CSI: NY is an American police procedural television series that premiered on September 22, 2004, on CBS. The show follows the investigations of a team of NYPD forensic scientists and police officers as they unveil the circumstances behind mysterious and unusual deaths as well as other crimes...
and NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
's Law & Order: SVU.
Before launching her acting career, Mauzy worked in New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
, Virginia
Virginia
The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...
, and North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte...
in stage productions of classic plays such as A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens first published by Chapman & Hall on 17 December 1843. The story tells of sour and stingy Ebenezer Scrooge's ideological, ethical, and emotional transformation after the supernatural visits of Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of...
, Snow White
Snow White
"Snow White" is a fairy tale known from many countries in Europe, the best known version being the German one collected by the Brothers Grimm...
and Macbeth
Macbeth
The Tragedy of Macbeth is a play by William Shakespeare about a regicide and its aftermath. It is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy and is believed to have been written sometime between 1603 and 1607...
. In 1998, Mauzy won the Anna Wentworth award for "best child actress" for her role as Annie Warbucks in the production of Annie
Annie (musical)
Annie is a Broadway musical based upon the popular Harold Gray comic strip Little Orphan Annie, with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, and the book by Thomas Meehan. The original Broadway production opened in 1977 and ran for nearly six years with a blonde Annie as the poster...
at the showtimes theatre in Roanoke, Virginia.
In July 2008, MacKenzie was originally cast as Ilse in the 1st National Tour of the hit Broadway musical Spring Awakening
Spring Awakening
Spring Awakening is a rock musical adaptation of the controversial 1892 German play of the same title by Frank Wedekind. It features music by Duncan Sheik and a book and lyrics by Steven Sater. Set in late-19th century Germany, it concerns teenagers who are discovering the inner and outer tumult of...
. The role went to Steffi D (a Canadian Idol
Canadian Idol
Canadian Idol is a Canadian reality television competition show which aired on CTV, based on the British show Pop Idol. The show was a competition to find the most talented young singer in Canada, and was hosted by Ben Mulroney. Jon Dore was the "roving reporter" for the first three seasons...
finalist) because MacKenzie turned it down in order to be in the Broadway musical, A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 200 million copies sold, it ranks among the most famous works in the history of fictional literature....
. Based on one of Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period. Dickens enjoyed a wider popularity and fame than had any previous author during his lifetime, and he remains popular, having been responsible for some of English literature's most iconic...
most popular novels, A Tale of Two Cities is set against the backdrop of the French Revolution
French Revolution
The French Revolution , sometimes distinguished as the 'Great French Revolution' , was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France and Europe. The absolute monarchy that had ruled France for centuries collapsed in three years...
and centers on the themes of injustice, vengeance and the redemptive power of love. Mauzy played The Seamstress
The Seamstress (A Tale of Two Cities)
The seamstress is a fictional character in Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities.-Overview:The seamstress is an unnamed twenty-year-old woman featured as a desperately poor peasant accused of plotting against the French Republic by Robespierre's Committee of Public Safety during the Terror of the...
in the musical, which was executive produced by Barbara Russell
Barbara Russell
Barbra Russell is an American stage actor, singer, and Broadway producer. She is a classically trained vocalist majoring in Music Performance at the College of Saint Elizabeth at Covent Station, New Jersey where she won first place in the prestigious Florence Boughton Young Artist Competition...
and Ron Sharpe
Ron Sharpe
Ronald Maxy Sharpe in Adelaide, South Australia is regarded as South Australia's and Australia's finest ever baseball player....
. The play, which cost $16 million to produce, closed on November 16, 2009 after 33 previews and 68 regular performances.
More recently, Mauzy joined the Broadway cast of Next to Normal, temporarily standing by for Jennifer Damiano
Jennifer Damiano
Jennifer Damiano is an American actress and singer, most known for originating the role of Natalie Goodman in Next to Normal on Broadway. She was nominated for the 2009 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance in that musical...
as Natalie Goodman. She then succeeded Meghann Fahy
Meghann Fahy
Meghann Fahy is an American actress and singer, best known for her role as Natalie Goodman in Next to Normal and as Hannah O'Connor on One Life to Live.- Personal life :...
as Natalie Standby, with Fahy replacing Jennifer Damiano as the fulltime Natalie. Mauzy stayed with the Broadway production (going on for various times) until the Broadway production closed on Sunday, January 16, 2011 after 21 previews and 733 regular performances.
Currently, Mackenzie Mauzy has a starring role in the controversial new musical, White Noise, which is, in part, based on a real life white supremacist pop duo, Prussian Blue
Prussian blue
Prussian blue is a dark blue pigment with the idealized formula Fe718. Another name for the color Prussian blue is Berlin blue or, in painting, Parisian blue. Turnbull's blue is the same substance but is made from different reagents....
. White Noise is playing a limited run at the Royal George theater in Chicago, IL. The play is presented by Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg is an American comedian, actress, singer-songwriter, political activist, author and talk show host.Goldberg made her film debut in The Color Purple playing Celie, a mistreated black woman in the Deep South. She received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress and won...
and it opened on April 9, 2011 and received remarkable reviews and excellent audience feedback. It takes the audience on a frightening ride through the world of contemporary pop music with a special emphasis on "coded" racist lyrics. Learning materials have been prepared for the play by the Southern Poverty Law Center
Southern Poverty Law Center
The Southern Poverty Law Center is an American nonprofit civil rights organization noted for its legal victories against white supremacist groups; legal representation for victims of hate groups; monitoring of alleged hate groups, militias and extremist organizations; and educational programs that...
.
Filmography
- (2000-2002): Guiding LightGuiding LightGuiding Light is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest running drama in television and radio history, running from 1937 until 2009...
as Lizzie SpauldingLizzie SpauldingElizabeth Lillian "Lizzie" Lewis was a fictional character on the CBS daytime soap opera Guiding Light. She was one of the soap's most popular and featured characters. She was the daughter of supercouple Phillip Spaulding and ex-wife, Beth Raines... - (2006–2008): The Bold and the BeautifulThe Bold and the BeautifulThe Bold and the Beautiful is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS Daytime. It premiered on March 23, 1987....
as Phoebe ForresterPhoebe ForresterPhoebe Forrester was a fictional character in CBS soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful. The first actress to play the character on a contract basis was Addison Hoover, who joined the show in April 2005 and left just months later. Since July 11, 2006, Phoebe has been played by MacKenzie Mauzy... - (2007): Cold Case as Anna
- (2010): Drop Dead DivaDrop Dead DivaDrop Dead Diva is an American legal comedy-drama/fantasy television series that debuted on Lifetime on July 12, 2009. The hour-long series, which was created by Josh Berman, is produced by Sony Pictures Television...
as TinaTina- Fictional characters:*Tina Branford, a fictional character from the Final Fantasy series; main character of Final Fantasy VI *Tina Hopkins, EastEnders character*Tina McIntyre, a character from the popular British soap Coronation Street...