A longtime star of the Broadway stage, Idina Menzel became the first person ever to claim both a Billboard Top 10 slot (for Holiday Wishes in 2014) and a Tony Award (for Wicked in 2003). A powerful soprano, Menzel began performing as a bar mitzvah singer at age fifteen, a job she continued while studying at NYU. She debuted on Broadway as Maureen Johnson in 1995’s Rent, a role she reprised on screen in 2005. She went on to perform in 2001’s Aida and the pre-Broadway run of the Vagina Monologues, and then stunned audiences as the lead in Wicked in New York in 2003 and London in 2006. In 2014 she won an Oscar and two Grammys for her work in Disney’s Frozen. From 2010–2013 she played a recurring role as Shelby Corcoran on Glee. As of 2014 she stars in If/Then, a Broadway musical, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award. A longtime supporter of LGBT rights and AIDS advocacy, in 2010 Menzel also co-founded the A BroaderWay Foundation with then-husband Taye Diggs to support young people in the arts with scholarships and drama camps for underprivileged children.