Montego Glover
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Montego Glover | |
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.jpg) Glover in 2025 | |
| Born | February 9, 1974 Macon, Georgia, USA |
| Occupations | Actress, singer |
| Years active | 2001–present |
Montego Glover (born February 9, 1974)[1] is an American stage actress and singer. She has been nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her role in the musical Memphis and won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical.
On 1 September 2015, Glover starting playing Fantine in the second Broadway revival of Les Misérables, she left the production on 3 February 2016.[2]
From 9 September 2017 to 31 March 31 2019, Glover portrayed Angelica Schuyler in the Chicago cast of the Broadway blockbuster Hamilton.[3]
On 6 September 6 2022, she started sharing the role of the Witch with Patina Miller in the 2022 Broadway revival of Into the Woods.[4] She left the production on 15 December 2022 being replaced by Joaquina Kalukango.[5] She reprised her role in the 2023 national tour.[6] Glover starred as Rose in Gypsy on Broadway from June to August 2025 alternating with Audra McDonald.[7][8]
Glover was born in Macon, Georgia and raised in Chattanooga, Tennessee. She attended the Chattanooga School for the Arts & Sciences and then attended Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Music Theatre with Honors.[9] Glover sang in church choirs "for as long as I can remember".[10]
She originated the role of Felicia in the musical Memphis. Glover received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical for her performance. Additionally, she won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical (in a tie with Catherine Zeta-Jones).[11] She displays a "rich, rangy and emotionally powerful voice in several standout numbers" according to Playbill.[12] Montego has been with Memphis since it started, including four regional productions[13] and appears in the live filming of the musical, Memphis: Direct from Broadway.
Her Broadway debut was as an understudy for Celie and Nettie in the musical The Color Purple.
In other work, she has been a "Star Wars videogame avatar and a TV commercial voice-over artist."[14] She worked at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida in the late 1990s. Her voice is featured on the Festival of the Lion King official soundtrack.[15]
She also guest starred on the USA Network show, White Collar in the episode "Judgement Day".
