Marissa Jaret Winokur

- Birth date: February 2, 1973
- Birthplace: New York City
- Youngest child of four
- Spouse: Judah Miller
- Graduated from The American Musical and Dramatic Academy
- Toured with the musical Grease
- Survived Cervical Cancer in 2001
- Had vocal parts in American Dad and King of the Hill.
- Tony Award winner
- Danced on Dancing with the Stars season 6
- Dancing partner: Tony Dovolani
- Chose to have a child by surrogacy

Marissa Jaret Winokur is a Tony Award winning American actress who impressed her peers with her performance as "Tracy Turnblad" in Hairspray. She has stared in several stage plays, television programs, and motion pictures. She partnered with Tony Dovolani to dance on the reality television show Dancing with the Stars in 2008. Her film credits include Fever Pitch and Lifetime television movie Betrayals. She had a role in the television series Stacked as Katrina and is the host of the show Dance Your Ass Off.
Quotes:
- "I love the gays! They’re the best. If I could have any audience, it’d be the gays because they’re loyal forever."
- "While I was doing Hairspray, it was like There are so many people that are discriminated against for being heavy! I never felt like I was, but that’s just because I’m a crazy girl who thinks of myself as a tall skinny girl…a tall skinny blonde girl! But doing Hairspray really showed me that there are so many young girls and so many gay men and any minority that were writing me letters. I didn’t set out to be a role model at all."

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