![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead of using traditional network casting calls, he spent three months on Broadway, where he found Ushkowitz. In casting Glee, series creator Ryan Murphy sought out actors who could identify with the rush of starring in theatrical roles. In 2009, Ushkowitz landed the role of Tina Cohen-Chang on Fox's musical comedy-drama series Glee. Ushkowitz understudied the roles of Ilse, Anna, Martha, and Thea in the Broadway musical Spring Awakening in 2008. Ushkowitz sang the American National Anthem at a New York Knicks game at Madison Square Garden when she was 13. Her Broadway musical debut was in the 1996 revival of The King and I. She next did a Toys R Us television commercial, and went on to do three Burger King and Hess toy truck commercials each, and at ages 3, 6 and 11 did three Jell-O commercials starring comedian Bill Cosby.Īt age 3, Ushkowitz began appearing on Sesame Street and other children's television shows. As a young child, she began her career in print advertisements, beginning with an ad for Playskool's Dress Me Up Ernie doll. She attended elementary school at the Parkway School in East Meadow, followed by Holy Trinity Diocesan High School, a Catholic school in Hicksville, Long Island. Her immediate adoptive family is Catholic, her adoptive paternal grandfather was Jewish. Her mother Judi was a secretary turned housewife, and her father Brad was in transportation-industry sales. Born in Seoul, South Korea, Ushkowitz was adopted at the age of three months and raised in East Meadow, New York. ![]()
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