Christiane Noll

Christiane Noll, born October 5, 1968, in New York City, is an American actress and singer whose Broadway career has spanned from 1991 to 2025. Raised in Leonia, New Jersey, where she attended Leonia High School, Noll is the daughter of the late Ron Noll, a conductor and Emmy Award-winning music supervisor for CBS, and soprano Sara-Ann Noll. She earned her degree from Carnegie Mellon University, where she later established the Charlotte Black Memorial Fund as an endowed award. In 2006, she married actor Jamie LaVerdiere, who appeared in the Broadway production of The Pirate Queen in 2007. The couple welcomed a daughter in February 2009.

Noll's Broadway career includes a number of originating roles and high-profile revivals. In 1997, following out-of-town tryouts, she created the role of Emma Carew in Frank Wildhorn's Jekyll & Hyde on Broadway. She subsequently appeared in the 1999 revue It Ain't Nothin' but the Blues. In 2010, Noll played Mother in the Broadway revival of Ragtime at the Neil Simon Theatre, a performance that earned her a Tony Award nomination for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical. That same production had previously brought her a 2010 Helen Hayes Award for Best Actress in a Musical when she played the role at the Kennedy Center in 2009. She appeared on Broadway in Urinetown, Chaplin, and Elf, and received a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical in 2013. Noll joined the Broadway company of Dear Evan Hansen in October 2019, playing Cynthia Murphy, a role she had originated with the show's first national touring company. She resumed the role in December 2021 following the COVID-19 Broadway hiatus, with her run concluding on July 17, 2022, before she returned briefly in September 2022 to cover the role when Ann Sanders fell ill.

Beyond Broadway, Noll has accumulated an extensive record of regional, off-Broadway, and touring work. Her national tour credits include Sandy in Grease, Ellen in Miss Saigon, Mallory/Avril in City of Angels, and Nellie in a tour of South Pacific that traveled to Australia and Thailand. She received an Ovation Award for playing Hope Cladwell in the national tour of Urinetown in 2004 and a Connecticut Critics Circle Award in 2004 for her portrayal of Mabel in Mack & Mabel. Among her other stage credits are Kathie in The Student Prince at Paper Mill Playhouse in 2000, Marianne in City Center Encores! The New Moon in 2003, Lizzie in Lizzie Borden at Goodspeed Opera House in 2001, and Laura in A Fine & Private Place at the York Theater in 2006. Noll created the role of Vanna Vane in The Mambo Kings musical in 2005 and Jane Smart in the American premiere of The Witches of Eastwick at Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia in 2007. That same year she originated the role of Elizabeth Lavenza in the off-Broadway rock musical Frankenstein - A New Musical at 37 Arts. She performed alongside Plácido Domingo as Valencienne in the Washington National Opera's production of The Merry Widow at the Kennedy Center in 2005.

Noll appeared as Sister Margaretta in the 2013 NBC broadcast of The Sound of Music Live! She has performed as a guest soloist with numerous orchestras, including the National Symphony with Marvin Hamlisch, the Cincinnati Pops, the Philadelphia Pops with Peter Nero, the San Francisco Symphony, the Detroit Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Jerusalem Symphony, and the Sinfonica Brasileira in Rio de Janeiro. She made her Carnegie Hall debut alongside Skitch Henderson in his final New York Pops performance, as part of a program billed as Three Broadway Divas. Noll has also been a featured member of the Broadway Inspirational Voices Gospel Choir.

Her recording work includes four solo albums: Christiane Noll - A Broadway Love Story (1998), The Ira Gershwin Album (2001), Live at the Westbank Café (2003), and Christiane Noll - My Personal Property (2008). She provided the singing voice of Anna in the Warner Bros. animated feature The King and I in 1999. Additional recordings include the original cast album of Jekyll & Hyde (1997), The King and I (1999, Sony Classics), Little by Little (1999), The New Moon (2003), and concept albums for Dracula (2006) and The New Picasso (2008), among others.