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Kristin Chenoweth to Star in Lifetime’s 12 Men of Christmas

Kristin Chenoweth and Josh Hopkinsin 12 Men of Christmas
(© Lifetime)
Kristin Chenoweth and Josh Hopkins
in 12 Men of Christmas
(© Lifetime)

Emmy Award winner and Tony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth will star in the Lifetime movie 12 Men of Christmas, to debut on Saturday, December 5.

She will play E.J. Baxter, a New York City publicist who ends up moving to Montana, where she convinces some local men to pose for a charity calendar, and finds love in the process. The film co-stars Josh Hopkins, as well as stage actors Erin Dilly and Anna Chlumsky.

Chenoweth won the Tony Award for You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown and received a Tony nomination for Wicked. She is appearing Off-Broadway in Love, Loss, and What I Wore and will return to Broadway next year in Promises, Promises. Chenoweth won the 2009 Emmy Award for her work in the now-canceled ABC series Pushing Daisies, and played April Rhodes earlier this season on FOX’s Glee, to which she will return in 2010.