Marissa Jaret Winokur

Marissa Jarey Winokur was born on February 2nd, 1973 as the daughter of Maxine and Michael Winokur in New York City. Her mother, Maxine was a teacher and her father, Michael was an architect.

Marissa was in the cheerleading squad and was also the captain of her high school soccer team at Fox Lane High School. She was Jewish. Later Winokur graduated from the integrated program after studying at The American Musical and Dramatic Academy.

Unfortunately, Winokur was diagnosed with cervical cancer during the early stages of her popular Broadway show “Hairspray”.

Because of the fear that she could be replaced, she kept this condition a secret, only revealing to the closest family members. Luckily, she was fully healed and continued in the show. Winokur married Judah Miller, brother of Murray Miller and a writer on Stacked, on 7th October 2006.

The couple mentioned that they were expecting their first child, in March 2008. Later they had Zev, a boy, as their first child, on July 22nd, 2008. Winokur is also the great-niece of S. J. Pereiman and Nathanel West, two famous American writers.

Marissa Winokur had already appeared on the revival of Grease in the ‘90s, but she was only fully brought into the limelight from her role as Tracy Turnblad on Broadway.

Even then, her acting career was not truly moving forward just from Broadway shows, but the role had helped her in difficult times. Later in 2003, Winokur received the Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical, Drama Desk Award, Theatre World Award, and Outer Critics Circle Award for her brilliant acting in the Broadway show Hairspray.

She has also co-starred in the TV-series Stacked and played in popular films such as Never Been Kissed, Teaching Mrs. Tingle, American Beauty, the Scary Movie, Beautiful Girl, Fever Pitch and Fugly. She also voiced one of the characters of Shrek the Halls.

She later returned to her previous role in Hairspray on 9th December 2008 until the closing on January 4th, 2009. She also hosted the reality competition series Dance Your Ass Off, later joining a talk show, The Talk with Julie Chen, Holly Robinson Peete, Sharon Osbourne, Leah Remini, and Sara Gilbert.

Playing the beloved role of Tracy Turnblad from Hairspray on Broadway, Marissa J Winokur has an enormous number of followings on the most popular social media sites such as Instagram and Twitter.

Available on Twitter as @MarissaJWinokur, she has 220 thousand followers and has tweeted 4600 times. Her twitter bio says that she refers herself as  “MOMMY FIRST, TONY WINNER SECOND”. Also available on Instagram as @marissajaretwinokur, she has 21.5 thosuand followers and has posted 832 times.

Marissa Winokur has had a long and a successful career, which is still venturing to reach newer heights. Her hard work and determination in acting has earned her a yearly salary of $360 thousand.

Her total net worth is currently under review but through rough estimation, it is reported that her current net worth is around $3 million.