Ellen Greene Set for YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS

According to EW.com, stage and screen star Ellen Greene is set to join te cast of CBS' The Young and the Restless, beginning January 7. Greene will star as Primrose, who acts as a person from Billy and Victoria Abbott's past.

Ellen Greene  has had a long and varied career as a singer, particularly in cabaret, as an actor and singer in numerous stage productions.  Greene began her career in the role of Jenny in The Three Penny Opera at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre in Lincoln Center, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award. She is perhaps best known for appearing as Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors, a role she reprised in the film version opposite Rick Moranis.

Her latest work includes the recurring role of Vivian Charles in the television series Pushing Daisies and the voice of Dolly Gopher in the animated Out of Jimmy's Head. Greene was also the voice of Goldie in the Don Bluth film, Rock-A-Doodle.

 

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