Cora Vander Broek is an American actress. She was nominated for a

Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play The Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play is an honor presented at the Tony Awards, a ceremony established in 1947 as the Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, to actresses for quality supporting roles in a Broadway theatre, ...

in 2020 for her Broadway-debut performance as Jules in ''Linda Vista'' by

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. She has appeared on television in ''

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'', '' Chicago Fire'', and '' Law & Order: SVU''.Vander Broek Nomination ''Chicago Sun Times''
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Life and career

Cora F. Vander Broek was born in

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, to Diane (Vander Stoep) and Thomas Vander Broek (1951-2006). She has a sister, Renee, and two brothers, Caleb and Michael. Her parents worked for Mission Aviation Fellowship and she spent her early years living with her parents in Indonesia and

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, before they returned to Iowa. She graduated with a BA in Theatre from Northwestern College in 2000. After college, she moved to

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and studied at The School at Steppenwolf (

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). Select Chicago theatre credits include:

;

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; TimeLine Theatre
Raven theatre
Select regional theatre credits include: Actors Theatre at Louisville; Milwaukee Repertory Theatre;

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Montana Shakespeare in the Parks
Cora is a

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nominee and has been named an “Actor to Watch” by the Chicago Tribune. Vander Broek made her Broadway debut as “Jules” in the World Premiere of Pulitzer and Tony Award winner

’ new play LINDA VISTA for which she received a 2020 Tony Nomination for “Actress in a Featured Role" as well as an Ovation Award nomination. She originated the role for Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago and went on to reprise the role at the

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in Los Angeles and finally at the

Hayes Theater The Hayes Theater (formerly the Little Theatre, New York Times Hall, Winthrop Ames Theatre, and Helen Hayes Theatre) is a Broadway theater at 240 West 44th Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City, New York, U.S. ...

on Broadway. She currently lives in Los Angeles where she also writes and produces.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Vander Broek, Cora Living people Actresses from Iowa American stage actresses People from Orange City, Iowa Northwestern College (Iowa) alumni 21st-century American women Year of birth missing (living people)