Tony Award winner Alice Ripley celebrates her birthday December 14.
Ripley was part of the original cast of The Who’s Tommy on Broadway and played the original Betty Schaefer in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard, starring Glenn Close. She won a Tony for her moving portrayal of Diana in Broadway’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Next to Normal, and was nominated again for playing one half of the iconic Hilton twins in Side Show. She was last seen on Broadway in American Psycho.
Flip through photos of her stage career below:
Alice Ripley and Alan Campbell in the 1994 Broadway musical Sunset Boulevard.
Alice Ripley and Alan Campbell in the 1994 Broadway musical Sunset Boulevard.
Alice Ripley, Alan Campbell, Glenn Close, George Hearn and Vincent Tumeo during the Broadway opening night curtain call for Sunset Boulevard, November 17, 1994
Emily Skinner and Alice Ripley in the 1997 Broadway musical Side Show.
Emily Skinner, Alice Ripley and Hugh Panaro in the 1997 Broadway musical Side Show
Emily Skinner and Alice Ripley in the 1997 Broadway musical Side Show
Emily Skinner and Alice Ripley in the 1997 Broadway musical Side Show
Emily Skinner and Alice Ripley in the 1997 Broadway musical Side Show
Alice Ripley and cast in the Broadway musical Les Misérables, 1998.
Fred Inkley and Alice Ripley in the Broadway musical Les Misérables, 1998.
Alice Ripley in the Broadway musical Les Misérables, 1998.
Blair Brown, Alice Ripley, John Kelly, Emily Skinner and Dashiell Eaves in the 1999 Playwrights Horizons production of James Joyce's The Dead
Joan Marcus
Alice Ripley and Jarrod Emick in the 2000 Broadway production of The Rocky Horror Show
Alice Ripley in the 2000 Broadway production of The Rocky Horror Show
Alice Ripley and Tom Hewitt in the 2000 Broadway production of The Rocky Horror Show.
Carol Rosegg
Alice Ripley in the 2000 Broadway production of The Rocky Horror Show
Alice Ripley in the 2000 Broadway production of The Rocky Horror Show
Alice Ripley in her dressing room backstage at the Broadway musical The Rocky Horror Show, January 2001
Alice Ripley in the 2002 Kennedy Center production of Company
LJ Benet, Aleks Pevec, Anna Schnaitter and Alice Ripley in the 2008 Los Angeles production of The Who's Tommy.
Alice Ripley, LJ Benet and Tom Schmid in the 2008 Los Angeles production of The Who's Tommy
J. Robert Spencer and Alice Ripley in the Broadway production Next To Normal
Alice Ripley, Aaron Tveit and J. Robert Spencer in the 2009 Broadway production of Next To Normal
Alice Ripley in the 2009 Broadway production of Next To Normal
Aaron Tveit and Alice Ripley in the 2009 Broadway production of Next To Normal
Alice Ripley holding her Tony Award on June 7, 2009
Alce Ripley received her Sardi's portrait on September 24, 2009.
Alice Ripley in the 2011 MCC Theater production of Wild Animals You Should Know.
Alice Ripley and Keaton Whittaker in the 2013 Seattle production of Carrie
Keaton Whittaker and Alice Ripley in the 2013 Seattle production of Carrie
Alice Ripley backstage at A Christmas Memory
Benjamin Walker, Jennifer Damiano and Alice Ripley in American Psycho
Jeremy Daniel
Alice Ripley
Alice Ripley in Sunset Boulevard
Alice Ripley and William Michals in Sunset Boulevard
Nicholas Rodriguez and Alice Ripley in Sunset Boulevard
Paul Lyden Photography
William Michals, Alice Ripley, and Nicholas Rodriguez in Sunset Boulevard
Alice Ripley
Jazelle Artistry
Liz Flemming, Christina Sajous, and Alice Ripley
Robert Folwer and Alice Ripley
