Cady Huffman

Cady Huffman
Huffman with then husband William Healy, December 2007
Born	Catherine Elizabeth Huffman (1965-02-02) February 2, 1965 (age 52) Santa Barbara, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1985–present
Spouse(s)	William Healy (1994-2011)

Catherine Elizabeth “Cady” Huffman (born February 2, 1965) is a Tony Award-winning American actress.

Huffman was born in Santa Barbara, California, to Lorayne, a pre-school assistant director turned realtor, and Clifford Huffman, an attorney. She is the younger sister of actor Linus Huffman and automotive writer John Pearley Huffman, whose work often appears in Car and Driver magazine and The New York Times. She attended public schools in Santa Barbara (skipping the fourth grade) and graduated from the local San Marcos High School in June 1982. Huffman started performing in Santa Barbara's very active local theater community well before her teenage years. She also studied ballet at The Goleta School of Ballet and performed numerous classical ballets with the school's company.

The Santa Barbara theater also produced such notable actors as Eric Stoltz, Anthony Edwards, Randolph Mantooth, Howard McGillin and Kathleen Wilhoite.

Huffman first came to Broadway as a replacement cast member in the hit musical La Cage aux Folles (1985), and was quickly cast in Bob Fosse's Big Deal, to be followed by a Tony-Award nomination for her performance in The Will Rogers Follies (1991). In 2001, she played the role of Ulla in the original cast of the Broadway musical The Producers, by Mel Brooks. Huffman received the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical for the role.