Nikki Blonsky
Nicole Margaret "Nikki" Blonsky (born November 9, 1988) is an American actress, singer and dancer. She is best known for her role as Tracy Turnblad in the 2007 film Hairspray and as Maggie Baker in the 2008 television movie Queen Sized. She is also known for her starring role in the ABC Family original series Huge.
Personal life
Blonsky was raised in Great Neck, New York, in Nassau County on Long Island. She is the daughter of Karen (née Smeja), a school aide of Czech and Irish descent, and Carl Blonsky, a municipal worker for the village water pollution control district. She began singing at age three and started taking vocal lessons at the age of eight. Blonsky was raised Catholic, although her father is Jewish.
Blonsky attended Great Neck North Middle School, and attended John L. Miller Great Neck North High School for one year. Then she switched to Village School, an alternative high school with only 50 students. After school each day, she would attend the after-school theater program at William A. Shine Great Neck South High School (even though she originally went to school at Great Neck North), where she participated in productions of Les Misérables, Sweeney Todd, Kiss Me, Kate and, in the title role, the opera Carmen. Village School students often participate in after school activities at either North or South, because these activities are limited at the Village School.
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ALBUMS
- Now That's What I Call Musicals released: 2012
- Songs for the Car released: 2009
- You Can't Stop the Beat! Hits From Your Favourite Musicals released: 2009
- Totally Chick Flicks released: 2009
- Disneymania 6 released: 2008
- Hairspray released: 2007
Now That's What I Call Musicals
Released 2012- We Will Rock You: We Will Rock You
- Mamma Mia: Dancing Queen
- Rocky Horror Picture Show: Time Warp
- Ghost: Unchained Melody
- Chicago: All That Jazz
- Grease: The Grease Mega-Mix
- Shrek: I'm a Believer
- Lion King: Circle of Life
- Aladdin: A Whole New World
- Wicked: Defying Gravity
- Billy Elliot: Electricity
- Moulin Rouge: Come What May
- Oliver: Consider Yourself
- Hairspray: You Can't Stop the Beat
- Dreamboats & Petticoats: Dreamboats & Petticoats
- Fame: Fame
- Mary Poppins: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
- Annie: Tomorrow
- High School Musical: Breaking Free
- Evita: Another Suitcase in Another Hall
Songs for the Car
Released 2009- Stuck In the Middle WIth You
- All Right Now
- All Star
- Hanging By A Moment
- MMMBop
- A Thousand Miles
- Everybody Wants TO Rule The World
- All Night Long (All Night)
- Come On Eileen
- Rockin' Robin
- Route 66
- Bend Me Shape Me
- Sweet Home Alabama
- Life Is A Rollercoaster
- You Get What You Give
- Picture Of You
- You Can't Stop The Beat
You Can't Stop the Beat! Hits From Your Favourite Musicals
Released 2009- Mamma Mia ("Mamma Mia!" 1999 original London cast)
- Good Morning Baltimore ("Hairspray" 2007 film cast)
- Fame ("Fame" 2009 film cast)
- Popular ("Wicked" 2003 original Broadway cast)
- Honey Honey ("Mamma Mia!" 1999 original London cast)
- Welcome to the 60s ("Hairspray" 2007 film cast)
- Defying Gravity ("Wicked" 2003 original Broadway cast)
- Sister Act ("Sister Act" 2009 London cast)
- Without Love ("Hairspray" 2007 film cast)
- Do-Re-Mi ("The Sound of Music" 2006 London Palladium cast)
- I'd Do Anything ("Oliver!" 2009 London revival cast)
- Somewhere Over the Rainbow ("Wizard of Oz")
- Start of Something ("Britannia High")
- Oom-Pah-Pah ("Oliver!" 2009 London revival cast)
- Electricity ("Billy Elliot" 2005 original London cast)
- Funkytown
- A Whole New World ("Aladdin")
Totally Chick Flicks
Released 2009- Dancing Queen (Mamma Mia)
- Fame (Fame)
- All Dressed in Love (Sex and the City)
- Disturbia (Confessions of a Shopaholic)
- Bennie and the Jets (27 Dresses)
- Out of Reach (Bridget Jones Diary)
- Broken (Time Travellers Wife)
- Friday I'm in Love (He's Just Not That Into You)
- Do You Love Me (Dirty Dancing)
- You Can't Stop the Beat (Hairspray)
- Jump (Love Actually)
- I'm Coming Out (Maid in Manhatten)
- Love Is All Around (Four Weddings and a Funeral)
- Wishin' and Hopin' (My Best Friend's Wedding)
- Switch (Hitch)
- Dirty Little Secret (John Tucker Must Die)
- She's a Lady (Miss Congeniality)
- A Thousand Miles (Legally Blonde)
- A Well Respected Man (Juno)
- You Do Something to Me (Truth About Cats and Dogs)
Disneymania 6
Released 2008- If I Didn't Have You
- That's How You Know
- Some Day My Prince Will Come
- Kiss the Girl
- Cruella De Vil
- Real Gone
- Can You Feel the Love Tonight
- He Lives in You
- You'll Be in My Heart
- When You Wish Upon a Star
- Reflection
- When I See an Elephant Fly
- Ever Ever After
- My Strongest Suit
- A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes
Hairspray
Released 2007- Good Morning Baltimore
- The Nicest Kids in Town
- It Takes Two
- (The Legend of) Miss Baltimore Crabs
- I Can Hear the Bells
- Ladies' Choice
- The New Girl in Town
- Welcome to the 60's
- Run and Tell That
- Big, Blonde and Beautiful
- Big, Blonde and Beautful (reprise)
- (You're) Timeless to Me
- I Know Where I've Been
- Without Love
- (It's) Hairspray
- You Can't Stop the Beat
- Come So Far (Got Go Far to Go)
- Cooties
- Mama, I'm a Big Girl Now
- Step On Out on the Corny Collins Show
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A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes
by: Nikki BlonskyA dream is a wish your heart makes
When you're fast asleep
In dreams you will loose your heartache
Whatever you wish for you keep
Have faith in your dreams and someday
Your rainbow will come smiling through
No matter how your heart is grieving
If you keep on believing
The dream that you wish will come true
A dream is a wish your heart makes
When you're feeling small
Alone in the night you whisper
Thinking no-one can hear you at all
You wake with the morning sunlight
To find fortune that is smiling on you
Don't let your heart be filled with sorrow
For all you know tomorrow
The dream that you wish will come true
A dream is a wish your heart makes [x2]
You wake with the morning sunlight
To find fortune that is smiling on you
Don't let your heart be filled with sorrow
For all you know tomorrow
The dream that you wish will come true
No matter how your heart is grieving
If you keep on believing