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    Her parents are Stuart Mentzel, a pajama salesman, and Helene Goldberg, a therapist. She has a younger sister named Cara. Idina Menzel is Jewish and her grandparents emigrated from Russia.

  3. She's best known as Maureen in Rent, Elphaba in Wicked & the voice of Elsa in Frozen (2013). Her mother Helene Goldberg was a therapist & her father Stuart Mentzel was a pajama salesman. Her grandparents emigrated to the U.S. from Russia. She grew up in New Jersey & on Long Island.

    • May 30, 1971
  4. May 30, 1971 · Idina Menzel is a theater superstar with a unique voice and incredibly good looks. She was born in the family of Helene and Stuart Mentzel in Queens, NY. She was three when her parents welcomed another girl, her sister Cara Mentzel. Soon after that their family moved to Woodbury, where she grew up.

  5. Oct 13, 2022 · Idina Menzel’s mother Helene Mentzel had been married to Stuart Mentzel, but divorced him in 1986. Her maiden name was Helene Goldberg. She worked as a therapist and had two children – Cara Mentzel, and Idina Menzel.

  6. Following the split-up of her parents, Idina was who 15 then, began performing as a Bat Mitzvah and wedding songstress to make ends meet as well as to fund her university education. Eventually, she dropped the‘t’ in her surname, Mentzel, in order to make the pronunciation of her name easier.

  7. Jun 10, 2020 · Parents, Family, and Sibling. Idina was born in the Mentzel family to parents Stuart and Helene. Her father is a pajama salesman, and her mother is a therapist. At the age of three, Idina grew up in New Jersey and moved with her family to Syosset, New York. Idina did her schooling from J. Irving Baylis Elementary School in Plainview, New York.

  8. Menzel’s parents divorced when she was sixteen years old, and she sang at bar mitzvahs and weddings to earn extra income for herself and her mother, and continued that job throughout her studies at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.

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