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Ann Harada is one of the most popular and richest Actor who was born on February 3, 1964 in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States. Harada was part of the first Broadway production of Seussical in the year 2000. She also participated in the first workshop of the show and all the earlier Broadway productions of the production. In her own words about her experience, she said “It was such a roller-coaster ride — everything that could go wrong went wrong. You’d just show up to work every day and go, ‘I wonder what’s going to happen today. ‘…There was way too much drama for one show to take, and it didn’t deserve that kind of drama because it’s really a great little show. . . . I loved it, and I still love it. . . I just keep thinking about what it was like doing that first workshop and us all just being so blown away by it and being so excited.”

Harada is featured in the Wes Anderson-directed commercials for AT&T, which began airing in September 2007.

On April 24, 2007, Harada joined the Broadway company of Les Misérables playing Madame Thénardier; she replaced the British actress Jenny Galloway. Harada left Les Misérables on October 30, 2007, replaced by Galloway.

The year 1998 was the time Harada performed in the National Asian America Theatre Company’s highly acclaimed All-Asian show of William Finn’s Falsettoland. Peter Marks of The New York Times wrote about her performance in the play “Holding to the Ground” as an “full-throttle success”. In 1998 Harada played a minor role on The Todd Solondz film Happiness as one of the coworkers of Jane Adams’ character.

Harada obtained the Equity Card in 1987 when she was part of Maury Yeston’s and Larry Gelbart’s 1,2,3,4,5 at the Manhattan Theatre Club. Harada is a part in the Vineyard Theatre’s Community of Artists and appeared in four musicals that were created by the Vineyard Theatre, which included Hit the Lights!.

Harada was involved in Avenue Q since the first performance of the show at the York Theatre in 2000. Lyricist Amanda Green had recommended Harada to Avenue Q writers Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx. She opened Avenue Q at the Vineyard Theatre in New York in March 2003 and moved with the show to Broadway that July. She took a break for maternity leave in late 2004, returning in early 2005. Her son is named Elvis. Harada left the Broadway company of Avenue Q on 26 February 2006. Her role was taken over by Ann Sanders. In June 2006, she opened the London production of Avenue Q at the Noël Coward Theatre in the West End. She played her last performance on 18 November 2006; the role was taken over by Naoko Mori. She is the only actress who played the role of Christmas Eve in both the Broadway and West End productions of Avenue Q.