Veanne Cox (born January 19, 1963) is an Emmy^[1] and Tony-nominated^[2] American stage and screen actress and former ballet dancer.

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Cox was born in Norfolk, Virginia. She is a 1981 graduate of Manchester High School in Chesterfield, Virginia. She studied ballet at the Washington School of Ballet, acting at the Studio Theatre (Washington, D.C.) and voice at Catholic University of America.^[3]

Her Broadway debut was in the Marvin Hamlisch musical Smile in 1986 as Sandra-Kay Macaffee.^[4] She appeared in the Roundabout Theatre revival of Stephen Sondheim's Company in 1995 as "Amy", for which she received a Tony Award nomination for Featured Actress in a Musical.^[5] She appeared in The Public Theater (2003) and the Broadway productions of Caroline, or Change (2004) as Rose Stopnick Gellman.^[6]

Cox appeared in the made-for-television movie Cinderella (1997) as one of the stepsisters,^[7] and appeared in Erin Brockovich as Theresa Dallavale.^[8]

She has appeared in episodes of many television series, such as Seinfeld (playing Toby in the episode The Fire), Blue Bloods in 2016,^[9] and Odd Mom Out.^[10]

She starred in the Guthrie Theatre production of Private Lives as Amanda in 2007.^[11]

• Summer Stock — Goodspeed Opera House — 2023^[12]
• The Music Man — Kennedy Center — 2019
• An American in Paris — Palace Theatre — 2015
• La Cage aux Folles — Broadway revival — 2010
• The Beaux' Stratagem — The Shakespeare Theatre — 2006
• The Wooden Breeks — Lucille Lortel Theatre — 2006
• Caroline, or Change — Eugene O'Neill Theater – 2004
• House/Garden — Manhattan Theatre Club — 2002^[13]
• The Dinner Party - Music Box Theatre NYC - 2001
• The Altruists — Vineyard Theatre — 2000^[14]
• Company — Roundabout Theatre — 1995