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Who is Idina Menzel? Strictly Come Dancing performance confirmed for Frozen star

For the first time this series there were two guest performers on Sunday night's Strictly Come Dancing.

Strictly’s highly anticipated Musicals Week lived up to its billing, proving to be an all singing all dancing spectacular.

It even brought the first 40 of the series as Craig Revel-Horwood was finally persuaded to get his 10 out for Karim & Amy’s Jive. 

At the other end of the leaderboard just a point separated Alex & Neil and Chris & Karen at the bottom and, as well as finding out the results during Sunday evening's show, there was also performances from Beverley Knight and Idina Menzel.

Beverley kicked things off with a performance of Memory from Cats before Idina stepped into the spotlight

Who is Idina Menzel?

Idina, 48, is without question a musical icon, having wowed in an array of Broadway shows, including Rent, where her role as Maureen earned her a Tony nomination in 1996 and, perhaps most famously, in Wicked, where she played the role of Elphaba, with many fans hailing her as the best actress to ever take the part.

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She returned to Broadway as Elizabeth Vaughan in the 2014 musical If/Then, which earned her a third Tony Award nomination.

Idina's voice is also VERY famous for being Elsa in Frozen, which of course means she is the singer of now legendary Disney classic Let it Go.

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