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Hinton Battle is an American actor, singer, choreographer, and dancer. He is best known for his roles in the Broadway musicals Dreamgirls, The Wiz, and A Chorus Line. He has also appeared in films such as The Muppets Take Manhattan, Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, and The Lion King. Battle was born in Neubrücke, Germany, to an African-American father and a German mother. He began his career as a dancer at the age of nine, and went on to perform in various Broadway musicals. He won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for his performance in The Wiz. Battle has also appeared in numerous television shows, including The Cosby Show, Law & Order, and The West Wing. He has also choreographed for television shows such as The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and The Jamie Foxx Show. Battle is currently married to actress and singer, Donna Marie Asbury. They have two children together. As of 2021, Hinton Battle's net worth is estimated to be roughly $2 million.

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Occupation Actor, singer, choreographer, dancer
Age 64 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 29 November 1959
Birthday 29 November
Birthplace Neubrücke, Hoppstädten-Weiersbach, West Germany
Date of death January 30, 2024
Died Place Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Nationality Germany

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Hinton Battle Net Worth

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2019

Hinton's long list of television credits include: Shine, his one-man show presented at the HBO Aspen Comedy Arts Festival; The Kennedy Center’s 25th Anniversary; These Old Broads, co-starring Shirley MacLaine, Joan Collins, Debbie Reynolds and Elizabeth Taylor; and ABC/Disney's Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story where Hinton served as a choreographer and co-star playing Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson.

As a choreographer, Hinton’s work has been seen on the musical episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "Once More, with Feeling", These Old Broads, Foreign Student (with Charles Dutton), The Golden Globe Awards, Dance in America; the sitcoms Fired Up, Sister Sister, The Trouble with Normal, and The Boys. Hinton has choreographed promos for Warner Brothers, commercials for Coca-Cola, Chicago The Millie and New York Top Appliances. He served as Associate Choreographer on the 65th and 66th Annual Academy Awards with Debbie Allen.

1980

In addition to his prolific dancing career, Battle briefly drifted into singing in the mid-1980s. His song "Think We're Gonna Make It" was featured on the soundtrack to the 1986 movie Playing for Keeps, and he released his lone solo album, Untapped, that same year.

1974

Battle was born in Neubrücke, Hoppstädten, West Germany, part of the Baumholder Army Military Community, and raised in Washington, D.C. and New York City. His mother was a homemaker and his father a U.S. army officer. Battle's talent became apparent at the age of nine. After three years of studying ballet at the Jones-Haywood School of Ballet, he received a scholarship to The School of American Ballet where he studied until the age of fifteen under George Balanchine. On October 21, 1974 the new musical The Wiz opened at the Morris A. Mechanic Theatre in Baltimore, Maryland and then moved to Broadway's Majestic Theatre with a new cast on January 5, 1975. This is where Hinton made his Broadway debut starring as the Scarecrow.

1959

Hinton Battle (born November 29, 1959) is an American actor, singer, dancer, and dance instructor. He has won three Tony Awards, all in the category of Featured Actor in a Musical. He was the first to portray the Scarecrow in the stage version of The Wiz (a role assumed by Michael Jackson in the 1978 film adaptation).

1900

Off-Broadway Hinton has served as co-director and choreographer for Evil Dead: The Musical. Having finished choreographing the movie musical Idlewild, he joined with Wynton Marsalis for The Buddy Bolden Story, a feature film about the untold story of the man who created jazz in America. He then directed the stage musical Respect, a musical journey of women from the 1900s – 2007. Hinton's most recent creation, a dance form called Swop that combines swing and hip-hop, was performed on the highly rated Dancing with the Stars in 2006. In 2014, Hinton starred in the off-Broadway production, Cindy: The Musical.