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Fox Broadcasting Company (Fox) and Paramount Television announced that
film, television and stage actress and singer Keke Palmer (True Jackson, VP, Masters of Sex) will be joining the cast of Grease: Live
as the sassy Pink Lady "Marty Maraschino." Palmer will star alongside
Julianne Hough (as "Sandy") and Vanessa Hudgens (as "Rizzo"). In
addition, Broadway writers Robert Cary (Anything But Love, Ira & Abby) and Jonathan Tolins (Buyer & Cellar, The Last Sunday in June)
will write the LIVE television adaptation airing on Sunday, Jan. 31,
2016 from 7:00-10:00 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed on Fox. Palmer began her
career with a breakout role in the film Akeelah and The Bee. She later went on to star as the title character in the hit cable sitcom True Jackson, VP,
for which she received four NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding
Performance in a Youth/Children's Program. Palmer most recently made
Broadway history as the first African-American and youngest actress to
star in Rodgers and Hammerstein's iconic 1957 musical, Cinderella. Other film credits include box office mega-hit Ice Age: Continental Drift, Joyful Noise, Brotherly Love and Imperial Dreams. Her television credits include A Trip to Bountiful,
for which she earned an NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding
Actress in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special; cable
miniseries Full Circle; made-for-TV movie CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story; and a six-episode arc on the second season of Masters of Sex. Palmer is set to star as "Zayday Williams" in FOX's comedy-horror series Scream Queens this fall.
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