In both 20, Ushkowitz embarked on live concert tours with her Glee co-stars, with performances taking place in the United States, Canada, England, and Ireland.
Ushkowitz, Chris Colfer and Heather Morris during a performance of Beyonce's "Single Ladies" on the tour Glee Live! In Concert! in 2011 Rolling Stone journalist Erica Futterman wrote that her "Because You Loved Me" performance "removes some of the Lite FM softness embedded in the tune" and added that it was "really is great to see Tina get a song that suits her vocal abilities". The version charted at number 47 on the Australian Singles Chart, 38 on the Canadian Hot 100, 15 on the Irish Singles Chart, 35 on the UK Singles Chart, and 66 on the Billboard Hot 100. Kennedy, writing for the Los Angeles Times, wrote that the "poignant" rendition was one of his "feel-good, tearjerker moments". Raymund Flandez of The Wall Street Journal hailed the "True Colors" cover as showcasing Ushkowitz's "strong crystalline voice". Ushkowitz's solos have included the songs "True Colors" by Cyndi Lauper, "I Follow Rivers" by Lykke Li, "Because You Loved Me" by Celine Dion, " Gangnam Style" by PSY, "I Don't Know How to Love Him" from the musical Jesus Christ Superstar, "Hung Up" by Madonna, and "I Kissed a Girl" by Katy Perry. She was initially given a bit of information about Tina's back story, and believed that the character's stutter was real.
Instead of using traditional network casting calls, he spent three months on Broadway, where he found Ushkowitz. In casting Glee, series creator Ryan Murphy sought out actors who could identify with the rush of starring in theatrical roles. In 2009, Ushkowitz landed the role of Tina Cohen-Chang on Fox's musical comedy-drama series Glee. Ushkowitz understudied the roles of Ilse, Anna, Martha, and Thea in the Broadway musical Spring Awakening in 2008. Ushkowitz sang the American National Anthem at a New York Knicks game at Madison Square Garden when she was 13. Her Broadway musical debut was in the 1996 revival of The King and I. She next did a Toys R Us television commercial, and went on to do three Burger King and Hess toy truck commercials each, and at ages 3, 6 and 11 did three Jell-O commercials starring comedian Bill Cosby.Īt age 3, Ushkowitz began appearing on Sesame Street and other children's television shows. As a young child, she began her career in print advertisements, beginning with an ad for Playskool's Dress Me Up Ernie doll. She attended elementary school at the Parkway School in East Meadow, followed by Holy Trinity Diocesan High School, a Catholic school in Hicksville, Long Island. Her immediate adoptive family is Catholic, her adoptive paternal grandfather was Jewish. Her mother Judi was a secretary turned housewife, and her father Brad was in transportation-industry sales. Born in Seoul, South Korea, Ushkowitz was adopted at the age of three months and raised in East Meadow, New York.
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