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News "Beautiful Girl" — with Hairspray's Winokur — Debuts in October "Beautiful Girl," the new TV movie with recent Hairspray star Marissa Jaret Winokur, will debut on the ABC Family Channel next month.

The made-for-TV film starring Tony winner Winokur will debut on the ABC Family channel at 8 PM on Oct. 19. Winokur stars as Becca, a young woman who proves that true beauty comes from within. The film also stars Fran Drescher — of "The Nanny" fame — as Becca's mother, who tries to persuade her plump daughter not to enter the local Miss Squirrel beauty pageant. Becca, undeterred, enters the pageant. "Beautiful Girl" also features Mark Conseulos as Adam, Becca's fiance. Marissa Jaret Winokur won the 2003 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her performance as Tracy Turnblad — like Becca, another young woman with something to prove — in Hairspray. She also appeared on Broadway in the hit revival of Grease! as well as the L.A. Reprise production of Hair. Winokur portrayed Janine in the Oscar winning film “American Beauty" and has also been seen in “Teaching Mrs. Tingle,” “Never Been Kissed,” “Scary Movie,” “Dharma & Greg,” “Moesha,” “Just Shoot Me,” “Boston Public,” “The Ellen Show,” “Felicity,” “Nikki,” “Steve Harvey,” “Get Real” and “Curb: Your Enthusiasm.”

For more information about "Beautiful Girl," visit http://abcfamily.go.com/movies/index.html.

 
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