Chenoweth played a recurring role as a political reporter in the fourth season of "The Good Wife" (2012). However, she soon left the show because of serious injuries suffered on the set, where she sustained a skull fracture, broken nose, spinal and rib injuries, and cracked teeth. She appeared in the 2012 season opener and returned in a short scene for another episode. In 2013 and 2014, she made two appearances as Brittany Gold on the TV series, "Kirstie". Chenoweth played Maleficent in the live-action Disney Channel original movie, "Descendants". The "Entertainment Weekly" reviewer said that "Chenoweth stole much of the show". It drew the largest cable TV movie audience of 2015 to that date. later that year, Chenoweth appeared in an episode of "I Get That a Lot", posing as a waitress, and co-hosted the "69th Tony Awards", for which she was nominated for another Emmy Award. Chenoweth played Velma Von Tussle in NBC's "Hairspray Live!" in 2016.