- Victor Hugo
Victor-Marie Hugo was a French poet, novelist, playwright, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights campaigner, and perhaps the most influential exponent of the Romantic movement in France. In France, Hugo's literary reputation rests on his poetic and dramatic output. Among many volumes of poetry, "Les Contemplations" and "La Légende des siècles" stand particularly high in critical esteem, and Hugo is sometimes identified as the greatest French poet. - Cameron Mackintosh
Sir Cameron Mackintosh (born 17 October, 1946) is a successful British theatrical producer. Born in Enfield, London to a Scottish father and a Maltese mother, Mackintosh was raised in his mother's Roman Catholic faith and educated at Prior Park College in Bath. His younger brother, Robert Mackintosh, also is a producer. After early productions such as "Anything Goes", "Side By Side By Sondheim", "The Card", … - Michael Ball
Michael Ball is a British actor and singer, best known for the song "Love Changes Everything" and musical theatre roles such as Marius in "Les Misérables", Alex in "Aspects of Love", and Caractacus Potts in "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang". - Lea Salonga
Lea Salonga-Chien (born Maria Ligaya Carmen Imutan Salonga on February 22, 1971 in Angeles City) is a Tony, Olivier, Drama Desk, and Theatre World award-winning Filipino singer and actress who is best known for her portrayal of Kim in the musical "Miss Saigon". In the field of musical theater, no other Filipino has achieved the same international recognition as Salonga. She has been the first to win various international awards for a single role. - Claude-Michel Schönberg
Claude-Michel Schönberg is a French record producer, actor, singer, popular songwriter, and musical theatre composer, best known for his collaborations with the librettist Alain Boublil. These include the musicals: *"La Révolution Française" (1973) *"Les Misérables" (1980) *"Miss Saigon" (1989) *"Martin Guerre" (1996) *"The Pirate Queen" (2006) Schönberg began his career as a record producer and a singer. - Trevor Nunn
Sir Trevor Nunn CBE (born 14 January, 1940) is an English theatre and film director. He has held both the posts of Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company and Director of the Royal National Theatre, following in the footsteps of Sir Peter Hall. He was knighted by the Queen in 2002. He was born in Ipswich, England and educated at Downing College, Cambridge, where he began his stage career. In 1968, he was appointed Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, … - Ruthie Henshall
Valentine Ruth Henshall (born March 7, 1967), known as Ruthie Henshall, is a British singer, dancer and actress. She was born in Bromley, London, England. Henshall's early ambition was to be a ballet dancer, but she lacked the necessary physique. At the age of 19, after studying at the Laine Theatre Arts drama school in Epsom, … - Colm Wilkinson
Colm Wilkinson(born June 5 1944 in Dublin) is an Irish musical theatre actor and singer, best known for playing the role of Jean Valjean in "Les Misérables". He was among the most frequent players of Valjean, originating the role in London and on Broadway. He appeared on several cast albums and a DVD, Les Miserables - The Dream Cast in Concert. Among the musical's more devoted fans, he is generally considered to be the definitive Valjean. - Herbert Kretzmer
Herbert Kretzmer is a South African-born newspaperman and lyricist, best known for writing the lyrics of the hit musical "Les Misérables". Kretzmer was born in Kroonstad, Orange Free State, South Africa. He moved to Europe after World War II, living in Paris for a time before settling in London in 1954. - John Caird
John Caird (September 22, 1948-) is a British stage director and writer of plays, musicals and operas. John Caird was born in Canada of British parents. His father was the renowned Oxford theologian and Principal of Mansfield College, G.B.Caird. He is Honorary Associate Director at the Royal Shakespeare Company where he has staged and directed more that 20 plays, both classic (Brecht, Shakespeare and Strindberg) as well as a great deal of contemporary work. - Kerry Ellis
Kerry Ellis (born May 6, 1979) is an English stage actress who is currently starring in the lead role of Elphaba in the West End production of the musical "Wicked" after taking over the role from Idina Menzel, for whom she originally served as standby. Among her previous notable roles are as Fantine in the West End production of "Les Miserables" and as Meat in the original London production of "We Will Rock You". - Hugh Panaro
Hugh Panaro, born February 19 1964 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is one of Broadway's leading tenors. He began performing at the age of 13. His pre-Broadway and regional roles include Mary Sunshine in "Chicago" and the lead in "Jesus Christ Superstar". He made his Broadway debut as Marius in "Les Misérables", a role he originated in the first U.S. national touring company. - Gérard Depardieu
Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu, CQ (born 27 December 1948,) is an Academy Award-nominated French actor. His most significant English-language productions include "Green Card" with Andie MacDowell and "1492: Conquest of Paradise". Depardieu was born in Châteauroux, Indre to Anne Jeanne Joséphe "Eliette" (née Marillier) and René Maxime Lionel Depardieu, a metal worker. He first married Elisabeth (née Guignot), with whom he had two children. - Bille August
Bille August (born November 9, 1948) is a Danish film and television director. Most of his projects have been in co-operation with Swedish production and with a mainly Swedish cast. He was partially educated in Sweden and also married to Swedish actress Pernilla August from 1991 to 1997. His film Pelle the Conqueror from 1987 won both the Palme D'or, Academy Award and Golden Globe. He is one of the very few directors to win the Palme D'or twice, … - Philip Quast
Philip Quast is an Australian actor perhaps best known for his role as Inspector Javert in Les Misérables - The Dream Cast in Concert at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Indeed, as this remains the only televised version of the musical, his is the only performance with which many fans will be familiar. Accordingly, he is very popular in fan circles. He started off his career in Australia in Play School. - Judy Kuhn
Judy Kuhn is an American actress and soprano. Kuhn was born in New York City on May 20, 1958. Her training as a classical soprano was at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, from which she graduated in 1981. She earned her first Broadway credit working as an assistant to the director of a short-lived musical, "Don't Step on My Olive Branch", in 1976. Her first onstage appearance on the Great White Way was in "The Mystery of Edwin Drood", … - Norm Lewis
Norm Lewis is an African-American Broadway actor currently enrolled with the "revival" of Les Miserables as Javert. He was enlisted until the short revival ends on September 1, 2007. He has been confirmed to play King Triton in the broadway production of The Little Mermaid beginning in late 2007, which is beginning a trial run in Denver in November. Since, Lewis has said that he will be leaving Les Miserables on April 22, take some time off, … - Terrence Mann
Terrence Mann (born Terrance Vaughan Mann on July 1, 1951 in Kentucky) is a prominent singer and actor who has dominated the Broadway stage for the past two decades. Terrence made his Broadway debut in 1982 in the Tony Award-winning show "Barnum" (music by renowned Broadway writer Cy Coleman) at the St. James Theatre. He played the supporting role of Chester Lyman. - Robert Hossein
Robert Hossein is an Iranian-French film actor, director and writer. He directed the 1982 adaption of "Les Misérables", and appeared in "Vice and Virtue", "Le Casse", "Les Uns et les Autres" and "Venus Beauty Institute". He is the son of Aminollah Hossein. - Christian Clavier
Christian Clavier is a French actor born May 6, 1952 in Paris. After his studies at "Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po") he started his acting career with the comedic theater troupe Splendid and participated in a number of burlesque films with the troupe, which had hits with films like "Les Bronzés font du ski" and "Le Père Noël est une ordure". His most notable success without the Splendid group, and by far his biggest hit to date, … - Jenny Galloway
Jenny Galloway is a British actress, best known for her stage career. She played Madame Thénardier in the London cast of "Les Misérables" in 1993-1994, reprising her role in "Les Miserables - The Dream Cast in Concert" at the Royal Albert Hall in 1995, alongside Alun Armstrong. More recently she was in the cast of the Kern and Hammerstein musical "Show Boat" at the Royal Albert Hall. - Richard Jordan
Richard Anson Jordan was a Golden Globe-winning Harvard-educated American stage, screen and film actor. He was a long-time member of the New York Shakespeare Festival, and appeared in many Off Broadway and Broadway plays. His films include "Logan's Run", "Old Boyfriends", "Les Misérables", "Raise the Titanic!", "The Friends of Eddie Coyle", "The Yakuza", "The Bunker", "Dune", "The Secret of My Success", … - Michael Maguire
Michael L. Maguire is an American actor, best known for his role as Enjolras in the Broadway production of the musical "Les Misérables". This role won him a Tony Award in 1987. it also won him a Drama Desk Award and a Theatre World Award. In 1995 he got to reprise the role in the 10th Anniversary concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London. - Frances Ruffelle
Frances Ruffelle is a British musical theatre actress and recording artist. Her mother is Dame Sylvia Young, the founder of the famous theatre school at which Frances trained and where she began performing at the age of seven. She is best known for originating the role of Eponine in the English language version of "Les Misérables" for which she won the Tony. She has also notably appeared in "Starlight Express", "Children of Eden" and "Chicago". - Sierra Boggess
Sierra Boggess is an American theater actress. She is set to originate the role of Ariel in the upcoming 2007 Broadway adaption of the 1989 film "The Little Mermaid". Her big break was creating the character of Christine Daae in Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera" in Las Vegas in June 2006. Before her current success on the stage, she began her career as an understudy for Cosette on the U.S. national tour of "Les Misérables". - Alice Ripley
Alice Ripley is an American actress and singer. Born one of eleven children in San Leandro, California, Ripley received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Kent State University. She made her Broadway debut in "The Who's Tommy" in 1993. Additional Broadway credits include "Sunset Boulevard", "King David", "James Joyce's The Dead", "The Rocky Horror Show", "Les Misérables", and a benefit concert performance of "Dreamgirls". - Robert Newton
Robert Newton was an English actor. He was born in Shaftesbury, in Dorset, England, and died in Los Angeles, California, USA, from a heart attack. Along with Errol Flynn, Newton was one of the most popular actors amongst the male juvenile audience of the 1940s and early 1950s, especially among British boys; he was cited as a role model by actor Oliver Reed and drummer Keith Moon. Reed played the role of Bill Sikes on film, a role previously played by Newton. - John Owen-Jones
John Owen-Jones is a British musical theatre actor, best known for his portrayals of "Jean Valjean" in Alain Boublil & Claude-Michel Schönberg's "Les Misérables" and of "The Phantom" in Andrew Lloyd-Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera". He is currently appearing as Jean Valjean in the West End production of "Les Misérables". - Alun Armstrong
Alun Armstrong is an English actor. Armstrong made his debut in the 1971 film "Get Carter", and has since worked regularly in British stage and television productions, often playing leading characters. Armstrong has also appeared in several films, although in this medium he has usually played supporting or minor rôles. Recently, he has appeared in the films "Sleepy Hollow", "The Mummy Returns" and "Van Helsing". - Celia Keenan-Bolger
Celia Keenan-Bolger is an American actress and singer. She most recently appeared in the limited engagement revival of the Broadway musical "Les Misérables" in the role of Eponine. Before that, she made her Broadway debut starring in William Finn’s new musical "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee", where she originated the role of Olive Ostrovsky, for which she earned a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. - Alexander Gemignani
Alexander Gemignani (July 3, 1979) is a Broadway performer and former UPS store employee. Alexander was raised in Tenafly, New Jersey and is a graduate of the University of Michigan's Musical Theater Department. He is the son of Broadway musical director Paul Gemignani. He appeared as John Hinckley in the Roundabout's 2004 Broadway mounting of Stephen Sondheim's "Assassins". - Roger Allam
Roger Allam is an English actor, best known for his stage career. He played Inspector Javert in the original London production of "Les Misérables". He has been nominated three times for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor, winning once. He has also been nominated for, and won, the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actor. He has also appeared in many radio dramas for the BBC. In 2001, he starred in BBC Radio 4's adaptation of "Les Misérables", … - Hans Matheson
Hans Matheson is a Scottish-born actor who made his feature film debut as Johnny Silver in Jez Butterworth's critically acclaimed directorial debut, "Mojo". Prior to "Mojo", Matheson appeared in various plays and television series. He followed his role in "Mojo" with "Stella Does Tricks", playing a male prostitute hooked on drugs. Then came the classic literary character Marius, in Bille August's film version of "Les Misérables". - Frank Rich
Frank Rich (born June 2, 1949 in Washington, D.C.) is a columnist for "The New York Times". His column focuses on American politics and popular culture. His column ran on the front page of the Sunday arts and leisure section from 2003 to 2005; it now appears in the expanded Sunday op-ed section. From 1980 to 1993, Rich was the "Times"' chief theater critic. - Alessandra Martines
Alessandra Martines is an Italian-French dancer and actress, best known for her portrayal of Princess Fantaghirò in the "Fantaghirò series" and her interpretations under the direction of her husband, the french director Claude Lelouch, in several movies ("Les Misérables", "And now... Ladies and Gentlemen"). Alessandra Martines was born in Rome. She has a daughter, called Stella. - Melissa Errico
Melissa Errico (born March 23, 1970) is an American actress and singer. Born in Manhattan, Errico moved to Manhasset on Long Island at an early age. As a child, she studied ballet and gymnastics but was sidelined by a knee injury. Her interest in theater was sparked when she appeared in a Girl Scouts musical production and was cemented by a summer spent at an arts camp. - Jean Carmet
Jean Carmet, born July 25, 1920 in Bourgueil, Indre-et-Loire, France, died April 20, 1994 in Sèvres, Hauts-de-Seine, was an actor. Jean Carmet began working on stage and then in film in the early 1940s becoming a very popular comedic actor in his native country. He is best known internationally for his role as a French colonist in the 1976 film, "La Victoire en Chantant" (Black and White in Color). - Rachel York
Rachel York (born Rachel Lemanski on August 7, 1971 in Orlando, Florida) is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her roles in "City of Angels", "The Scarlet Pimpernel", "Les Miserables", "Victor/Victoria", "Kiss Me, Kate", "Sly Fox", and "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels". Rachel also has many film and television credits, including her portrayal as Lucille Ball in the CBS biopic "Lucy". - Joanna Ampil
Joanna Ampil (born June 1, 1975 in Manila), is a musical theatre actress from the Philippines. Ampil has performed in several West End musicals, including Miss Saigon, and Jesus Christ Superstar. She is currently playing the role of Fantine in Les Miserables in London. - Elena Roger
Elena Roger is an Argentinian actress who is currently involved in the West End comedy play Boeing Boeing as the Alitalia air stewardess character, Gabriella, at The Comedy Theatre in Panton Street. She recently starred as Eva Perón in the West End revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Evita" at the Adelphi theatre. Among her theatre credits in her native Buenos Aires, the original productions of "Nine" directed by David Leveaux, …
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