- Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948) is a highly successful English composer of musical theatre, and also the elder brother of Julian Lloyd Webber. Lloyd Webber has enjoyed great popular success, with several musicals that have run for more than a decade both on Broadway and in the West End. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of variations, two film scores, and a Latin Requiem Mass. He has also gained a number of honours, … - Laurence Olivier
Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM (22 May 1907 - 11 July 1989) was an Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA and four-time Emmy winning English actor, director, and producer. Olivier's Academy acknowledgments are considerable—fourteen Oscar nominations, with two wins for Best Actor and Best Picture for the 1948 film "Hamlet", and two honorary awards including a statuette and certificate. He was also awarded five Emmy awards from the nine nominations he received. - 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", … - Connie Fisher
Connie Fisher (born June 17,1983) is an actress and singer, who won the BBC One talent contest, "How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?" Fisher was delighted to be named Maria: "I feel on top of the world, thanks very much. I won't let you down. Every night will be an opening night. Thanks for making my dreams come true." On 15 November 2006, she opened to good reviews in the part of Maria von Trapp in "The Sound of Music" in the West End, … - 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". - Bill Kenwright
Bill Kenwright CBE (born 4 September, 1945, in Liverpool, Merseyside, England) is an actor and producer. He attended Booker Avenue County Primary School, and then Liverpool Institute High School 1957 to 1964 and appeared in school productions (including Shylock in Merchant of Venice) on the stage in the Mount St. building (predecessor to LIPA. He was also treasurer of the Christian Union at school. As a young man, he became an actor. - 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, … - Denise van Outen
Denise van Outen (born Denise Outen on May 27, 1974) is an English television host and stage actress. Her most famous roles have been as a presenter for "The Big Breakfast" and as Roxie in the musical "Chicago" on both West End and Broadway. - Michael Crawford
Michael Crawford, OBE (born Michael Patrick Dumble-Smith, 19 January 1942 in Salisbury, Wiltshire), is an English actor and singer. He has won critical acclaim and numerous awards during his career, which includes radio, television and stage (including appearing on stage in the West End in London, and on Broadway in New York). Although he most often appears on stage, in musicals such as "Phantom of the Opera" and "Barnum", … - Ivor Novello
David Ivor Davies (January 15, 1893 - March 6, 1951), better known as Ivor Novello, was a Welsh composer, singer and actor who became one of the most popular British entertainers of the early 20th century. - Lee Hall
Lee Hall (born 1966) is an English playwright and screenplay writer. Hall's most commercially successful work is "Billy Elliot", the story of a young boy in the north of England who, in the face of opposition from his family and community, aspires to be and ultimately becomes a ballet dancer. Initially a film (1999) directed by Stephen Daldry for which Hall wrote the screenplay, and for which he received an Oscar nomination, … - Willy Russell
William Martin Russell (born 23 August 1947 in Whiston, Merseyside) is a British playwright, author, lyricist and composer. - Brian Friel
Brian Friel (born 9 January 1929) is a playwright and director from Northern Ireland. Born in Omagh, County Tyrone, he received his college education at St. Columb's College in Derry and, briefly, the seminary at St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, as well as in Belfast. He taught at various schools in and around County Londonderry from 1950 to 1960. - Maria Friedman
Maria Friedman (born Switzerland, 1960) is a musical theatre actress who has worked on both the Broadway and West End stages as well as television. - Georgia Brown
Georgia Brown (October 21, 1933 - July 5, 1992) was a British singer and actress. Born Lillian Claire Laizer Getel Klot in the East End of London to Mark and Anne Kirschenbaum Klot, Jewish emigrants to the UK, she was dispatched to Wales during the Blitz to escape the bombings in London. A lover of jazz, she selected her professional name from the 1925 tune "Sweet Georgia Brown" by Ben Bernie, Maceo Pinkard and Kenneth Casey. - Jonathan Kent
Jonathan Kent (born 1946, South Africa) is an English theatre director and opera director. He is most well known as one of the director/producer partners of London's Almeida Theatre between 1990 to 2002. After an upbringing in South Africa, where he went to school at Diocesan College, he came to London in the 1970s and trained as an actor at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Working under Giles Havergal and Phillip Prowse at the Glasgow Citizens Theatre, … - Summer Strallen
Summer Strallen is a British actress who has performed various roles on stage and screen. She is currently performing inWest End production of "The Drowsy Chaperone" which opened on June 14, 2007. She will play the role of Janet van de Graaff originally created by Sutton Foster in the original production on Broadway. Summer is the sister of fellow actress Scarlett Strallen who is currently playing Mary Poppins in the west end and the niece of Bonnie Langford. - Darius Danesh
Darius Danesh (born 19 August 1980 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a songwriter, platinum recording artist and acclaimed West End stage actor, well-known from the British TV hit shows "Popstars", and "Pop Idol", the latter being the model from which "American Idol" was born. His first, self-penned single, "Colourblind", entered the UK singles chart at number one, … - Laura Michelle Kelly
Laura Michelle Kelly (born 1981) is an English actress and singer who achieved critical acclaim in the role of Mary Poppins in the musical of the same name. Her extensive West End musical credits include "Beauty and the Beast", "Whistle Down The Wind" as Swallow (2000), "Les Miserables" as Eponine at The Palace Theatre (2001), "Mamma Mia!" as Sophie at Prince Edward Theatre (2002), "My Fair Lady" as Eliza at The Theatre Royal, … - Vivien Leigh
Vivien Leigh, Lady Olivier (November 5 1913 - July 8 1967) was an English actress. She won two Academy Awards for playing "southern belles": Scarlett O'Hara in "Gone with the Wind" (1939) and Blanche DuBois in "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951), a role she had also played in London's West End. She was a prolific stage performer, frequently in collaboration with her husband, Laurence Olivier, who directed her in several of her roles. - Bob Martin
Bob Martin is a comedian/actor/writer from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He has been in many TV shows and has written many TV shows. He also provides the voice of Cuddles the comfort doll on an Canadian show called Puppets Who Kill aired on the Comedy Network. He most recently starred in the Broadway success "The Drowsy Chaperone" as the Man in Chair. He also collaborated with Don McKellar on the book. - Janet McTeer
Janet McTeer (born May 8, 1961) is an award-winning British actress from Newcastle upon Tyne, England. After graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts Janet McTeer began her successful theatrical career with the Royal Exchange Theatre. Her television work includes the BBC production of Nigel Nicolson's book "Portrait of a Marriage" in which she played Vita Sackville-West and the popular ITV series "The Governor" written by Lynda La Plante. - Adrian Noble
Adrian Keith Noble (born 19 July 1950) was the Artistic Director and Chief Exectutive of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1990 to 2003. After he graduated from the Chichester High School he studied at the university of Bristol. He began his professional career as a director at the London Drama Centre. In 1976 he moved on to the Bristol Old Vic and working at the same time for the TV. From 1980 till 1981 he worked at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, … - Paul Rogers
Paul Rogers, born 22 March 1917 in Plympton, Devon is a distinguished, Tony Award-winning English actor. Rogers trained at the Michael Chekhov Theatre Studio at Dartington Hall and made his film debut in 1932. He has appeared in many West End and Broadway productions and won the Tony for Best Actor for "The Homecoming" in 1967. - Arlene Phillips
Arlene Phillips OBE (born 1944 in Manchester, Lancashire, England) is a British choreographer working in many fields of dance. Phillips trained as a dancer at the Muriel Tweedy School of Dance. She is the creator of Hot Gossip (1975), a group which changed the style of dance on British television. Responsible for the original choreography of many West End and Broadway shows, numerous music videos, commercials and TV shows. - Alan Bates
Sir Alan Arthur Bates CBE (February 17, 1934 – December 27, 2003) was an English actor. - Amanda Holden
Amanda Louise Holden (born 16 February 1971 in Bishop's Waltham, Hampshire) is an English actress. She made her television debut as an unsuccessful contestant on the long-running ITV series "Blind Date". Amanda trained at the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. - 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, … - Richard Johnson
Richard Johnson (born July 30, 1927 in Upminster) is an English actor, writer and producer, who starred in several British films of the 1960s and has also had a distinguished stage career. Born in Upminster, England, Johnson trained at RADA and made his first professional appearances on stage with Sir John Gielgud's company. During the Second World War he served in the navy, and made his film debut in 1951. - Jeremy Sams
Jeremy Sams (born January 12, 1957 in London, England) is a British director, writer, translator, orchestrator, musical director, film composer, and lyricist. Sams studied Music, French, and German at Magdalene College, Cambridge and piano at Guildhall School of Music. Early on he worked as a freelance pianist and coach, giving frequent recitals and tours and doing stints as a repetiteur at opera houses in Brussels and Ankara. - Craig Revel Horwood
Craig Revel Horwood (born 1967) is an Australian dancer, choreographer, and theatre director in the United Kingdom. Born in Ballarat, Australia, Horwood started his career as a dancer in Melbourne, then moved to London to take advantage of the greater opportunities available there. Horwood's West End credits include "Spend Spend Spend" and "My One and Only", both of which garnered him Laurence Olivier Award nominations for Best Choreography. - Ray Cooney
Ray Cooney (born 1932) is an English playwright and actor, sometimes known as "the master of farce". His biggest success, "Run For Your Wife", lasted nine years in London's West End and is its longest-running comedy. He has had 17 of his plays performed there. - Tovah Feldshuh
Tovah Feldshuh (born December 27 1952) is an award-winning American actress, singer, and playwright. Born Terry Sue Feldshuh to a Jewish family in New York City, she was raised in an affluent community in Westchester County and graduated from Sarah Lawrence College. She started her career under British director Michael Langham at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, where she was awarded the McKnight Fellowship in Acting. - 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. - Douglas Hodge
Douglas Hodge (born 1960 in Plymouth, Devon, England, UK) is a British actor. Some of his TV appearances include leading roles in "Bliss", "Middlemarch, "The Uninvited", "The Scold's Bridle", "Shockers: Dance", "The Law", "The Russian Bride", "Capital City" and "Red Cap". Hodge has also achieved great success on stage as a performer recently in the work of playwright Harold Pinter (e.g., … - Dave Clark
Dave Clark (born December 15, 1942 in Tottenham, London) is an English musician. He was the drummer and leader of the successful 1960s group, The Dave Clark Five. Clark was also responsible for the West End musical, "Time". - Kiki Dee
Kiki Dee (born Pauline Matthews on 6 March 1947, in Little Horton, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England) is a highly successful singer/songwriter, with a career that has lasted over 40 years. Her most famous song was a duet with Elton John, entitled "Don't Go Breaking My Heart", which was released in 1976 and went to Number 1. (She later performed another duet with Elton John for his "Duets" album, … - Gavin Lee
Gavin Lee (born October 15 1972) is a British actor currently starring as Bert in "Mary Poppins" at the New Amsterdam Theatre on Broadway, which began previews in October 2006 and officially opened on November 16, 2006. He was chosen for this role because of his critically-acclaimed performance as Bert in the West End production of "Mary Poppins" at Prince Edward Theatre. - Lucie Arnaz
Lucie Désirée Arnaz is an American actress. She is the daughter of actors Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, and is the sister of actor Desi Arnaz, Jr. "When asked why her name is not spelled like her mother's Lucie replied:" "My Dad chose the name. My mother wanted to name me Susan (don't ask why) but, as soon as she nodded off after delivery, he wrote L-U-C-I-E on the birth certificate. - Sheila Hancock
Sheila Hancock OBE (born 22 February, 1933) is an English actress and comedian. Born on the Isle of Wight, the daugher of a Publican, she attended Dartford County Grammar School and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She then joined Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop, and has since appeared in over 40 films, mostly television releases. Big-screen roles include "Carry On Cleo" (1964) and "Three Men and a Little Lady".
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