1. Aoife Mulholland has starred as Roxie Hart in Chicago, at the Cambridge Theatre and for 18 months as Maria von Trapp in The Sound of Music at the London Palladium; and as Brooke Wyndham in Legally Blonde at the Savoy Theatre.
25 Facts About Aoife Mulholland
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Aoife Mulholland has appeared in concerts, films and several popular TV series.
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Aoife Mulholland admitted on HDYSAPLM that when she first started out she had to sell her car after moving to London, to be able to afford to continue in her chosen career, so determined was she to succeed in London's West End.
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Shortly after HDYSAPLM finished in December 2006 Aoife Mulholland was signed by agents Curtis Brown and promptly took on the part of Roxie Hart, a lead character in the West End musical Chicago.
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Aoife Mulholland left the cast of Chicago at the end of March 2007.
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Aoife Mulholland performed "Funny Honey" in duet with Denise van Outen.
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Aoife Mulholland continued to perform as the alternate until 20 August 2008.
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On Friday 24 August 2007 Aoife Mulholland performed at the BBC Radio 2 Gala for Andrew Lloyd Webber.
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Aoife Mulholland sang "All The Love I Have" from The Beautiful Game.
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On 29 November 2007 Aoife Mulholland sang jazz and swing numbers at the 100 Club in London fronting the Sorrentino Band.
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On 12 and 13 May 2008, Aoife Mulholland appeared at the Royal Albert Hall in Sir Tim Rice's concert revival of his hit musical Chess, with Josh Groban as Anatoly Sergievsky, Idina Menzel as Florence, Adam Pascal as Frederick Trumper, Kerry Ellis as Svetlana and Marti Pellow as the Arbiter.
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Aoife Mulholland has represented Andrew Lloyd Webber's production The Sound of Music twice at the free event West End Live held in 2007 and 2008.
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Between 3 and 5 July 2008, Mulholland starred in her own sold-out show, Sway with Aoife, at the Town Hall Theatre, Galway.
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On 18 September 2008 Aoife Mulholland starred with the RTE Orchestra and Jessie Buckley in Dublin at the Concert Hall, in a Radio Broadcast highlighting songs from the career of Lloyd Webber, who joined her on stage.
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Aoife Mulholland worked with the RTE children's television programme, Jam the Musical, as a mentor for a group of children rehearsing in a competition for a musical theatre performance.
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In November 2008 Aoife Mulholland reprised the role of Roxie Hart in Chicago until 12 July 2009, this time starring with both Justin Lee Collins and Jerry Springer.
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Aoife Mulholland was next cast as Brooke Wyndham, in the musical Legally Blonde in London's Savoy Theatre, co-starring with Sheridan Smith, Duncan James and Alex Gaumond.
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Aoife Mulholland performed the role from the shows opening until late 2010.
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Aoife Mulholland attended the National University of Ireland, Galway, University College Dublin, and the Central School of Speech and Drama.
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Aoife Mulholland comes from Salthill, a seaside resort in Galway, Ireland.
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Aoife Mulholland studied music at University College Dublin and did a post-graduate diploma in Business Studies at the National University of Ireland, Galway.
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Aoife Mulholland then went on to train at London's Central School of Speech and Drama.
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Aoife Mulholland graduated from CSSD with a master's degree in Acting and Musical Theatre.
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Aoife Mulholland married Jason Molins, a former captain of the Irish national cricket team, in 2009, in a ceremony in Spain.
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Aoife Mulholland has said her favourite character is Eliza Doolittle from My Fair Lady.