1. Carolyn Maitland has one sister, who trained as a ballerina at the Royal Ballet School and runs her own dance school.
16 Facts About Carolyn Maitland
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Carolyn Maitland trained at Elmhurst School of Dance and Performing Arts.
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Carolyn Maitland started her career as an actor and dancer for Reach for the Moon for LWT and a backing dancer for the MOBO Awards in 2002 for ITV before working with the late Brian Rogers on Broadway Christmas Spectacular.
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Carolyn Maitland was given her first lead understudy on the tour of High School Musical 2 as Gabriella.
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Carolyn Maitland played opposite Marti Pellow from the '90s band Wet, Wet, Wet.
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In May 2014 Carolyn Maitland was to understudy Tamsin Carroll as Ellen Scott in the West End revival of Miss Saigon, produced by Cameron Mackintosh and directed by Laurence Connor.
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Carolyn Maitland was directed as Ellen by Claude-Michel Schonberg, Alain Boublil and Cameron Mackintosh three days before opening night when Miss Carroll became sick and couldn't perform.
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In 2015 Carolyn Maitland starred in her first lead as Kathy Selden in Singin' in the Rain at Kilworth House Theatre directed by Mitch Sebastian.
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Carolyn Maitland went on to star as Sally Bowles in Cabaret at ACT Aberdeen and the Daughter in The Memory Show at The Drayton Theatre.
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Groundhog Day premiered in London in 2016 at The Old Vic in London where Carolyn Maitland created the role of Joelle and understudied the part of Rita Hanson.
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In January 2017 Carolyn Maitland was cast to play alternate Alice and Mad Hatter in Wonderland: A New Alice.
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Carolyn Maitland pulled out before rehearsals due to disagreements with the producer and the production company Wonderland the Musical Ltd regarding her contract.
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In 2017 Carolyn Maitland took over the role as Molly in Ghost from Sarah Harding due to the subsequent pain from an injury she received on the third series of The Jump.
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In October 2017 Carolyn Maitland produced her first concert Songs Chosen By You for Live at Zedel.
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Carolyn Maitland joined the West End revival of Annie as Grace Farrell, which began at the Piccadilly Theatre in London before showing at the Ed Mirvish Theatre in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Carolyn Maitland continued playing Grace in the 2019 UK tour of Annie, opposite Anita Dobson, Lesley Joseph and Craig Revel-Horwood.