Charlotte Maria Church was born on Charlotte Maria Reed, 21 February 1986 and is a Welsh singer-songwriter, actress, television presenter and political activist from Cardiff.
47 Facts About Charlotte Church
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Charlotte Church hosted a Channel 4 chat show titled The Charlotte Church Show.
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Charlotte Church released her first album in five years, titled Back to Scratch, on 25 October 2010.
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In recent years, Charlotte Church has become engaged in political activism which has included support for the Labour party across the UK, and Plaid Cymru in Senedd elections in Wales.
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Charlotte Church's parents separated when she was two, and she was raised by her mother who brought her up as a Roman Catholic.
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Charlotte Church has four siblings; two younger half-brothers through her biological father, Luke and Alexander, and two older adoptive half-siblings from her adoptive father's previous marriage, Elisha and Andrew.
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Charlotte Church received a vocal scholarship to Howell's School Llandaff in Cardiff where she started in 1998, after leaving The Cathedral School, Llandaff.
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Charlotte Church was then introduced to the Cardiff impresario Jonathan Shalit, who became her manager and negotiated a contract with Sony Music.
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Charlotte Church's first album, Voice of an Angel, was a collection of arias, sacred songs, and traditional pieces that sold millions worldwide and made her the youngest artist with a No 1 album on the British classical crossover charts.
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Charlotte Church's 1999 self-titled second album included operatic, religious and traditional tracks.
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The song's full-length video, featuring Charlotte Church, won acclaim at the Detroit Auto Show and introduced her to new fans.
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In 2001, Charlotte Church added more pop, swing, and Broadway with her album Enchantment.
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That year, Charlotte Church made her first film appearance in the 2001 Ron Howard film A Beautiful Mind.
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In 2003 Charlotte Church teamed up with trance music producer Jurgen Vries to sing vocals on his track "The Opera Song ".
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Charlotte Church was credited on the records as CMC as it was her first foray into pop music.
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In 2005, Charlotte Church issued her first pop album Tissues and Issues.
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In 2007, Charlotte Church became Patron of the charity The Topsy Foundation UK, helping to raise awareness and funds for its work to support rural communities in South Africa, empowering people infected with and affected by HIV and AIDS, through medical care, social support and skills development.
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Charlotte Church has performed before Pope John Paul II, Queen Elizabeth II, the Prince of Wales and Bill Clinton.
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Charlotte Church mentioned that she had been working with a vocal instructor to keep her voice in check, and while she had never put a focus on her body image, she would like to get back into pre-pregnancy shape before resuming work.
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Charlotte Church said that she was currently in the studio, resuming work on a new album and that her partner, Gavin Henson, had been strongly encouraging her to get back to work pursuing the career that she has greatly missed since settling down.
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Charlotte Church appeared on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross on 13 March 2010, where she confirmed that she had already begun writing and recording her sixth studio album.
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Charlotte Church stated that the album was of a different sound to previous ones, more mature with a "kooky" vibe.
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On 4 August 2010, Charlotte Church made a new track, "Cold California", available to download from her website.
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Back to Scratch featured the song "The Actors", which Charlotte Church performed on BBC One talent contest Over the Rainbow, and a cover of Joni Mitchell's "River".
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Charlotte Church released her first EP ONE on 4 September 2012.
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On 19 December 2012, Charlotte Church released the lead single from her second EP, "Glitterbombed" on The Line of Best Fit, an online music magazine.
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Charlotte Church promoted One and Two in the US with her first North American performances in almost a decade.
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Charlotte Church appeared in New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, and at the South by Southwest Festival.
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Charlotte Church released the lead single from her third EP, "I Can Dream" via Soundcloud on 15 July 2013.
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Charlotte Church released a music video for the lead single from the EP, "Little Movements" on YouTube on 15 March 2014.
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Charlotte Church has made a number of cameo appearances on television.
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Charlotte Church appeared in the CBS series Touched by an Angel, appeared in the 1999 Christmas special of Heartbeat, and in 2002,2003 and 2012 she appeared on episodes of Have I Got News for You.
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In December 2005, for The Paul O'Grady Show Christmas pantomime, The Wizard of Oz, Charlotte Church played Dorothy Gale.
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Charlotte Church won a British Comedy Award for "Best Female Comedy Newcomer" in 2006, and the 'Funniest TV Personality' award at the 2006 Loaded Magazine's 'LAFTA' awards.
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In 2014 Charlotte Church performed as Mrs Ogmore Pritchard in a BBC adaptation of Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas.
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In 2022, Charlotte Church appeared as "Mushroom" on the third series of The Masked Singer and finished in second place.
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Charlotte Church released an autobiography titled Voice of an Angel in October 2000, at 14.
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Charlotte Church released a second autobiography titled Keep Smiling in late 2007.
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In 2019, Charlotte Church wrote numerous opinion pieces for The Guardian.
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Charlotte Church is a member of media campaigning group Hacked Off.
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Charlotte Church apologised for the remarks one month later, as well as at the Leveson Inquiry in 2011, stating that her comments were taken out of context.
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In 2007, Charlotte Church made another appearance on a British young people's rich list with her then-boyfriend, Welsh rugby player Gavin Henson.
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Charlotte Church had claimed that 33 stories about her that appeared in the News of the World were the product of illegal hacking into her family's voicemail.
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Charlotte Church gave birth to their daughter Ruby in September 2007, and to their son Dexter in January 2009.
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Charlotte Church met musician, Back to Scratch collaborator, and former employee of James and Maria Charlotte Church, Jonathan Powell, at The Robin Hood pub in Canton, Cardiff.
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Charlotte Church had originally planned to give birth under a tree in their garden.
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In February 2022, Charlotte Church was the subject of Kate Garraway's Life Stories, revealing that she had made a decision to quit music in 2002, and when her mother caught her smoking at home at 16, she moved out and "cut the ties" setting up home independently, rebelling against the "facade of the celebrity culture" saying she wanted to experience normal teenage life.