48 Facts About Charlotte Church

Charlotte Maria Church was born on Charlotte Maria Reed, 21 February 1986 and is a Welsh singer-songwriter, actress, and television presenter from Cardiff.

Charlotte Church hosted a Channel 4 chat show titled The Charlotte Church Show.

Charlotte Church released her first album in five years, titled Back to Scratch, on 25 October 2010.

In recent years, Charlotte Church has embraced political activism, supporting Jeremy Corbyn when he led the Labour party, climate activism, feminism, anti austerity movements and the Palestinian solidarity movement.

Charlotte Church's parents separated when she was two, and she was raised by her mother who brought her up as a Roman Catholic.

Charlotte Church has four siblings: two younger half-brothers, through her biological father, and two older step-siblings from her adoptive father's previous marriage.

Charlotte Church received a vocal scholarship to Howell's School Llandaff in Cardiff where she started in 1998, after leaving The Cathedral School, Llandaff.

Charlotte Church was then introduced to her first manager and negotiated a contract with Sony Music.

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.

The song's full-length video, featuring Charlotte Church, won acclaim at the Detroit Auto Show and introduced her to new fans.

In 2001, Charlotte Church added more pop, swing, and Broadway with her album Enchantment.

That year, Charlotte Church made her first film appearance in the 2001 Ron Howard film A Beautiful Mind.

In 2003 Charlotte Church teamed up with trance music producer Jurgen Vries to sing vocals on his track "The Opera Song ".

Charlotte Church was credited on the records as CMC as it was her first foray into pop music.

In 2005, Charlotte Church issued her first pop album Tissues and Issues.

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.

Charlotte Church has performed before Pope John Paul II, Queen Elizabeth II, King Charles III, and US President Bill Clinton.

Charlotte Church mentioned that she had been working with a vocal instructor to keep her voice in check.

Charlotte Church said that she was currently in the studio, resuming work on a new album but that she was loving her life as a mother and knew it was important to dedicate her attention for the foreseeable future to her young children.

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.

Charlotte Church stated that the album was of a different sound to previous ones, more mature with a "kooky" vibe.

On 4 August 2010, Charlotte Church made a new track, "Cold California", available to download from her website.

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".

Charlotte Church released her first EP ONE on 4 September 2012.

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.

Charlotte Church promoted One and Two in the US with her first North American performances in almost a decade.

Charlotte Church appeared in New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, and at the South by Southwest Festival.

Charlotte Church released the lead single from her third EP, "I Can Dream" via SoundCloud on 15 July 2013.

Charlotte Church released a music video for the lead single from the EP, "Little Movements" on YouTube on 15 March 2014.

Charlotte Church has made a number of cameo appearances on television.

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.

In 2008, Charlotte Church appeared briefly in a sketch in Katy Brand's Big Ass Show.

In December 2005, for The Paul O'Grady Show Christmas pantomime, The Wizard of Oz, Charlotte Church played Dorothy Gale.

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.

In 2014 Charlotte Church performed as Mrs Ogmore Pritchard in a BBC adaptation of Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas.

In 2022, Charlotte Church appeared as "Mushroom" on the third series of The Masked Singer and finished in second place.

Charlotte Church released an autobiography titled Voice of an Angel in October 2000, aged 14.

Charlotte Church released a second autobiography titled Keep Smiling in late 2007.

In 2019, Charlotte Church authored several opinion pieces for The Guardian.

Charlotte Church is a member of the media campaigning group Hacked Off.

Charlotte Church was 14 at the time and has since claimed that the interview conducted by Jasper Gerrard felt like a total stitch up that led to many death threats against her and her family.

In 2007, Charlotte Church made another appearance on a British young people's rich list with her then-boyfriend, Welsh rugby player Gavin Henson.

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.

Charlotte Church gave birth to their daughter Ruby in September 2007, and to their son Dexter in January 2009.

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.

In 2019, Charlotte Church founded The Awen Project, a charity, who's aim is to set up free to attend, democratic learning communities in natural settings.

Charlotte Church had originally planned to give birth under a tree in their garden, but as the weather changed they moved indoors.

Charlotte Church herself holds retreats there such as Song of the Soul and Witch.