Frances Ruffelle was born on 29 August 1965 and is an English musical theatre actress and singer.
19 Facts About Frances Ruffelle
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Frances Ruffelle won a Tony Award in 1987, and represented the United Kingdom in the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Lonely Symphony ", finishing 10th.
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In 1984, Ruffelle starred as Dinah in the original West End production of Starlight Express.
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Frances Ruffelle's albums include Fragile, Frances Ruffelle, Showgirl, Imperfectly Me, and I Say Yeh-Yeh.
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Frances Ruffelle won multiple awards for her role.
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Frances Ruffelle returned to the role she originated in 1997 in the West End of London.
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Frances Ruffelle has starred as the female lead Roxie Hart in Chicago, as well as appearing in Lucky Stiff.
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Frances Ruffelle workshopped Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard and Whistle Down the Wind.
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Frances Ruffelle played the title role in Mathilde at the Edinburgh festival in 2008.
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Frances Ruffelle appeared as series regular Dawn Daniel-Spears in Sky's Dream Team, and series regular Kitty in Headless, for which she composed the music.
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Frances Ruffelle has starred in The Bill, Strangers, The Equaliser and The Hard Word.
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In 1994, Frances Ruffelle was chosen to represent the United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest.
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Frances Ruffelle sang all eight songs at the pre-selection, and British televoters chose "Lonely Symphony" to represent the UK, by televoting.
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In 2015, Frances Ruffelle played the role of Naomi Green in the ITV sitcom Birds of a Feather.
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Ruffelle's second album, Frances Ruffelle, came out in 1998, on the small Dress Circle label.
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Frances Ruffelle collaborated with Sam Bonner in the group, paTala, making an album called Purify, featuring "a fusion of traditional Sanskrit chants with unique arrangements of contemporary Western beats".
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Frances Ruffelle was born in Redbridge district of Ilford in London, England, UK.
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Frances Ruffelle's father is a phone company engineer and manager.
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Frances Ruffelle's mother is Sylvia Young, the founder of the prestigious theatre school at which she trained.