Louise Dearman was born on 13 March 1979 and is a British actress and singer, perhaps best known for playing Glinda and Elphaba in the West End production of the musical Wicked.
24 Facts About Louise Dearman
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Louise Dearman has a number of other professional stage and television credits, such as Eva Peron in Evita, Sarah Brown and Miss Adelaide in Guys and Dolls, and Daisy Hilton in Side Show.
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Louise Dearman released her solo albums, You and I, Here Comes the Sun and It's Time, in 2005,2012 and 2013 respectively.
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Louise Dearman first began dance lessons at the age of three, and started to consider a stage career after appearing as part of a children's choir in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the London Palladium when she was thirteen.
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Louise Dearman then went on to train at Laine Theatre Arts for three years from leaving school, where she won their Musical Theatre Award and Opera Award, and was a contemporary of fellow West End performer Kerry Ellis.
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Immediately after graduating from Laine in 1998, Louise Dearman joined the touring cast of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat as the Narrator.
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Louise Dearman has appeared in pantomime versions of Cinderella three times; as Cinderella in Stoke-On-Trent in 2007 and in Milton Keynes in 2009, and as the Fairy Godmother in Wimbledon in 2008.
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Louise Dearman played her final performance in the production on 10 December 2011 and was succeeded by Gina Beck.
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On 26 September 2010, Louise Dearman joined composer Scott Alan at his concert Simply the Music of Scott Alan in London's New Players Theatre.
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On 13 May 2012, Louise Dearman held a launch party for her new album Here Comes the Sun at Bush Hall in London.
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On 28 June 2012, Louise Dearman participated in a workshop for a new musical comedy version of JM Barrie's Peter Pan, playing the role of Tinker Bell.
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On 2 August 2012, it was revealed that Louise Dearman would make a comeback to Wicked, but this time in the role of Elphaba, replacing her former co-star Rachel Tucker.
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Louise Dearman starred alongside Gina Beck as Glinda, with Ben Freeman as Fiyero.
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On 2 August 2014, Louise Dearman appeared at The Proms in a semi-staged production of the Cole Porter classic Kiss Me, Kate as Lois Lane, accompanied by the John Wilson Orchestra.
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On 18 December 2014 Louise Dearman appeared in a concert for the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra alongside Lance Ellington.
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In 2015, it was announced that Louise Dearman would perform in a new show honouring Judy Garland.
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In November 2015, Louise Dearman collaborated with the John Wilson Orchestra in a special one-off UK tour celebrating the music of George Gershwin, and shortly after was announced as a guest vocalist for Josh Groban's UK sell-out tour in Manchester, Birmingham, London and Paris.
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In February 2016, it was announced that Louise Dearman would be playing Miss Adelaide in the UK tour of Guys and Dolls.
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On 17 July 2019, Louise Dearman was in Malta for the BBC Radio 2 concert Lights, Camera, Malta.
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Louise Dearman performed theme songs from blockbusters A Star Is Born, Frozen amongst several other popular soundtracks.
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Louise Dearman has appeared in The Cherries, a pilot for Carlton TV.
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Louise Dearman released her debut album You and I in 2005, with renditions of songs from well known musicals.
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On 7 May 2012, Louise Dearman released her new album named Here Comes the Sun.
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On 2 December 2013, shortly after leaving Wicked, Louise Dearman released her third studio album, It's Time.