39 Facts About Louise Gold

Louise Gold was born on 1956 and is an English puppeteer, actress and singer whose career has spanned more than four decades.

Louise Gold is best known for her work as a puppeteer on television and for roles in musical theatre in the West End.

Louise Gold began to appear in musical theatre in the mid-1970s.

Louise Gold was a puppeteer and voice actress for The Muppet Show, for four seasons from 1977, and later for Sesame Street, and she has performed voice and puppet work on various other Muppet films, albums and television specials.

Louise Gold was a founder of, and lead puppeteer for, the satirical television show Spitting Image from 1984 to 1986 and occasionally thereafter.

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Louise Gold has had other television, film and voice roles since then.

Louise Gold is known as an actress in musical theatre, having starred in numerous shows in the West End, beginning with Joe Papp's London production of The Pirates of Penzance in 1982.

Louise Gold was a regular performer in the Lost Musicals concert productions in London in the 1990s, and she regularly performs in her own cabaret act.

Louise Gold was born in London, to parents who were active with Unity Theatre in London.

Louise Gold's father was John Gold, a journalist, and her mother was an actress, Una Brandon-Jones.

Louise Gold trained at The Arts Educational Schools from age 11.

Louise Gold played in the musical Hair on tour in Britain in 1974.

In 1977, Louise Gold joined The Muppet Show, during the show's second season, where Jim Henson trained her as a puppeteer.

Louise Gold became the only British puppeteer regularly employed on the show.

Louise Gold played several characters during her four seasons with the show, the best-known of which was Annie Sue Pig.

Louise Gold sang on several of The Muppets' albums and was often paired vocally with Jerry Nelson.

Louise Gold was a puppeteer in the films The Great Muppet Caper and The Dark Crystal, and she appeared in various other Muppet series and specials.

From 1984 to 1986, and occasionally thereafter, Louise Gold was a lead puppeteer and voice on the satirical television show Spitting Image and was the lead singer on their first single, "Da Do Run Ron", a pastiche of The Crystals' "Da Doo Ron Ron", released in 1984.

Louise Gold was the first puppeteer hired for the show and "helped out with the Spitting Image pre-pilot, so she naturally became the 'consultant' for the hiring [and training] of the rest" of the puppeteers.

Louise Gold played several of the characters on Roland Rat The Series broadcasts in 1986 and 1988.

Louise Gold played several characters on Sesame Street in the early 1990s, on Mopatop's Shop in the early 2000s, and in The Muppet Christmas Carol and Muppet Treasure Island.

Louise Gold lent her voice to an Australian puppet television programme in 2006, Five Minutes More.

Louise Gold was featured as a guest puppeteer, portraying the character of Babs, on Transmission: Impossible with Ed and Oucho on BBC 2 television.

Louise Gold appeared in seven episodes broadcast from May to August 2009.

Louise Gold reprised her role as Annie Sue Pig in the 2014 film Muppets Most Wanted, operating a Muppet kangaroo.

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Louise Gold plays Funella Furchester, the mother in a family of "cheerfully incompetent monsters" who own a hotel for monsters.

Louise Gold next starred as Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes at Prince Edward Theatre.

One of these was the British premiere of Kurt Weill's One Touch of Venus at the Barbican Centre in 1992, in which Louise Gold sang the title character, which she reprised in another Lost Musicals production at the Lindbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House, in 2000.

Louise Gold was Gussie in Merrily We Roll Along at Haymarket Theatre, Leicester.

Louise Gold then played the title role in the stage musical adaptation of Calamity Jane at the Leicester Haymarket.

Louise Gold appeared in Our Country's Good in 1995 as Lieutenant Will Dawes and Liz Morden, together with her brother Max Louise Gold as Captain Arthur Phillip and John Wisehammer, at Edinburgh's Royal Lyceum Theatre.

In 1996, Louise Gold toured as Mrs Silvia Tebrick, the title character in the musical adaptation of Lady into Fox.

Louise Gold was back at the Fortune Theatre as Lizzie Curry in 110 in the Shade.

Louise Gold then starred as Dotty Otley in Noises Off at the Piccadilly Theatre.

Louise Gold had another long run as the tyrannical Miss Andrew in Mary Poppins at the Prince Edward Theatre.

Louise Gold portrayed Yente in the Menier Chocolate Factory revival of Fiddler on the Roof from November 2018 until March 2019, which then transferred to the Playhouse Theatre in the West End.

Louise Gold appeared in the 1985 film Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire, as the reporter, Miss Sullivan, and the 2000 film Topsy-Turvy, as Rosina Brandram, one of the original Gilbert and Sullivan performers, who plays Katisha in The Mikado during the course of the story.

Louise Gold has done a significant amount of radio and recording work and performs in her own cabaret show, which includes some puppeteering.

Louise Gold returned to television in 2011, guest-starring as a judge on a June 2011 episode of Coronation Street and as aunt Annie in an episode of the children's TV show Scoop, titled "Come in Digby, Your Time's Up".