Ruthie Henshall began her professional stage career in 1986, before making her West End debut in Cats in 1987.
29 Facts About Ruthie Henshall
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Ruthie Henshall made her Broadway debut in 1999 as Velma Kelly in Chicago and returned to the Broadway production to play Roxie Hart in 2010.
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Ruthie Henshall starred as Mrs Wilkinson for two years in the West End production of Billy Elliot the Musical.
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Ruthie Henshall returned to television acting in 2021 by appearing as Miranda Evans in the BBC soap opera Doctors.
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Ruthie Henshall was born on 7 March 1967 in Orpington, London.
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Ruthie Henshall's father, David, was a journalist, later the editor of the East Anglian Daily Times, a Suffolk morning newspaper.
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Ruthie Henshall once dated Prince Edward for a number of years, before becoming engaged to actor John Gordon Sinclair.
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Ruthie Henshall met actor and singer Tim Howar, her male co-star lead in the West End production of Peggy Sue Got Married.
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In 1988, at the age of 21, Ruthie Henshall was cast in Miss Saigon as one of the bargirls, showing at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
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Ruthie Henshall then went on to originate the role of Aphra in Children of Eden at the Prince Edward Theatre.
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In 1992, at the age of 25, Ruthie Henshall was cast as Fantine in Les Miserables.
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Ruthie Henshall's first starring role came in the 1993 trans-Atlantic transfer of the Broadway production Crazy for You which opened at the Prince Edward Theatre.
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Ruthie Henshall's performance earned her the first of five Olivier Award nominations.
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In 1995, Ruthie Henshall starred in She Loves Me, winning the Olivier as Best Actress in a Musical.
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In 1997, Ruthie Henshall originated the role of Roxie Hart in the West End transfer of the Broadway revival of Chicago.
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Ruthie Henshall was cast in the title role of the stage musical adaptation of the Francis Ford Coppola film Peggy Sue Got Married, which opened in London in August 2001 to mixed reviews.
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Ruthie Henshall succeeded the role of Marian Halcombe from Maria Friedman in Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Woman in White, from July 2005 until February 2006.
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Ruthie Henshall was cast in the title role in Marguerite, a new musical from the pens of Michel Legrand, Herbert Kretzmer, Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg.
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In 2008, Ruthie Henshall replaced Natalia Bestemianova as a judge on the ITV1 show Dancing on Ice alongside Robin Cousins, Karen Barber, Nicky Slater and Jason Gardiner.
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Ruthie Henshall performed two evening concerts with Kim Criswell entitled From Broadway to Hollywood at London's Cadogan Hall in the summer of 2009.
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Ruthie Henshall returned to the role of Roxie in Chicago at the Cambridge Theatre, London, on 14 December 2009 and completed her run on 24 April 2010.
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Ruthie Henshall stated in an interview that she felt more comfortable in the part the second time around, being in her forties.
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Ruthie Henshall has stated that, "Anyone who plays the role of Roxie should be in their forties, as they have lived and learned".
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Ruthie Henshall has recently played Roxie in the Broadway company of Chicago.
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In March 2011, Ruthie Henshall took the role of Elvira in the classic play Blithe Spirit in the West End, after playing the role in several regional theatre engagements.
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Ruthie Henshall took a purely acting role as billionaire Stephanie Gaunt in the CBBC series Wizards vs Aliens in 2012.
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In 2020, it was confirmed that Ruthie Henshall would be participating in the twentieth series of I'm a Celebrity.
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In 2022, Ruthie Henshall starred in the revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's musical Passion at the Hope Mill Theatre in Manchester, playing Fosca.
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Ruthie Henshall has been nominated five times for the UK's most prestigious theatre award, the Laurence Olivier Award, winning once.