Caroline Sheen

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Caroline Sheen
Born
Newport, Wales[1]
EducationCaerleon Comprehensive School
Alma materGuildford School of Acting
OccupationActress
Spouse
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(m. 2008)​
Children1

Caroline Sheen is a Welsh actress who has played leading roles on stage in the West End alongside TV and film appearances. She won a Helen Hayes award for playing the role of Mary Poppins on the National Tour of America.

Background

Born and raised in South Wales, Sheen is married to actor Michael Jibson. She is a cousin of Michael Sheen.[2] A member of the National Youth Theatre of Wales and Gwent Young People's Theatre, she was named as an Associate Artist of the Watermill Theatre in 2018. Sheen is also an Honorary Fellow of the University of South Wales.

Career

Sheen made her West End debut as Marty in

Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Other West End credits include Eponine in Les Misérables[4] at the Palace Theatre, Sandy in Grease at the Victoria Palace, and Truly Scrumptious in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang[5] at the London Palladium
Work at the National Theatre includes Philia in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum[6]', Susan Walker in Once in a Lifetime[7] Caroline played
9 to 5 at the Savoy Theatre. She left the role on 8 February 2020.[citation needed] During the 2020 pandemic, Sheen and her husband Michael Jibson played opposite each other as Guinevere and Arthur in an outdoor production of Camelot back at the Watermill Theatre

TV work includes

The Rook, and starred in the leading role of Carys in Pitching In for the BBC. In 2021 she appeared as DI Meredith Hughes in Silent Witness. In 2022 she appeared as Claire in series 4 of Ghosts.[8] In 2023, she played the recurring guest role of Beverly Munroe in the BBC soap opera Doctors,[9] as well as appearing in Sister Boniface Mysteries
.

Film work includes Les Miserables (2012), Nativity Rocks and Four Kids and It (2020).[citation needed]

Recordings

In February 2010 Sheen released her debut album Raise the Curtain, a selection of songs by leading contemporary musical theatre writers from Britain and America; featuring 5 previously unrecorded songs, including a cut song from The Witches of Eastwick; alongside songs from The Light in the Piazza, Just So, Grey Gardens, and Mary Poppins. Sheen can also be heard on the original cast recordings of Mamma Mia!, The Witches of Eastwick, Rosemary Ashe's album Serious Cabaret and A Spoonful of Stiles and Drewe.[citation needed] In 2016 Before/After was released, a recording of a new musical featuring Sheen and Hadley Fraser.[citation needed] In 2020 the

9 to 5: The Musical London cast album was released in which she features as Violet Newstead, the role she created in London.[citation needed
]

Other performances

Sheen was a guest soloist in the opening ceremony of the

Michael Ball and Friends at the Royal Opera House, An Evening with Jason Robert Brown, and Georgia Stitt and Friends. She appeared alongside fellow Mary Poppins actresses Lisa O'Hare and Scarlett Strallen in A Spoonful of Stiles and Drewe singing a specially devised version of "Practically Perfect".[10]

On 9 February 2020 she interviewed

Stephen Schwartz at the JW3 in London.[citation needed
]

References

  1. ^ Caroline Sheen profile
  2. ^ "Caroline Sheen lands Les Miserables film role after leaving West End role". Wales Online. Retrieved 2 April 2023.
  3. ^ a b c d [1] Archived 11 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ "londonlesmis.co.uk". Londonmusicalsonline.com. Retrieved 9 March 2012.
  5. ^ Lyn Gardner (24 September 2003). "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, London Palladium | Stage". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 March 2012.
  6. ^ "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum – Productions". Royal National Theatre. Archived from the original on 12 February 2012. Retrieved 9 March 2012.
  7. ^ "Once in a Lifetime – Productions". Royal National Theatre. Archived from the original on 12 February 2012. Retrieved 9 March 2012.
  8. ^ Ghosts - Series 4: 4. Gone Gone, retrieved 23 September 2022
  9. What to Watch. (Future plc
    ). Retrieved 27 April 2023.
  10. ^ [2] Archived 4 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine

External links

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