- Rebecca Wheatley
Rebecca Wheatley (born 1965) is a British
actress andmusician .Wheatley grew up in
Teddington ,Middlesex , where she went to St Catherine's convent school, before gaining her BA inEnglish literature from theUniversity of Wales, Lampeter .She is best known as Amy Howard, the receptionist in the
BBC 's Casualty drama, a role which she played for four years until March 2001.Although Wheatley originally trained as a classical singer, she has become well-known for various different types of popular music. She has sung in many of the cabaret venues in the West End of
London , including The Café Royal,The Ritz and The Savoy. She has also sung at the Grand Opera House inBelfast in televised performances forBBC Northern Ireland, and at theRoyal Albert Hall for The TV Times " 'Christmas Carols with the Stars' " event.She played the character of Miss Sherman, the strict English teacher, in the West End musical, Fame and Julie Johnson in the West End production of .
She has recorded two Top 10 singles,
Everlasting Love andStay With Me Baby , as well as an album, "Time Stands Still".On Tuesday 4 December 2007 she was a guest on
The Paul O'Grady Show where she talked about her 12.5 stone weight loss after following theSlimming World plan, to coincide with the release of her weight-loss DVD.External links
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm{1|0923700}/ {2|Rebecca Wheatley}] at the Internet Movie Database
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