- Joanna Riding
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birthname = Joanna Riding
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laurenceolivierawards = 1993 Best Actress in a Musical, "Carousel"
2003 Best Actress in a Musical, "My Fair Lady"|Joanna Riding, (born 9 November 1967) is an English
actress . For her work in West End musicals, she has won twoLaurence Olivier Award s, and has been nominated for two others.Biography
Riding was born in
Lancashire , England, growing up on a farm, where her father ran a successful cheese-making business.Lee-Potter, Lynda. [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-96101/What-new-My-Fair-Lady-really-thinks-Martine.html "What the new My Fair Lady really thinks of Martine",] "Daily Mail" (2002)] She received theatre training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School from 1985-1989. [Lewis, Katy. [http://www.bbc.co.uk/threecounties/content/articles/2004/09/20/blithe_joanna_riding_feature.shtml "Joanna's riding high!"] BBC interview, 20 September 2004]After leaving school, she worked at
Chichester Festival Theatre for a season, playing Anne Page in "The Merry Wives of Windsor " and Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz". She met her former husband, actor Peter O'Brien, at Chichester. She was next cast as a replacement Sally in the West End production of "Me and My Girl ".Cornforth, Paul. [http://www.rainbownetwork.com/UserPortal/Article/Detail.aspx?ID=9157&sid=54 "Joanna Riding",] "Theatre Interviews", rainbownetwork.com, 12 October 2000]In 1993-94, she starred as Julie in "Carousel" at the
Lyttelton Theatre , winning theOlivier Award . She starred as Sarah Brown in "Guys and Dolls " at theOlivier Theatre in 1996 and, with the National Theatre, Anne in "A Little Night Music ". She played Jane in "The Witches of Eastwick " at theTheatre Royal, Drury Lane (2000-01), and was Eliza Doolittle in "My Fair Lady ", also at Drury Lane, in 2002-03, winning her second Olivier Award. [Webb, Paul. [http://www1.playbill.com/news/article/70658.html "Joanna Riding Chats About Her New Role in London's My Fair Lady",] playbill.com, July 2002] She performed the role of Ruth in "Blithe Spirit" in 2004 on tour at the Milton Keynes Theatre and Theatre Royal,Bath , and at theSavoy Theatre in London.Senter, Al. [http://www.thestage.co.uk/features/feature.php/5982 "Spirited away - Joanna Riding",] "The Stage", 6 January 2005]Riding is scheduled to take over the role of Mrs. Wilkinson in "
Billy Elliot the Musical " in the London cast in December 2008. [Bamigboye, Baz. [http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1057934/Baz-Bamigboye-Take-That-musical-Kristin-Scott-Thomas-more.html? "on the 'Take That' musical, Kristin Scott Thomas and ("Billy Elliot the Musical"),] Sunday "Mail", 19 September 2008]Awards and nominations
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Olivier Award Best Actress in a Musical
*"Carousel" (1993) (winner)
*"My Fair Lady" (2003) (winner)
*"Guys and Dolls" (1997) (nomination)
*"The Witches of Eastwick" (2001) (nomination)References
External links
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0725951/ Internet Movie Database listing]
* [http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/olivier_awards/past_winners/?pageNo=1 Official London Theatre Olivier listing]
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