Frances Ruffelle
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- August 29, 1965
- Place of birth
- London, England, UK
Biography
Frances Ruffelle (born 29 August 1965) is an English musical theatre actress and singer. She won a Tony Award in 1987, and represented the United Kingdom in the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Lonely Symphony (We Will Be Free)", finishing 10th. The song became a UK Top 30 hit.
In 1984, Ruffelle starred as Dinah in the original West End production of Starlight Express. From 1985, she was the original Éponine in the first English-language productions of Les Misérables in the West End and on Broadway, winning the 1987 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. Other stage roles include Yonah in Children of Eden (1991), Roxie Hart in Chicago (2003–04, 2007), the title role in Piaf (2013), Bella in The A–Z of Mrs P (2014), and Queenie in The Wild Party. Her albums include Fragile (1994), Frances Ruffelle (1998), Showgirl (2004), Imperfectly Me (2010), and I Say Yeh-Yeh (2015).
Movies with Frances Ruffelle
- Les Misérables 2012 · ★ 7.3
- Secrets & Lies 1996 · ★ 7.6
- Locked Down 2021 · ★ 5.2
- Les Misérables: 25th Anniversary in Concert 2010 · ★ 8.3
- The Hiding Place 1975 · ★ 6.9
- Devil's Tower 2014 · ★ 3.5
- P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang 1982 · ★ 6.7
- Les Misérables: The History of the World's Greatest Story 2013 · ★ 7.7
- The Wildcats of St Trinian's 1980 · ★ 4.4
- Long Forgotten Fields 2017 · ★ 4.8
- Broadway's Lost Treasures II 2004 · ★ 8.2
- Breach 2026 · ★ 6.1
- How to be Human 2017
- Les Mis at 25: Matt Lucas Dreams the Dream 2010
- Marks 1982
- Les Misérables: In Concert at Hylands Park 1997