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 Eurovision Song Contest 1994 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).
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Credited work
152 releases · 23 albums · active 1984–2024
- Performance · 169
- Other credits · 27
- Production · 1
Studios: CTS Studios · Power Station · Pop 'N' Roll Studios, Santa Monica · Lighthouse Recorders
Frequent collaborators
- Christopher Cross
- Etienne Daho
- Alain Boublil
- Ian Dury
- Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Various
- Michael Crawford
- Kim Wilde