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Aunt PittypatSusan Jane Tanner

Theatre includes: creating the musical theatre roles of Jellylorum/ Griddlebone in Cats (New London), Mme Thénardier in Les Misérables (Barbican and Palace), Mme de Rols in Martin Guerre (Prince Edward) and leading roles in Hard Times (Haymarket).

Other musicals include: the title role in Calamity Jane (tour), Miss Pross in Tale of Two Cities, Miss Hannigan in Annie, Mrs Lovett in Sweeney Todd (Cheltenham), Grease, Sweet Charity, The Boy Friend, Gypsy and Irene.

RSC: Trevor Nunn’s All’s Well That Ends Well (also Broadway), Peter Pan and A Winter’s Tale; The Witch of Edmonton, Light Up for Life and Level with Us (The Pit); Mrs Peacham in The Beggar’s Opera, Athena in The Odyssey and Audrey in As You Like It (Stratford and London); Mrs Beaver in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Sadler’s Wells); and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Derek and Romeo and Juliet (on tour).

NT: Mother Courage. Also, Queen Charlotte in The Madness of King George and Mrs Malaprop in The Rivals (York Theatre Royal), Jacques in As You Like It and The Mysteries (Everyman, Liverpool), Mistress Quickly in The Merry Wives of Windsor (Regent’s Park Open Air), The Voysey Inheritance and High Places (Royal Exchange, Manchester), Top Girls (Sherman, Cardiff), Habeas Corpus (Swansea), The School for Wives (Yvonne Arnaud), Dracula, Adrian Mole, Cheeky Chappie (Queen’s, Hornchurch), Crimes of the Heart, Sweeney Todd and Harvey (all Theatre Royal, Cheltenham), Last Days of the Empire (Watermill, Newbury), The Millionairess starring Raquel Welch (tour) and one-woman show Feminine Singular (Contact, Manchester).

Film and television include: Inspector Morse, The Mayor of Casterbridge, The Parole Officer with Steve Coogan, Holby City, The Roughest Way, Looking After No. 1, The Secret Lives of Albert Walker, Aluminium Handshake and Cats (video).

Radio includes: Fo Rama.

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