Collette Cooper is a British singer/songwriter and actor from Manchester and lives in London.

Career

Collette Cooper is a singer/songwriter currently working on her debut album, ''City of Sin'', and has completed several music videos, Big Fat Liar and Bonkers. Collette performs in London and has performed at several fashion, charity and awards shows including

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One For the Boys karaoke benefit in collaboration with GQ on 25 September 2014 and

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at the

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on 4 October 2014 in support of

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. Collette is also an actor and has worked in theatre and film with the likes of Jane Campion, Michael Winterbottom and Samantha Morton. She plays Magdalen in the feature film Set the Thames on Fire by

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- a singer - along with

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and

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and performs two of her own tracks. She does work on

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’s Breakfast Show and has rerecorded the novelty song Selfie with

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for BBC Radio.

Personal life

Collette is an avid netball player and played with the England girls' netball team against the Radio1 Male DJs for a BBC comedy Commonwealth Games sketch in July 2014. Collette cycled to Paris from London to raise money for cancer.

Discography

City of Sin (Due out in 2015)

Music videos

*Big Fat Liar *Bonkers

Filmography

* An Angel at My Table (1990) *Gold: The World's Play (TV Movie) (1991) *Gold: The Merchants of Venus (TV Movie) (1991) *Gold: The Dynamiters (TV Movie) (1991) *Gold: Frenchie's Gold (TV Movie) (1991) *Gold: A Fistful of Gold (TV Movie) (1991) *Playing the Field (TV Series) (1998-2000) * 24 Hour Party People (2002) * Coronation Street (TV Series) (2002) *Nice Guy Eddie (TV Series) (2002) * Doctors (TV Series) (2002) *

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(2003) - credited as Colette Cooper * The Courtroom (TV Series) (2004) *Bipolar (Short) (2006) *Murder in Mind (2009) * The Unloved (TV Movie) (2009) *Miss Mia Meows (Short) (2012) *Flim: The Movie (2014) -
Screened at the 2014 Raindance Festival in London
' *Room 55 (Short) (2014) - ''Completed'' *

Set the Thames on Fire ''Set the Thames on Fire'' is a 2015 British science fiction fantasy comedy-drama film directed by Ben Charles Edwards in his directorial debut, based on characters created by Al Joshua. The film stars Michael Winder and Max Bennett, alongside ...

(2015) - ''Post Production''

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cooper, Collette Living people British actresses Year of birth missing (living people) Musicians from London Musicians from Manchester Actresses from London Actresses from Manchester