Sarah Tullamore is an English-born actress, singer, dancer and voice-over artist.
Biography
Tullamore was born in
Carshalton, a suburb of the
London Borough of Sutton, England and grew up in
Banstead.
She began her vocal career as a child singer with the Coloma Girls' School Choir, one of the largest school choirs in Southern England. Choral activities included regular sell-out concerts at the
Fairfield Halls,
Croydon, international singing tours and regular recordings of the children's programmes ''Singing Together'' and ''Time and Tune'' for
BBC Radio.
After graduating with honours in
linguistic science, Tullamore lived in Tokyo, Japan, working in live and studio singing and voice-over work before moving to Paris, France in 1995.
Career
From 1995 to 1998 she sang with the Jazzberries, a female jazz vocal trio featuring
Peggy Connelly
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and Wendy Taylor. The trio performed at major clubs and festivals throughout France.
In 1999 she sang the title role in the musical ''Pocahontas'' at
Disneyland Resort Paris. In 2003 she participated in the original cast recording of ''Blanche Neige'' (''Snow White'') staged at the
Folies Bergère. In 2005 Tullamore recorded in English and French the singing and spoken voice of Alice for the
Disney show ''Le pays des merveilles'', and toured Japan for five weeks, and again in 2007, in a musical theatre extravaganza with the Broadway Musical Company.
Her one-woman musical ''Estelle Bright'' premiered in France at the
Avignon Festival in 2005. ''Estelle Bright'' then ran at theatres in Paris in 2006 and 2007. The show was nominated in the Best Musical category at the Musicals Festival in
Béziers
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, France in 2007. Tullamore and her director Frederic Baptiste originally wrote the musical in French and later translated it into English. In 2009 the English version of the show premiered at the Mill Studio,
Guildford
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, UK with additional performances in November 2009 at the
Playhouse in
Salisbury, Wiltshire.
Her voice-over work in Paris includes regular appearances on French radio stations such as Fun Radio,
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History
In March 198 ...
and
NRJ
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radio. She was the official female continuity announcer of the TV channel
Eurosport from 2005 to 2007. Her voice also features in major advertising spots, children's CDs and the TV series ''
Largo Winch''.
Tullamore toured France in the summer of 2009 as lead singer in the French National Lottery Summer show, a visual extravaganza on Europe's biggest mobile stage combining dance, circus acts and song. She had a featured role in the 2009 Alain Sachs production of ''La Vie Parisienne''.
She featured in the 2012–14 French production of the musical ''
Sister Act'' as Soeur Marie-Antoinette (the equivalent of Mary Martin of Tours in the English production) at the
Théâtre Mogador
Théâtre Mogador, founded in 1913 with design by Bertie Crewe, is a Parisian music hall theatre located at 25, rue de Mogador in the 9th district. It seats 1,800 people on three tiers.
In 1913 financier Sir Alfred Butt rented an area in Paris. ...
in Paris co-produced by
Whoopi Goldberg and
Stage Entertainment. She was also first cover for the roles of Mother Superior and Mary Lazarus.
In 2015 she featured in the roles of Dora Bailey and Miss Phoebe Dinsmore in the Kilworth House Theatre production of ''Singing in the Rain''.
In 2016 her one-woman musical show ''London – Paris – Roam !'' featured at the Paris Fringe theatre festival and the
Edinburgh Festival Fringe
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.
Tullamore sings with the jazz group Le Cinq'tet.
Film
Tullamore features as the English nurse in the 2008 French film ''
Les Femmes de l'ombre'' (Female Agents), directed by
Jean-Paul Salomé and starring
Sophie Marceau
Sophie Marceau (; born Sophie Danièle Sylvie Maupu, 17 November 1966) is a French actress. As a teenager, she achieved popularity with her debut films ''La Boum'' (1980) and ''La Boum 2'' (1982), receiving a César Award for Most Promising Act ...
.
References
External links
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Sarah Tullamore websiteSarah Tullamore videos
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English film actresses
English women singers
People from Banstead
People from Carshalton
Living people
Singers from Paris
Year of birth missing (living people)