Sophia Elsie Kiely (born 2000) is an English
Olivier Award
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-winning
child actress
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who played the titular role in ''
Matilda the Musical
''Roald Dahl's Matilda'', simply known as ''Matilda'' or ''Matilda the Musical'', is a stage musical with music and lyrics by Tim Minchin and a book by Dennis Kelly, based on the 1988 novel ''Matilda'' by Roald Dahl. The musical's narrative c ...
''.
Kiely shared the role with
Cleo Demetriou
Cleopatra "Cleo" Demetriou (; el, Κλεοπάτρα Δημητρίου; born 23 April 2001) is a Cyprus-born Olivier Award-winning child actress most known for playing the main role in ''Matilda the Musical'' in London's West End. She is also ...
,
Kerry Ingram
Kerry Danielle Ingram (born 26 May 1999) is an English actress, known for her roles as Shireen Baratheon in the HBO series ''Game of Thrones'' and Rebecca 'Becky' Sidebottom in the Netflix series ''Free Rein''.
Career
Before being cast in ''M ...
, and
Eleanor Worthington Cox
Eleanor Winifred Worthington Cox (born 21 June 2001) is an English actress from Merseyside best known for portraying Matilda Wormwood in '' Matilda the Musical'' for which 10-year-old Eleanor won a 2012 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress ...
.
Career
Kiely played Matilda at the
Cambridge Theatre
The Cambridge Theatre is a West End theatre, on a corner site in Earlham Street facing Seven Dials, in the London Borough of Camden, built in 1929–30 for Bertie Meyer on an "irregular triangular site".
Design and construction
It was des ...
in the
West End debut of ''Matilda the Musical''. After rehearsing the show since August, she made her debut on 27 October 2011. In April 2012 Sophia won an
Olivier Award
The Laurence Olivier Awards, or simply the Olivier Awards, are presented annually by the Society of London Theatre to recognise excellence in professional theatre in London at an annual ceremony in the capital. The awards were originally known as ...
for
Best Actress in a Musical along with her co-stars.
She made a special appearance as Matilda for West End Live in
Trafalgar Square
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, performing "Naughty".
Theatre credits
Awards
References
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Living people
Laurence Olivier Award winners
2000 births
English stage actresses
English child actresses
21st-century English actresses