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'' and the original British production of '' Heathers: The Musical.'' In 2015 Fletcher published a book called: ''All I Know Now: Wonderings and Reflections on Growing Up Gracefully'', which was a Number 1 bestseller in the UK. She has published three novels and two children's books. Fletcher is a two-time

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nominee and a three-time winner of the

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Life and career

Personal Life

Fletcher was born and grew up in

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borough of Harrow, the daughter of Debbie and Bob Fletcher. Her older brother,

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, is lead vocalist and guitarist of the band

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. As a child, Fletcher played small roles on television and appeared in musical theatre in London's West End in ''Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'', ''Mary Poppins'' and ''Les Miserables''. In 2011, she started a

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channel called ''ItsWayPastMyBedTime'', later retitled ''Carrie Hope Fletcher'', which features music and

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s. Fletcher left school at age 16, and has no formal training in musical theatre.

Theatre

Fletcher made her West End debut as Young Éponine in ''

'' at the age of nine in 2001. In 2002, she was part of the original cast of '' Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (musical)'' in the role of Jemima Potts, and in 2004 featured as Jane Banks in ''

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''. Fletcher replaced

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as Éponine in ''Les Misérables'' at the Queen's Theatre, London in June 2013. She is the only British actress to have played young Éponine, older Éponine and Fantine in the production. On 23 February 2014, Fletcher was presented the

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"Best Takeover in a Role" award for her performance as Éponine. In November 2014, Fletcher took a hiatus from her role in ''Les Misérables'' to join the cast of Jeff Wayne's ''War of the Worlds'' national arena tour in which she played the role of Beth, alongside Jason Donovan,

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. She next returned to ''Les Misérables'', playing Éponine for the musical's 30th anniversary gala performance on 8 October 2015. Fletcher played her final performance on 13 February 2016, at which time she was the longest-running Éponine in the London production's 30-year history. In 2017, she played the role of

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on the UK tour of ''

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''. The production was produced by

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for United Theatrical and Music & Lyrics in association with Festival Theatre, Edinburgh. In December 2017, she performed in the musical ''The Christmasaurus''. Based on her brother Tom Fletcher’s novel of the same name. It was performed at The Hammersmith Apollo. In 2018, Fletcher played Veronica in the Original West End Production of '' Heathers: The Musical'' . The show is an adaptation of the movie of the same name. First of all, it was performed at

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. Moving into the West End it was performed at the Theatre Royal Haymarket . Also she reprised her role as Beth in the 40th anniversary tour of Jeff Wayne's ''War of the Worlds''. In 2019, she returned to ''

'' as

at the Gielgud Theatre, in a fully staged concert adaptation of the musical. Fletcher was announced to be playing

in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s retelling in February 2020. Prior to the announcement, she workshopped ''

'' at The Other Palace Theatre in 2019. It opened in August 2021. Fletcher won the WHATSONSTAGE Award for Best actress in a musical. The production closed on 12 June 2022, 8 months early. Fletcher and other cast members who were not present at 1 May’s matinee were not informed of the closure until after the public announcement. After the closure of Cinderella, Fletcher appeared in two concert versions of musicals: ''

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'' as Sukie, and ''Treason the Musical'' as Martha Percy. In October 2022, she portrayed Grusha in Brecht’s ''

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'' at the

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. This was her first professional play. During the Christmas season, Fletcher starred in her pantomime debut as Carabosse in Sleeping Beauty. This was performed at the

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Writing

In April 2015, Fletcher released her first book, ''All I Know Now: Wonderings and Reflections on Growing Up Gracefully'', based on her blog of the same name. The non-fiction book focuses on stages of Fletcher's life as a teenager and passes on life lessons and advice through highlighting her own mistakes and struggles as she grew up. Her book was a number one Sunday Times bestseller and remained in the Top 10 list for seven weeks.

Music

Fletcher has produced two singles, "Running Through Rivers" and "The Way We Were". She performed to benefit the band Sheytoons at the St. James Theatre, as well as

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on his 2012 Road to Find Out tour. In 2012, she performed the official 2012 Summer Olympics mascots song with her brother, Tom. Fletcher is featured in

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’s 2013 album '' Epigrams and Interludes'' on the songs covering " Poison" and " This Kiss". Fletcher can also be seen in The Vamps' music video for their cover of

's "That Girl". In 2014, Fletcher had featured in Daniel Koek's album ''High'' in the song "Remember Me". Koek was a fellow cast member of Fletcher's in ''Les Misérables''. Her most successful video on YouTube, currently with 1.5 million views (as of 14 April 2020), is a live interpretation together with her brother

of the

song "Love Is on the Radio". Fletcher released her first solo album ''When The Curtain Falls'' on 30 March 2018. It was released via musical theatre concert and record producers Club 11 London and accompanied her first four solo concerts at Cadogan Hall, London, on 31 March and 1 April 2018.

Discography

Studio albums

Singles

Music videos

Cast recordings

Theatre credits

References

External links

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