Sarah Earnshaw
actress
Sarah Earnshaw (born 26 December 1983) is a British actress known for her work in musical theatre.
Early life
Born in Leeds in 1983, Earnshaw moved to London in 2000 to train at Mountview Academy of Arts in London, graduating in 2003 with a first class BA in Musical Theatre.
Theatre credits and career
Earnshaw made her West End debut in the Original London Cast of Wicked, at the Apollo Victoria Theatre, as a Glinda / Nessarose understudy. The show officially opened on 27 September 2006, after previews from 7 September. She later became the Glinda standby in 2007. She left the company on 8 January 2011, with Rachel Tucker as Elphaba and Louise Dearman as Glinda.
In 2013, Earnshaw played Lady of the Lake in Spamalot at The Playhouse Theatre in the West End and Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors at Aberystwyth Arts Centre.
She created the role of Sam in Payback (at the Riverside Studios) in June 2013, opposite Matthew White, and Christmas 2013 saw Earnshaw appear as Fairy in Jack and the Beanstalk at Sheffield Lyceum.
In 2011, she took the role of Emma Carew in Jekyll & Hyde on the 2nd U.K. Tour opposite Marti Pellow as Jekyll/Hyde.
In 2012, she played 'The Ghost of Christmas Past' in Scrooge at the London Palladium, reprising the role she had previously played on the UK Tour of the musical opposite Tommy Steele.
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