Actor Biography

Theatre includes: Next Door’s Baby (Orange Tree), Miss Andrew in Mary Poppins (Prince Edward), Baroness Bomburst in Chitty (Palladium), Noises Off (NT), The Gondoliers and The Water Babies (Chichester), Follies (RFH), Tanya in Mamma Mia! (Prince Edward), Lili/Kate in Kiss Me, Kate, Adriana in The Boys from Syracuse and Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Regent’s Park), Assassins (Donmar), Fanny Brice in Ziegfeld (Palladium), Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes (Prince Edward), Nunsense (Fortune), Sink the Belgrano (Mermaid), The Metropolitan Mikado (QEH), The Pirates of Penzance (Drury Lane), The Cherry Orchard (RSC), Lady Into Fox (tour), The Caucasian Chalk Circle and Our Country’s Good (Edinburgh), Calamity Jane and Merrily We Roll Along (Leicester), The Taming of the Shrew (Southampton), Poppy (Half Moon), Blood Brothers (Watermill), Once a Catholic (York), her own one-woman show, cabaret Anna Rexic and the Compulsives and Lost Musicals.
Film includes: Mike Leigh’s Topsy-Turvy, The Pirates of Penzance and Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire.
Television includes: The Alan Clark Diaries, Doctors, The Bill, Casualty, The House of Eliott, ’Allo ’Allo, Blackadder and Laugh I Nearly Paid My Licence Fee.
Radio includes: Dubarry Was a Lady, Into Exile, Ned Sherrin’s Review of Revue, Look Sharp, Let’s Do the Show Right Here, The Treatment and Let ’Em Eat Cake.
Louise worked for many years as a puppeteer with Jim Henson and was also a founding member of the Spitting Image team.