Stephanie Lawrence
Stephanie Lawrence (16 December 1949 – 4 November 2000) was a British musical theatre actress.
Stephanie Lawrence
16 December 1949
4 November 2000 (aged 50)
Career[edit]
Theatre[edit]
Having trained at the Arts Educational School, Tring, Hertfordshire (now Tring Park School for the Performing Arts), she made her debut in The Nutcracker at the Royal Festival Hall in London in 1962.[1] She became a member of the corps de ballet at the Royal Festival Ballet at the age of 12 with the intention of becoming a ballerina, however, her plans were disrupted when she was forced to miss a year after contracting pneumonia aged 15.[2]
Her West End debut came in April 1971, playing the part of a rollerskating tap dancer in Forget-Me-Not Lane.[1] Her first musical appearance in the West End was in Bubbling Brown Sugar.