Linzi Hateley

Linzi Hateley is an English actor, singer and musical theatre performer whose many leading credits include Blood Brothers (Mrs Johnstone), Mamma Mia! (Donna Sheridan), Les Miserables (Madame Thenardier), Chicago (Roxie Hart), Mary Poppings (Mrs Banks), Barnum, London Road, Anyone Can Whistle, Love Songs, On Your Toes, The Secret Garden, Oliver!, Divorce Me Darling, Into the Woods, The Rink, Romance Romance, Grease, Joseph & the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat and Carrie.

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In the West End, Linzi Hateley has starred in the original London revival production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat as The Narrator (for which she was nominated for an Olivier Award), Nancy in Oliver!, Éponine and Madame Thenardier in Les Misérables, Roxie Hart in Chicago, Martha in the original production of The Secret Garden, Winifred Banks in the original production of Mary Poppins, and most recently, Donna in Mamma Mia!, a role she reprised at the Prince of Wales Theatre in the West End. In 2012, Hateley appeared in the revival of the National Theatre's production of London Road, as the character Helen. In 2015, she starred in the national tour of Barnum.

Hateley has released three solo albums:

• For The First Time (1992)
• Sooner or Later (1994)
• True Colours (2001)

In 2008 Hateley recorded a song for the CD Act One - Songs From The Musicals Of Alexander S. Bermange, an album of 20 brand new recordings by 26 West End stars, released in November 2008 on Dress Circle Records. She can also be heard on the original cast recordings of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Mary Poppins. 

Hateley also had a small role in the Les Misérables film, for which she also recorded the Eponine "scream".