Rachael Wooding

{{Short description|English stage actress and singer}}

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| birth_place = Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England

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| occupation = Actress, Singer, Dancer

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| spouse = George Maguire (m. July 2022)

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Rachael Emma Wooding (born 27 September 1978) is an Olivier Award winning English born musical theatre performer, best known for her performances in We Will Rock You, playing Meat and Scaramouche. She began her career in musicals in Germany – such as Cats and Starlight Express. After West End success in Saturday Night Fever and Fame, she went on to play Amber in the original London cast of Hairspray the Musical. Wooding left Hairspray in October 2008. She then performed the title role in Evita the Musical on the UK tour.{{cite web |url=http://www.mayflower.org.uk/event.asp?show=evita09 |title=Evita Tour information |access-date=2008-12-08 |work=Southampton Mayflower website}}

From March 2011, she featured as Mary Delgado in the West End production of Jersey Boys, before leaving the cast after a year to concentrate on other projects; sometimes as a singer in function band Bloomfield Avenue. In October 2012 she returned to We Will Rock You to play principal Scaramouche alongside Oliver Tompsett as Galileo.

Career

Wooding is a 5' 4" mezzo-soprano.{{cite web |url=http://www.cam.co.uk/client/rachael-wooding/ |title=Agent Representation |access-date=2020-08-15 |work=Creative Artists Management}} Wooding trained at the Bird College of performing arts,{{cite web |url=http://www.birdcollege.co.uk/cgi/v2displaygraduatelist.cgi?tpl=v2news_graduatelist&css=bcv2_ff.css&id= |title=College Graduates |access-date=2008-12-08 |website=Birdcollege.co.uk}} and has been in musicals from a young age. She appeared on Britain's Got Talent in 2016. For her audition, she sang "With You" from Ghost the Musical and in the semi-final she sang "Gravity". Her semi-final performance led her to receiving fourth in the public vote and ultimately, being eliminated from the competition.

Her TV roles include:{{Cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3163984/|title=Rachael Wooding|website=IMDb.com|access-date=21 August 2020}}

  • Coronation Street, 2008 (as Beautician) and 2011 (as Mandy)
  • Doctors, 2015 (as Shawna Roper)
  • Girlfriends, 2018 (as Desk Air Steward)

Her Musical Theatre roles include:

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Title

! Role

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Peter Pan

| Mermaid

| Qdos Entertainment

Fat Friends The Musical

| Joanne / Pippa

| U.K. Tour

Spirit of the Dance

| Spirit

| U.S. Tour

Cats

| Demeter/Bombalurina/Rumpleteazer

| Hamburg

Starlight Express

| Pearl the Observation Car

| Germany

Fame

| Serena

| West End

Footloose

| Ariel

| UK Tour

Loveshack

| AJ

| UK Tour

Saturday Night Fever

| Annette

| West End

We Will Rock You

| Meat

| West End

Hairspray

| Amber Von Tussle

| West End

Evita

| Eva Perón

| UK tour

Bright Lights, Big City

|Amanda

|London

Jersey Boys

|Mary Delgado

|West End

We Will Rock You

| Scaramouche, Meat

| West End

Street Of Dreams

|Rita Fairclough and Ida Barlow

|Manchester

Wonderland (musical)

| Alice

| UK Tour

Well-Behaved Women

|Mary Magdalene

|London

Another Night Before Christmas

|Karol

|Bridge House Theatre

Pretty Woman: The Musical

| Kit De Luca

|Piccadilly Theatre, Savoy Theatre

Standing at the Sky's Edge

|Rose

|Sheffield, National Theatre, Gillian Lynne Theatre

References