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Frances Ruffelle

Frances Ruffelle

Actor · b. 1965 · London, England, UK

Frances Ruffelle (born 29 August 1965) is an English musical theatre actress and singer. She won a Tony Award in 1987, and represented the United Kingdom in the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Lonely Symphony (We Will Be Free)", finishing 10th. The song became a UK Top 30 hit. In 1984, Ruffelle starred as Dinah in the original West End production of Starlight Express. From 1985, she was the original Éponine in the first English-language productions of Les Misérables in the West End and on Broadway, winning the 1987 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. Other stage roles include Yonah in Children of Eden (1991), Roxie Hart in Chicago (2003–04, 2007), the title role in Piaf (2013), Bella in The A–Z of Mrs P (2014), and Queenie in The Wild Party. Her albums include Fragile (1994), Frances Ruffelle (1998), Showgirl (2004), Imperfectly Me (2010), and I Say Yeh-Yeh (2015).

Movies14

  • Movie7.3

    Les Misérables

    2012 · 5.7K votes

  • Movie7.6

    Secrets & Lies

    1996 · 753 votes

  • Movie5.2

    Locked Down

    2021 · 322 votes

  • Movie6.1

    Breach

    2026 · 4 votes

  • Movie7.7
  • Movie8.3
  • Movie6.9

    The Hiding Place

    1975 · 35 votes

  • Movie6.8

    P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang

    1982 · 24 votes

  • Movie8.3
  • Movie4.3
  • Movie3.6

    Devil's Tower

    2014 · 30 votes

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  • Movie4.8

    Long Forgotten Fields

    2017 · 4 votes

Series6

  • TV6.6

    Top of the Pops

    1964 · 44 votes

  • TV7.1

    The Equalizer

    1985 · 69 votes

  • TV
  • TV5.3

    An Audience with...

    1978 · 3 votes

  • TV7.3

    Strangers

    1978 · 4 votes

  • TV8.0

    Objects of Affection

    1982 · 2 votes