Stephanie Lawrence Movies and Career Information

Stephanie Lawrence (16 December 1949 – 4 November 2000) was a British musical theatre actress. Stephanie Lawrence was born in Hayling Island, Hampshire, the daughter of a singer and classically trained dancer.She was from an early age close friends with another Famous Islander Peter Chilvers who in 1958 invented the Windsurfer. Having trained at the Arts Educational School at Tring, Hertfordshire, she made her debut in The Nutcracker at the Royal Festival Hall in London in 1962. Her West End debut came at the age of 16, playing the part of a rollerskating tap dancer in Forget Me Not Lane. Her first musical appearance in the West End was in Bubbling Brown Sugar. In 1979 Hal Prince chose Stephanie to take over the role of Eva Peron in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita from Marti Webb. She left Evita to create the title role of Marilyn Monroe in Marilyn! the Musical, which won her outstanding reviews and the Best Actress of the Year Award from the Royal Variety Club of Great Britain as well as a nomination from the Society of West End Theatre Awards (now the Olivier Awards). Marilyn was followed by the part of Pearl in the original London production of Starlight Express. In 1986 Stephanie