Frances Ruffelle

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 Englishlanguage 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 200304 2007 the title role in Piaf 2013 Bella in The AZ 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 YehYeh 2015