Melissa Jacques
Melissa Jacques played Margaret New in Everybody's Talking About Jamie in the West End and at its American premiere in Los Angeles. Her other West End credits include Just For One Day, Kinky Boots and Mamma Mia!.
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Melissa Jacques is a British musical theatre actor who grew up in Sheffield. She played Margaret New in Everybody's Talking About Jamie at the Apollo Theatre in London. She joined the show in 2018 as standby for Margaret, Ray and Miss Hedge, took over as Margaret in September 2019, and stayed until the West End run closed in 2021. She played the role again at the American premiere at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles in 2022.
She was in the original London cast of Mamma Mia! in 1999, understudying Donna, Rosie and Tanya, and later became the alternate Donna. Her other West End work includes Suzanne in Just For One Day at the Shaftesbury Theatre, Trish in Kinky Boots at the Adelphi Theatre, and the Midwife and cover for Madame Morrible in Wicked.
She has toured the UK and Ireland as Shelley in I Should Be So Lucky and April in NOW That's What I Call A Musical, and played Georgie and the Judge in Redcliffe at Southwark Playhouse. Her screen credits include the film of Wicked, Disenchanted, Doctors and Coronation Street.
Accolades
- Everybody's Talking About JamieWest End · Margaret New
- Everybody's Talking About JamieAmerican Premiere, Los Angeles · Margaret New
- Just For One DayWest End · Suzanne
- Mamma Mia!Original West End Cast · Understudy, later Alternate Donna
- Kinky BootsWest End · Trish
- WickedWest End · Midwife, Madame Morrible Understudy
- I Should Be So LuckyUK and Ireland Tour · Shelley
- NOW That's What I Call A MusicalUK and Ireland Tour · April
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