Linzi Hateley

Linzi is an Olivier Award nominee and Theatre World Award winner who has starred on Broadway, in the West End, with the RSC, and at the National Theatre.

She now returns to the role of the Narrator, having first starred in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in 1991 opposite Jason Donovan and Phillip Schofield at the London Palladium – for which she received an Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical.
Born in Birmingham, Linzi trained at the Italia Conti Academy. At the age of 17, she was cast in the title role in the RSC’s production of Carrie. After playing in Stratford, the show transferred to Broadway, for which Linzi won the Theatre World Award for Best Newcomer.
In the UK, Linzi’s other theatre credits include: Mrs Johnstone in Blood Brothers (National Tour); Donna Sheridan in Mamma Mia! (Novello & Prince of Wales Theatres); Charity Barnum in Barnum (National Tour); Helen in London Road (National Theatre); 50th Anniversary Gala (National Theatre); Madame Thenardier in Les Misérables (Queen’s Theatre); Roxie Hart in Chicago (Adelphi & Cambridge Theatres); Winifred Banks in Mary Poppins (Prince Edward Theatre); Frankie in On Your Toes; Nancy in Oliver!; Red Riding Hood in Into The Woods; Angel in The Rink (Leicester Haymarket); Martha in The Secret Garden (RSC Stratford/Aldwych Theatre); Hortense in Divorce Me, Darling! (Chichester Festival Theatre); Little Voice in The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (Basingstoke Haymarket); Barb in Romance Romance (Gielgud Theatre); Rizzo in Grease (Dominion Theatre); Kolo-Kolo Bird in Just So (Tricycle Theatre); Eponine in Les Misérables (Palace Theatre).
Workshops include: Jean in Hugo; Paul McCartney’s It’s A Wonderful Life; The Ghost Map (NT).
Film and Television includes: Audrey Colshaw in EastEnders (BBC); Jacobina in History of a Pleasure Seeker (Hat Trick); Oxford Professor in Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again (Littlestar/Universal); Helen in London Road (NT/Cuba Pictures); Turning Woman in Les Misérables (Working Title Films); Mrs Cratchet in A Christmas Carol (Hallmark Entertainment); Polly Winter in Julie and the Cadillacs (Parker Mead).
Linzi made her New York solo cabaret debut with Linzi Hateley: True Colors at 54 Below; has performed her solo show Broadway Baby across the UK; appeared as special guest to Betty Buckley at Carnegie Hall; as special guest to Lorna Luft on the BBC’s Friday Night Is Music Night; closed The Olivier Awards 2018; and has recorded three solo albums.