Samantha Jane Barks (born 2 October 1990) is a Manx actress and singer who rose to fame after placing third in the BBC talent show-themed television series I'd Do Anything in 2008.[2] She has released three studio albums: Looking in Your Eyes (2007), Samantha Barks (2016), and Into the Unknown (2021), and made her film debut as Éponine in the Tom Hooper-directed Les Misérables in 2012.[3] Her performance in the film won her the Empire Award for Best Female Newcomer and a shared National Board of Review Award with the film's cast.[4]
Barks starred opposite Jonathan Bailey in the Disney Channel musical-comedy Groove High (2012–2013) and again, in the London revival of the musical The Last Five Years in 2016.[5] In 2018, she originated the role of Vivian Ward in Pretty Woman: The Musical on Broadway. Since 2021, she has played Elsa in the West End production of Frozen, though she took some time off for maternity leave.
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Samantha Jane Barks (born 2 October 1990) is a Manx actress and singer who rose to fame after placing third in the BBC talent show-themed television series...
star in the stage adaptation of the 1990 film Pretty Woman, opposite SamanthaBarks in her Broadway debut. The musical, titled Pretty Woman: The Musical...
writing the opera Don Giovanni. It stars Aneurin Barnard, James Purefoy, SamanthaBarks, Morfydd Clark, Adrian Edmondson and Anna Rust. It was directed by John...
Theatre in 2017. In 2019, McKeon was cast as Princess Anna opposite SamanthaBarks as Elsa in the West End run of the stage adaptation of Disney's Frozen...
touring rock pop stars Tom played by Jonathan Bailey and Zoe played by SamanthaBarks as they reminisce their time at their performing arts high school Groove...
Ute Lemper. She was portrayed by Lisa Kelly in the Irish production. SamanthaBarks starred as Velma in the 2013 Hollywood Bowl production. In 1999, Neuwirth...
or Money featured Speleers as Johnny, opposite Robert Kazinsky and SamanthaBarks, in 2019. In the same year, he produced Dad Was, the second short film...
author, and comedian SamanthaBarks (born 1990), Manx singer and actress Samantha Barning (born 1989), Dutch badminton player Samantha Beckinsale (born 1966)...
year. Ware will be joined on the panel by Alan Carr, Amber Riley, and SamanthaBarks, with Zoe Ball as host. Towards the end of 2017, Ware launched a podcast...
was cast as Nancy in the 2011-13 UK tour of Oliver!, in the place of SamanthaBarks, who was cast as Eponine in the film Les Misérables. Simmons took the...
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City of Angels, alongside his wife Rosalie Craig as Gabby/Bobbi and SamanthaBarks as Mallory/Avril. An avid musician as well, Fraser can be heard on Scott...
Menningarnótt program. In 2017, Crowe and Doyle had created a new act (with SamanthaBarks, Scott Grimes and Carl Falk) called Indoor Garden Party who appeared...
also appears in George Mendeluk's Bitter Harvest, opposite Max Irons, SamanthaBarks, Barry Pepper, and Aneurin Barnard. In addition to his acting career...
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