Website Content

Skip to footer

< Back to ListTracie Bennett

Jacqueline

West End theatre: Velma von Tussle in Hairspray (Shaftesbury Theatre - Olivier Award for Best Supporting Performance); Madame Thenardier in Les Misérables (Queen’s Theatre, London); Ray Cooney’s Cash on Delivery (Whitehall Theatre, London); and She Loves Me (Savoy Theatre, London – Olivier Award for Best Supporting Performance).

Regional theatre: Sex, Chips and Rock ‘n’ Roll (Royal Exchange, Manchester – TMA Award for Best Performance); Billy Liar (national tour); High Society (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, London – Olivier Award Nomination for Best Performance); Last Song of the Nightingale (New End, Hampstead and Greenwich Theatre and Edinburgh Festival); Honk! (national tour); Guys and Dolls, Educating Rita and Wendy in Spring Awakening (Sheffield Crucible); Sondheim’s Saturday Night, Lucky Stiff (Bridewell Theatre, London); Bedevilled (Sheffield Crucible); Terry Johnson’s Dead Funny (national tour); One for the Road (Palace,Watford); She Stoops to Conquer, Putting on the Ritz (Leicester Haymarket); Amid the Standing Corn (national tour – Joint Stock Theatre Company); Breezeblock Park, Blood Brothers, Chicago and Grease (Forum, Manchester); Blood Brothers (Olympia, Dublin); Working Class Hero, Ten Tiny Fingers and Merrily We Roll Along (Library Theatre, Manchester); Portia in The Merchant of Venice, Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hero in Much Ado About Nothing (schools’ tour); Hans Christian Andersen (tour); and White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland (Jersey). For her performances in Carousel, Grease, Working Class Hero and Merrily We Roll Along, Tracie received the Manchester Evening News Drama Award for Best Actress.

Television: Tracie has played leading roles in numerous programmes, most recently: Doctors, Dalziel and Pascoe, Casualty, Northern Lights, Vincent with Ray Winstone, The Royal, The Court, Judy Garland in The Long Firm, MIT, The Bill, Heroes and Villains, Keen Eddie, Burn It, Mersey Beat, Where the Heart Is, The Ambassador, Verdict, Heartburn Hotel, Heartbeat, Next of Kin, Joking Apart, Making Out, The Gingerbread Girl, Rich Tea and Sympathy, Ruth Rendell Mysteries, Made in Heaven, The Bretts, The Ritz, The Refuge, Unnatural Causes, The Rector of Stiffkey, Boon, The Courtroom, Brush Strokes, Coronation Street, The Upper Hand,Alas Smith and Jones, Black Silk, Relative Strangers, Going Out, Educating Marmalade and Jackanory. Tracie also won Celebrity Stars in Their Eyes as Judy Garland and played God in Harley’s Angels.

Presenting: Anchorwoman for Soap Fever, The Bombing of Manchester (documentary), OKTV for Carlton and had her own show called Tracie Goes to Hollywood.

Film: Shirley Valentine (Paramount); Knights and Emeralds for David Puttnam; Deep Red Instant Love; Lofty Life (animated short) and F2.8. Tracie also produced a short, French Fries on the Golden Front.

Concerts: An Evening With Cy Coleman (St David’s Hall, Cardiff); An Evening of Gershwin (Royal Albert Hall); and An Evening With Tommy Steele (tour).

Recordings: People Like Us and The Snowfield. Tracie is the recorded voice of Bridget Jones for both books of Bridget Jones’ Diary and The Edge of Reason for which she received the International Audie Award for Comedy Best Actress.

Website Footer

Back to top