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Biography
Lorna Want (born 28 June 1987) is an Olivier Award winning British theatre actress. She is currently playing songwriter Cynthia Weil, in Beautiful, the Carole King musical at the Aldwych Theatre in London.
Career
Want first appeared in the West End at the age of 15, playing Juliet in a new musical version of Romeo and Juliet, at the Piccadilly Theatre. Other West End work includes - Ariel Moore in Footloose (Novello Theatre Original Cast), Mistress in Andrew Lloyd Webber's new revival of Evita (Adelphi), Monteen in Parade (Donmar Warehouse), Luisa in the new revival of The Fantasticks (Duchess), and Laura in Dreamboats and Petticoats (Playhouse 2010) She is currently playing songwriter Cynthia Weil in the Carole King Musical "Beautiful" (Aldwych), for which she won an Olivier Award. She also appeared in the I Dream comedy series, along with a popular teen group S Club 8, where she played Natalie.
Regional work and touring includes- Young Cosette in Les Miserables (Birmingham Hippodrome 1997), Ariel Moore in Footloose" (UK Tours 2006 and 2011) Gabriella in the original British cast of High School Musical" (UK Tour 2008), Title role in Sleeping Beauty (Bromley Churchill 2009/10), Wendy in Peter Pan (Woking New Victoria 2011 and Manchester Opera House 2012) Hope Harcourt in Anything Goes (Kilworth House Theatre 2013), Maid Marian in Robin Hood (Cambridge Arts Theatre) Winnie Tate in Annie Get Your Gun (UK Tour 2014)
She appeared in an episode of Casualty on 15 September 2007, and an episode of Doctors in 2012.
Awards
- 2015 - Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Musical for her role as Cynthia Weil in Beautiful