Janie Dee
- The show’s glory is Janie Dee. She plays all the layers simultaneously: incredulous and wistful, chilly and carnal. Is she the best actor in Britain? Could be. (Sunday Times Culture)
Janie Dee is an award-winning British actress and singer with a career spanning over 30 years. Her West End debut came in Gillian Lynne's 1986 revival of Cabaret, and since then her musical credits in town include Cats, Show Boat and Mack and Mabel, as well as productions of Carousel and Follies at the National Theatre in London.
Dee has won the three most prestigious awards in British Theatre; the Olivier Award, the Evening Standard Award and Critics Circle Awards for Best Actress in a Play, as well as the Obie and Theatre World Best Newcomer Award in New York, for herperformance as Jacie Triplethree in Alan Ayckbourn's Comic Potential.
She has also played Cleopatra and Beatrice with Shakespeare's Globe in two concerts with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the legendary Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, which was reprised at London's Barbican in October with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
