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Natalie Hope (born 19 August 1983) is a British actress and singer, who played the role of Mayor/Ma in the West End production of The Toxic Avenger. She has played the role of Natalie in original West End cast of The Commitments and has a number of other professional stage and theatre credits, such as Alternate Eva Peron in Evita and Carole King in the World Premiere of Laughter In The Rain.

Contents [hide] 1	Early life 2	Stage career 3	Charity work 4	Awards and nominations 5	References 6	External links

Early life[edit source] Hope grew up in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, attending Foxes Piece Primary School[1] and Wycombe High School.[2] She enjoyed performing from the age of 9, at the Jeanine Greville Dance Academy. Hope was lucky enough to have professional work as a child and performed in Oliver! at the London Palladium and Carmen at the Colosium with the ENO. Hope always had a keen interest in performing and every summer was involved with the Wycombe Swan Youth Project where she performed the leading roles of Sally in Me and My Girl, Nancy in Oliver and Anita in West Side Story. Natalie studied English Literature, Business Studies and Theatre studies at A level but decided performing was the career she wanted to undertake and auditioned to successfully gain a place at at Laine Theatre Arts.[3]

Stage career[edit source] After graduating from Laine Theatre Arts, Hope did a variety of theatre work, her big break coming in 2009 when she made her landed the role of alternate Eva Peron in Evita.[4] For a while after this she achieved mainly minor theatre roles but hit the West End once more when cast as Natalie in the Original West End Production of The Commitments 2013, also taking on the role of Resident Choreographer for the show.

After being cast in The Commitments,[6] Hope gave her final performance in November 2015 and joined the cast of Legally Blonde playing Brooke Wyndham at Leicester Curve, directed by Nikolai Foster.[7]

Hope is now part of the Original West End cast of The Toxic Avenger[8] at the Arts Theatre, London. She is triple cast as Mayor/Ma and Nun. She will be with the production until it closes on 3rd December 2017.

Other stage credits include understudying the roles of Magenta in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Carmen in Fame, Betsy in Sweet Charity and Gabriella in High School Musical.

Recent theatre credits

Start Date	 End date	       Production	          Role(s)	                         Venue(s) 7th July 2005	 15th December 2005	Rocky Horror Show	 Phantom US Magenta	                 Various - European Tour 2nd Feb 2006	 29th August 2006	Beyond The Barricade     Soloist                                Various - UK Tour 30th August 2006 July 2010	Playhouse Theatre 22 August 2010	19 September 2010	Darling of the Day[10]	Ensemble / Dance Captain	Ondaatje Wing Theatre 23 March 2011	26 March 2011	Heaven Sent	Vanessa	New Wimbledon Studios 22 August 2011	3 September 2011	A Comedy of Eric's	Lady Montague	New Vic Theatre 10 October 2011	6 October 2012	We Will Rock You	Ensemble, Understudy Scaramouche	Dominion Theatre 8 October 2012	5 October 2013	Ensemble, Understudy Meat / Scaramouche 2 December 2013	31 January 2015	Wicked	Standby Elphaba	Apollo Victoria Theatre 2 February 2015	3 September 2016	Elphaba 12 January 2017	23 July 2017	Evita	Eva Perón	Various - UK/German Tour 28 July 2017	13 October 2017	Phoenix Theatre Charity work[edit source] Hatton completes a lot of work for charity, and is known for her fundraising for the British Heart Foundation. She has organised and starred in two concerts, both entitled Songbirds in 2013 [11] and 2014,[12] the latter featuring stars such as Sophie Linder-Lee, Jacqueline Hughes and Kerry Enright. She has also presented on the British Heart Foundation radio station.

In 2013 and again in 2014, Hatton ran the London Marathon for the charity, raising £9,266 in 2014, and completing the feat in a time of 5 hours and 39 minutes.[13] She also ran the Royal Parks Foundation Half Marathon on 12 October 2014 to raise money for Moorfields Eye Charity and performed at Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens, in aid of the MAD Trust on 31 May 2015.

Awards and nominations[edit source] In the last two years, Hatton has accrued five award nominations for her West End work.

Year	Nominated work	Award	Awards	Result 2013	Scaramouche / Meat in We Will Rock You	Understudy of the Year	West End Frame Awards	Nominated 2014	Standby Elphaba in Wicked	Understudy of the Year	West End Frame Awards	Nominated 2014	Standby Elphaba in Wicked	Understudy of the Year	BroadwayWorld UK Awards	Nominated 2015	Elphaba in Wicked	Best Performance in a Musical	The Version Music Honours	Nominated 2015	Elphaba in Wicked	Best Performance of a Song	West End Frame Awards	Nominated