Birth name Carrie Hope Fletcher Genres Musical theatre, Pop Name Carrie Fletcher | Years active 1997–present Siblings Tom Fletcher TV shows Dog and Duck | |
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Occupation(s) Singer-songwriter, actor, musician, YouTuber, blogger, author Role Singer-songwriter · youtube.com/user/ItsWayPastMyBedTime Books All I Know Now: Wonderings and Reflections on Growing Up Gracefully Parents Bob Fletcher, Debbie Fletcher Nephews Buzz Michelangelo Fletcher Similar People Tom Fletcher, Alex Day, Giovanna Falcone Profiles | ||
Carrie Hope Fletcher sings 'Pulled' from The Addams Family
PetesJams and Carrie Hope Fletcher - At Last I See The Light
Carrie Hope Fletcher (born 22 October 1992) is an English singer, songwriter, actress (primarily in musical theatre), author and vlogger from Harrow.
Contents
- Carrie Hope Fletcher sings Pulled from The Addams Family
- PetesJams and Carrie Hope Fletcher At Last I See The Light
- Early life
- Theatre
- Music
- Writing
- References
As a child, Fletcher played small roles on television and appeared in musical theatre in London's West End. In 2011, she started a YouTube channel called ItsWayPastMyBedTime, which features music and vlogs. As of January 2017, she has over 600,000 subscribers.
Fletcher played Éponine in Les Misérables in the West End until 13 February 2016. In 2015 she published a book called: All I Know Now: Wonderings and Reflections on Growing Up Gracefully, which was a Number 1 bestseller in the UK. Her debut novel On the Other Side was released on 14 July 2016. Her second novel All That She Can See was released on the 13th July 2017.
Early life
Fletcher was born and raised in the London suburb of South Harrow, the daughter of Debbie and Bob Fletcher. Her older brother, Tom Fletcher, is a lead vocalist and guitarist of the band McFly and was a member of the supergroup McBusted.
Her career in acting began at the age of five, when she appeared in a short Channel 4 ident before starring in an advert for Honey Nut Cheerios with Frasier actor Kelsey Grammer. Fletcher has also played several short television roles, including Jenny in the CITV show Dog and Duck.
Theatre
Fletcher made her West End debut as Young Eponine in Les Misérables at the age of seven in 2001. In 2002, she starred in the original cast of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang as Jemima Potts and in 2004, featured as Jane Banks in Mary Poppins.
Fletcher replaced Danielle Hope as Éponine in Les Misérables at the Queen’s Theatre, London in June 2013. She is the only British actor to play both young Éponine and older Éponine in the production. On 23 February 2014, Fletcher was presented the WhatsOnStage “Best Takeover In A Role” award for her role as Éponine.
In November 2014, Fletcher took a hiatus from her role in Les Misérables to join the cast of Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds national arena tour in which she played the role of Beth, alongside Jason Donovan, Brian McFadden and Shayne Ward. She received critical acclaim for her performance as Beth, the Parson’s wife.
Following The War of the Worlds Tour, Fletcher returned over to Les Misérables. She played the role for the musical's 30th Anniversary gala performance on 8 October 2015. Fletcher played her final performance as Eponine on 13 February 2016 and was replaced by Danielle Hope (whom Fletcher succeeded from joining the show). At the time of her departure, she became the longest running Eponine in the London Production's 30 Year history.
On 10 March 2016, Fletcher revealed that as of 4 May she would be rejoining the cast of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang to play Truly Scrumptious, for a UK tour. As previously mentioned, Fletcher was in the original cast when she was nine playing the role of Jemima Potts. Fletcher has been noted as saying she was 'honoured' to be back with this production. Fletcher played her final performance as Truly Scrumptious on 2 October 2016.
Following this, Fletcher announced that she would be playing Eponine in the Dubai production of Les Misérables for one month. Fletcher starred in the 2016 UK production of A Christmas Carol as Emily. The show was with the Musical Theatre Orchestra of London, starred Robert Lindsay as Scrooge and was produced by James Yeoburn and Stuart Price for United Theateical, directed by Shaun Kerrison and conducted by Freddie Tapner.
In November 2016, it was announced that she will be playing the role of Wednesday Addams in the musical production of The Addams Family in 2017 when it embarks on a tour of the UK. The production stars Samantha Womack and Les Dennis and is produced by James Yeoburn and Stuart Matthew Price for United Theatrical, Katy Lipson for Area Entertainment and Music & Lyrics in association witb Festival Theatre, Edinburgh
Music
Fletcher has produced two singles, "Running Through Rivers" and "The Way We Were" which are both available for download from iTunes. She performed to benefit Sheytoons at the St. James Theater, as well as Ramin Karimloo on his 2012 "Road To Find Out" tour. In 2012, she performed the official 2012 Summer Olympics song with her brother, Tom.
Fletcher is featured in Alex Day’s 2013 album Epigrams and Interludes on the songs covering "Poison" and "This Kiss". Fletcher can also be seen in The Vamps' music video for their cover of McFly's "That Girl". In 2014, Fletcher had featured in Daniel Koek's album High in the song "Remember Me". Koek was a colleague and fellow cast member of Fletcher's in Les Misérables.
Writing
In April 2015, Fletcher released her first book, All I Know Now: Wonderings and Reflections on Growing Up Gracefully, based on her blog of the same name. The non-fiction book focuses on stages of Fletcher’s life as a teenager and passes on life lessons and advice through highlighting her own mistakes and struggles as she grew up. Her book was a number one Sunday Times bestseller and remained in the top ten list for seven weeks.
In June 2015, Fletcher officially announced that she had started writing a new fiction novel, titled On The Other Side, which was published 14 July 2016.
In March 2017 Fletcher announced her second novel All That She Can See, which was published 13 July 2017.