Biography
Jennifer Ellison first gained widespread attention through her performances in the long-running British soap Brookside and the 2004 Hollywood film version of The Phantom of the Opera, though she also pursued a short-lived singing career during the mid-2000s. The Liverpool native, born in 1983, started dance lessons at age three and attended multiple performing arts institutions prior to securing her breakthrough part as Emily Chadwick on the Channel 4 series Brookside in 1998, a role she continued until 2003. That same year she entered the music industry with her rendition of Transvision Vamp's "Baby I Don't Care," which peaked at number six, yet her follow-up "Bye Bye Boy"—an adaptation of Nanase Aikawa's 1996 J-rock track—only managed number 13 after she triumphed on Gordon Ramsay's Hell's Kitchen, leading to her release from the Emap roster. In subsequent years Ellison has focused primarily on stage and screen work, taking the part of Meg Giry in 2004's The Phantom of the Opera, portraying kidnap victim Tracey in the British horror film The Cottage, and appearing as Roxie Hart in Chicago on the West End as well as Beth in the touring production of Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds.
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