melanie La Barrie
Biography & Awards
2025 Whatsonstage award for best supporting actress – Hadestown
Melanie is a theatre, television and film actor working in London and NYC.
She has just completed her run as Old Deuteronomy in Cats at the Regent’s Park Open Air theatre, after appearing as the Witch in Into the Woods at the Bridge Theatre. She has recently been seen on ITV in Emmerdale as Carol Lambert. Recently, she appeared in Mary Page Marlowe at the Old Vic, starring opposite Susan Sarandon, Andrea Riseborough and Eleanor Worthington-Cox.
Melanie has also appeared as Hermes in the Original West End Cast of Hadestown, for which she won the Whatsonstage Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical.
1990
first LP – ‘coming out’
The single ‘I Will Always Be There For You’ becomes a national hit
1998
first play – Clear Water
At an open audition, she secured her first serious role. This show would come to London two years later in 2000, where she would make her debut at the Barbican in London.
2003
First west end show – Ragtime
Melanie is cast as a replacement, learns the show in 1 week and makes her West End debut in the ensemble. Additionally, she covers Sarah’s friend, which she played for one performance. Sadly, the show closes after just 3 months.
2004
First part in a west end show – mary poppins
Mrs Corry is the first of many roles that Melanie would originate in the West End
2023
First Broadway show – & juliet
Melanie appears in & Juliet at the Stephen Sondheim Theater, making her Broadway debut.
2025
Hadestown and the whatsonstage awards
Melanie wins her first major theatre award at the age of 50.
Photos
Portraits by Sergei Sarakhanov
Recent Show
Cats
Melanie just ended her run in Drew McOnie’s reimagining of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s acclaimed musical, Cats, at the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre. Stay tuned for her next project