Bonnie Langford: British Actress

Meet Bonnie Langford, British actress and singer. See photos, video and a biography here of the veteran theater, film and television actress who rose to prominence as a 1970s child actress, later known as for her role on Doctor Who and her appearance on reality TV show Dancing on Ice.

Bonnie Langford (picture above) is in the news today because she is about to make her first appearance Broadway in 35 years.

The actress who last appeared on Broadway as Baby June in the revival of ‘Gypsy’ in 1974 as a child actress, will portray Roxie Hart in the long-running Tony Award-winning revival of the John Kander and Fred Ebb musical Chicago at the Ambassador Theatre from June 30 to July 7, 2009.

As a biography, Bonnie Langford was born on July 22, 1964 so her age is 44. She attended The Arts Educational School and the Italia Conti Academy stage school. She was only four months old when she made her first stage appearance, and later at age 15 months, danced wearing custom-made ballet shoes.

At age 6, she won the talent show Opportunity Knocks which first brought her to prominence and led to several TV and movie roles during the 1970s a child star, and notably as Violet Elizabeth Bott in the TV adaptation of Just William and in the movies Bugsy Malone and Wombling Free.

She made her Broadway debut in 1974, receiving a Drama Desk nomination for her performance as Baby June in the revival of Gypsy.

Subsequently, she appeared on television in the mid-1980s as the a companion of Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy’s Doctor Who. She has had numerous stage appearances in West End musicals including Peter Pan: The Musical, Cats and The Pirates of Penzance.

She rose again to the limelight in 2006 when she competed on the ITV celebrity reality TV Dancing on Ice and subsequently return to theater, portraying Roxie Hart in Chicago and on West End, performing in Guys & Dolls on tour, and since 2006 performing on tour with Sandi Toksvig in Short and Curly a two-woman theatrical play.

More Bonnie Langford photos and a video are below.

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