​Janie Dee​

​Janie Dee is an award-winning British actress, singer and musical theatre performer, characterised by her extraordinary versatility in acclaimed work on stage, film, television and radio. Her career embraces everything from Shakespeare at the Royal Shakespeare Company and Shakespeare's Globe, to revivals of classic plays at the Bath Festival, directed by Sir Peter Hall, acclaimed performances in modern dramas and comedies, and leading roles in classic musicals, both in the West End and major regional theatres. Janie is also a passionate champion of new writing. In addition, she regularly performs her own witty and sophisticated cabaret at leading venues including Crazy Coqs, The Hippodrome, The Pheasantry, the St James Studio, Aldeburgh Festival and the 'Divas at the Donmar' season.

Janie has worked closely with contemporary playwrights, particularly Alan Ayckbourn and Michael Frayn, and the late Harold Pinter in numerous productions and has become a renowned interpreter of their work. In recent years, she has also worked with the next generation of outstanding emerging playwrights, including Lucy Kirkwood, whose acclaimed new play NSFW was premiered at The Royal Court in 2012 and for which Janie received her fourth Olivier Award nomination, this time as Best Supporting Actress in a Play, for her performance as glossy womens' magazine editor, Miranda.

Janie is increasingly expanding her work in film and television and has recently completed two feature films; Dare To Be Wild, set in Ireland and written and directed by Vivienne Decourcy and The Trouble With Dot and Harry, opposite Neil Morrissey, written and directed by Sundance Festival Grand Prize-winner, Gary Walkow.

Janie won the three most prestigious awards in British Theatre; the Olivier Award, the Evening Standard Award and Critics Circle Awards for Best Actress in a Play, as well as the Obie and Theatre World Best Newcomer Award in New York, for her hilarious and heartbreaking performance as  Jacie Triplethree in Alan Ayckbourn's Comic Potential. She also received the Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical for her performance as Carrie Pipperidge in Nicholas Hytner's acclaimed production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel at the National Theatre and the TMA UK Theatre Award 2013 for Best Performance in a Musical for her performance as Dolly Levi in Hello, Dolly! at Curve, Leicester.

In 2014 Janie appeared in the London premiere of Stephen Sondheim's Putting It Together at the St James Theatre, delighted audiences and critics in the acclaimed West End revival of Noel Coward's classic Blithe Spirit at the Gielgud Theatre, starring legendary stage, film and television star, Dame Angela Lansbury and played Titania/Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Dominic Dromgoole in the Shakespeare's Globe tour of Asia and Russia. The following year, she played Desiree Armfeldt in a 40th anniversary concert performance of Sondheim's A Little Night Music at the Palace Theatre, Helene Hanff in 84 Charing Cross Road at Salisbury Playhouse, starred in a rare revival of Eugene O'Neill's Ah Wilderness! at the Young Vic and as Irina Arkadina in Chekov's The Seagull at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, directed by Matthew Dunster. 

In Spring 2016, Janie starred in the West End transfer of Tony-nominted, hit Broadway play Hand To God by Robert Askins at the Vaudeville Theatre, alongside Neil Pearson, Harry Melling, Jemima Ropper and Kevin Mains (Olivier Award nomination for Best Comedy) and in September she played Cleopatra and Beatrice with Shakespeare's Globe in two concerts with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the legendary Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, which was reprised at London's Barbican in October with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. 

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Janie gave a critically acclaimed performance as Linda by Penelope Skinner at Manhattan Theater Club, NYC, for which she was nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play, and has just starred as Phyllis Rogers Stone in Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's Follies at the National Theatre London, opposite Imelda Staunton as Sally Durant Plummer and Philip Quast as Benjamin Stone. Janie has been nominated for the Evening Standard Award for Best Musical Performance and the WhatsOnStage Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her performance in Follies.