Michael Starke (actor) other daughter Jamie is an actress and appeared in an episode of The Royal. In recent years, he has starred in many touring productions of West End musicals, including playing the role of Edna Turnblad in the first UK tour of Hairspray and originating the role of Monsignor Howard in the first UK tour of Sister Act the musical. He also made appearances in Anything Goes and Our Day Out. He appeared in the 2014 Kenneth Branagh directed action thriller film """". Later he starred in the soap opera "Doctors". In December 2017, he appeared at the Liverpool Playhouse in
The Woman in White (musical) Halcombe was performed by standby Lisa Brescia on Broadway during Maria Friedman's absence. The Woman in White (musical) The Woman in White is a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and David Zippel with a book by Charlotte Jones, based on the novel "The Woman in White" written by Wilkie Collins, and elements of "The Signal-Man" by Charles Dickens. It ran for nineteen months in the West End and three months on Broadway, making it one of Lloyd Webber's shortest-running shows. The musical was produced in a workshop at Lloyd Webber's Sydmonton Festival (Hampshire, England) in July 2003. The musical opened