Carrie Hope Fletcher
Carrie Hope Fletcher is an English actress, author, singer-songwriter and internet personality.
As a child, Fletcher played small roles on television and appeared in musical theatre in London's West End. In 2011, she started a YouTube channel called Carrie Hope Fletcher, which features music and vlogs. As of June 2020, she has over 652,500 subscribers.
Fletcher played Éponine in Les Misérables in the West End until 13 February 2016 and later played Fantine in the musical's revival at Sondheim Theatre, which started on 18 December 2019. In 2015 she published a book called: All I Know Now: Wonderings and Reflections on Growing Up Gracefully, which was a Number 1 bestseller in the UK. Her debut novel On the Other Side was released on 14 July 2016. Her second novel All That She Can See was released on 13 July 2017. Her third novel When The Curtain Falls was released on 12 July 2018. Her fourth novel In The Time We Lost was released on 17 October 2019.
Early life
Fletcher was born and raised in South Harrow in the London borough of Harrow, the daughter of Debbie and Bob Fletcher. Her older brother, Tom Fletcher, is a lead vocalist and guitarist of the band McFly.Her career in acting began at the age of five, when she appeared in a short Channel 4 ident before starring in an advert for Honey Nut Cheerios with Frasier actor Kelsey Grammer. Fletcher has also played several short television roles, including Jenny in the CITV show Dog and Duck.
Theatre
Fletcher made her West End debut as Young Éponine in Les Misérables at the age of 7 in 2001. In 2002, she starred in the original cast of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang as Jemima Potts, and in 2004 featured as Jane Banks in Mary Poppins.Fletcher replaced Danielle Hope as Éponine in Les Misérables at the Queen’s Theatre, London in June 2013. She is the only British actor to play both young Éponine and older Éponine in the production. On 23 February 2014, Fletcher was presented the WhatsOnStage "Best Takeover in a Role" award for her role as Éponine.
In November 2014, Fletcher took a hiatus from her role in Les Misérables to join the cast of Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds national arena tour in which she played the role of Beth, alongside Jason Donovan, Brian McFadden and Shayne Ward.
Following the War of the Worlds tour, Fletcher returned to Les Misérables. She played the role for the musical's 30th anniversary gala performance on 8 October 2015. Fletcher played her final performance as Éponine on 13 February 2016. At the time of her departure, she became the longest running Éponine in the London production's thirty-year history.
On 10 March 2016, Fletcher revealed that as of 4 May she would be rejoining the cast of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang to play Truly Scrumptious, for a UK tour. Fletcher was in the original cast when she was nine playing the role of Jemima Potts. She played her final performance as Scrumptious on 2 October 2016.
Following this, Fletcher announced that she would be playing Éponine in the Dubai production of Les Misérables for one month. Fletcher starred in the 2016 UK production of A Christmas Carol as Emily. The show was with the London Musical Theatre Orchestra, starred Robert Lindsay as Scrooge and was produced by James Yeoburn and Stuart Matthew Price for United Theatrical, directed by Shaun Kerrison and conducted by Freddie Tapner.
In 2017, she played the role of Wednesday Addams on the UK tour of the musical production of The Addams Family. The production starred Samantha Womack and Les Dennis and was again produced by James Yeoburn and Stuart Matthew Price for United Theatrical, Katy Lipson for Area Entertainment and Music & Lyrics in association with Festival Theatre, Edinburgh. This is also where she met Oliver Ormson, and they now live together and own a cat named Edgar.
In December 2017, she performed in the musical production of The Christmasaurus. The production starred Tom Fletcher, Giovanna Fletcher, Harry Judd and Matt Willis.
In February 2018, it was announced that Fletcher would reprise her role as Beth in the 40th anniversary tour of Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds.
Fletcher took on the leading role of Veronica Sawyer in at The Other Palace in London from 9 June to 4 August 2018. Due to popular demand and a sold out run, the production transferred to the West End at the Theatre Royal Haymarket from 3 September to 24 November 2018.
On 6 February 2019, Fletcher announced via her social media platforms that she would be returning to Les Misérables as Fantine on the West End for a 16 week run from 10 August to 30 November 2019 at the Gielgud Theatre, in a fully staged concert adaptation of the musical. Fletcher also portrayed Fantine in, which was broadcast live to cinemas.
Fletcher played the role of Fantine in the new production of Les Misérables beginning 18 December 2019 at the Sondheim Theatre. She was due to be in the role until 25 July 2020 however, her run was cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
She is planned to lead the company of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cinderella, with a set opening in April 2021 at the Gillian Lynne Theatre in London.
Music
Fletcher has produced two singles, "Running Through Rivers" and "The Way We Were". She performed to benefit Sheytoons at the St. James Theater, as well as Ramin Karimloo on his 2012 Road to Find Out tour. In 2012, she performed the official 2012 Summer Olympics song with her brother, Tom.Fletcher is featured in Alex Day’s 2013 album Epigrams and Interludes on the songs covering "Poison" and "This Kiss". Fletcher can also be seen in The Vamps' music video for their cover of McFly's "That Girl". In 2014, Fletcher had featured in Daniel Koek's album High in the song "Remember Me". Koek was a colleague and fellow cast member of Fletcher's in Les Misérables.
Her most successful video on YouTube, currently with 1.5 million views, is a live interpretation together with her brother Tom Fletcher of the McFly song "Love Is on the Radio".
Fletcher released her first solo album When The Curtain Falls on 30 March 2018. It was released via musical theatre concert and record producers Club 11 London and accompanied her first four solo concerts at Cadogan Hall, London, on 31 March and 1 April 2018.
Writing
In April 2015, Fletcher released her first book, All I Know Now: Wonderings and Reflections on Growing Up Gracefully, based on her blog of the same name. The non-fiction book focuses on stages of Fletcher’s life as a teenager and passes on life lessons and advice through highlighting her own mistakes and struggles as she grew up. Her book was a number one Sunday Times bestseller and remained in the top ten list for seven weeks.In June 2015, Fletcher officially announced that she had started writing a new fiction novel, titled On The Other Side, which was published 14 July 2016. In March 2017, Fletcher announced her second novel All That She Can See, which was published 13 July 2017. In October 2017, she announced her third novel, When the Curtain Falls, which was published on 12 July 2018. In October 2018, Fletcher announced her fourth novel In the Time We Lost, which was published on 17 October 2019. Fletcher is due to publish her first children's book Into the Spotlight on 17 September 2020 based on Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild.