Tamsin Carroll


Tamsin Georgina Carroll is an Australian actress. She is best known for her performances in musical theatre in Australia and the United Kingdom.

Personal life

Carroll was born and raised in Sydney. Her parents are Australian actor Peter Carroll and Trisha, a former historian and archivist for the Sydney Theatre Company.
Carroll met her British husband while performing in the West End revival of Oliver!.

Career

At the age of five, Carroll was an extra in the television western series Five Mile Creek which featured her father. She made her professional stage debut in a Sydney Theatre Company production of Six Characters in Search of an Author in 1987. Her early adult roles included Red Riding Hood in Into the Woods and Vicki in Long Gone Lonesome Cowgirls. Carroll first received wide notice as Marianne Renate in the Australian tour of the Johnny O'Keefe jukebox musical Shout! The Legend of the Wild One which opened in Melbourne in 2000.
Subsequent roles as Nancy in Oliver! and Dusty Springfield in Dusty - The Original Pop Diva won Carroll multiple awards.
Other leading roles in Australian theatre and musical theatre include Marta in Company, Isabella in Measure for Measure, Rizzo in Grease – The Arena Spectacular, Tracy Lord in High Society, Rose in Bye Bye Birdie and Sheila in Hair, Vixen in The Threepenny Opera, Allie in Harbour and Olivia in The Republic of Myopia.
English theatre credits include Emma Goldman in Ragtime and Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, alternate Nancy in Oliver! and Ensemble in The Magistrate.
Her film and television credits include EastEnders, Goddess, Carols by Candlelight and Holy Smoke!.
She played the role of Ellen in the West End revival of Miss Saigon and Baroness Bomburst in the UK tour of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
In 2017 she appeared in the new musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield. She subsequently reprised the role when the show transferred to London's West End, playing at the Apollo Theatre from 6 November 2017.

Awards