Sophie Evans

Sophie Evams grew up in Tonypandy in the Rhondda Valleys of Wales with younger sister Beth and their parents, Michelle and David. Sophie appeared on BBC-1's Over the Rainbow (2010), Andrew Lloyd Webber's search for a Dorothy; she placed runner-up. After that she attended Arts Educational Schools Chiswick, studying musical theatre. She then went on to become Alternate Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz", performing one show a week at the London Palladium. After a year as alternate, Sophie took on the role full-time performing eight shows a week. She has sung at various venues across the UK, including The Royal Albert Hall, The Royal Opera House (for the Olivier Awards), The Wales Millennium Centre, The Millennium Stadium, Liberty Stadium, Cardiff City Stadium, The Motorpoint Arena Cardiff, Manchester Bridgewater Hall, and Headingley Stadium. She has been featured in numerous television program, including a week-long stint on S4C's cariad@iaith/love4language, where she learned Welsh with other Welsh personalities. ITV also followed her for a year during the "Wizard of Oz" run for a documentary called "Dare to Dream". Sophie appears as part of The Marmalade Sandwich in Simon Pegg and Nick Frost' The World's End (2013). She has also had her own TV Christmas Show on BBC One Wales, where she performed with the BBC National Orchestra and special guests Michael Ball and Only Boys Aloud.