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Jackie Clune: Billy Elliot
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Jackie Clune stars in the critically acclaimed production of Billy Elliot currently playing at the Victoria Palace Theatre. Based on the smash-hit British film and with music from legendary singer-songwriter Elton John, Billy Elliot is one of the must-see musicals of the West End. Ticketmaster spoke to Jackie about playing Mrs Wilkinson and stamping her own mark on the famous role.
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Singer, radio presenter and actress Jackie Clune is to take over as Mrs. Wilkinson in Billy Elliot. She replaces Sally Dexter in the role of Billy’s dance teacher from 4 June at the Victoria Palace Theatre.
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Jackie is well known as an actress, writer, comedienne and radio broadcaster. Until recently she starred as Donna in the international tour of Mamma Mia! Currently she can be seen in the West End production of Billy Elliot playing the role of Mrs Wilkinson. Her non-fiction book, Extreme Motherhood:The Triplet Diaries was published in May 2006 by Pan Macmillan. Her first novel, Man of the Month Club, was published in the US by Penguin Putnam in August 2006. Quercus published here in September of last year.
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Super mum Jackie Clune can do it all...Currently appearing in The West End version of Billy Elliot, she manages to juggle the show with bringing up her 4 children. She chatted with Paul Phear about how she copes and singing Madonna songs with a Spice Girl....
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There are many sides to Jackie Clune, both professionally and personally. She has embraced very different roles and lifestyles:fringe actress, cabaret singer, West End leading lady, university drama tutor, radio broadcaster,outspoken cheerleader for lesbian causes and now a happily partnered heterosexual mother offour young children (three of them triplets). As a mother herself, she is embracing matriarchalstage roles with a particular kind of lived experience—but she ... knows what it is to have to shout above the crowd to be noticed. She’s appeared in Boy George’s Taboo playing a mum, then in Mamma Mia! playing another. And now she’s a perfect fit for yet one more, Mrs. Wilkinson, the brassy, ballsy dance teacher who sets Billy Elliot on his path toward becoming a professional dancer.
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Clune sang the theme tune and wrote additional material for the TV show Smack the Pony. She ... wrote the novel Man of the Month Club and Extreme Motherhood, an account of finding herself pregnant with triplets little more than a year after having her first child.[2]. On June 4, 2007, she took over the role of the dance teacher Mrs. Wilkinson in Billy Elliot the Musical.
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