Valda Aviks

Ida Straus

Theatre includes: Ella in Cinderella: The Musical (Nuffield Southampton Theatres); Rachel in RAGS (Hope Mill Theatre); Grandma Addams in The Addams Family Musical (original UK tour); Mrs. Meeker in Funny Girl (Menier Chocolate Factory & Savoy Theatre); Barushka in Once (Dublin & Phoenix Theatre); ensemble and cover Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd (Chichester Festival Theatre & Adelphi Theatre); Mrs. Primrose in On The Twentieth Century (Union Theatre); Granny in Into The Woods (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Jeanette in The Full Monty (English Theatre, Frankfurt); Bird Woman in Mary Poppins, Mad in Sink Or Swim (UK tour); Madame Arcati in Blithe Spirit (English Theatre, Vienna); Grandma Gellman in Caroline Or Change (National Theatre); Zandra, Irene and Mary in Jerry Springer The Opera (National Theatre, Cambridge Theatre & UK tour); Florence Foster Jenkins in When Florence Met Isadora, La Goulue in La Goulue Of The Moulin Rouge (Rosemary Branch Theatre); Eudora in The Witches Of Eastwick (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); Rebecca in Tanz Der Vampire (Raimund Theatre, Vienna); Mrs Potts in Beauty And The Beast (Dominion Theatre); Widow Corney in Oliver! (London Palladium); ensemble and cover Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd (Leicester Haymarket); Carlotta in The Phantom Of The Opera (Her Majesty’s Theatre); ensemble and cover Mme Thernadier in Les Misérables (Palace Theatre); The Gumbie Cat in Cats (New London Theatre).

Television and Film includes: The Trip, Helga in Doctor Who, Betty in Bad Penny, American Tourist in Little Britain, Marge in Words of Love (BBC); Melissa Rickman in Nightbreed (Morgan Creek Productions).