Celinde Schoenmaker

Dutch soprano and actress Celinde Schoenmaker is a musical theatre star known for her definitive interpretations of Andrew Lloyd Webber heroines. She most recently performed as Christine in Love Never Dies in Concert at the London Palladium in October 2026.

About Celinde Schoenmaker

Celinde Schoenmaker was born in 1989 in Dordrecht, Netherlands. She studied Liberal Arts for a year at Oxford Brookes University, before returning to the Netherlands to pursue formal drama training.

Schoenmaker graduated summa cum laude from the Fontys School of Fine and Performing Arts in Tilburg in 2012, earning the prestigious Jacques de Leeuw Prize as the most talented student of that year.

Theatre credits

Schoenmaker made her West End debut on 14 January 2013 as Fantine in Les Misérables at the Sondheim Theatre, where she earned critical acclaim for her interpretation of the iconic role.

She returned to the West End in September 2015 as Christine Daaé in The Phantom of the Opera at His Majesty’s Theatre (then Her Majesty’s Theatre) – a role she has since revisited multiple times.

Her other theatre credits include Christine Daae in Love Never Dies in Concert at the London Palladium, Sarah Brown in Guys & Dolls at The Bridge Theatre and Jenny Lind in Barnum at the Menier Chocolate Factory. This comes alongside leading roles in Marry Me a Little at The Barn Theatre and Jesus Christ Superstar In Concert at Theatre Orb, Tokyo.

Schoenmaker has also performed in concert productions alongside Ramin Karimloo in Doctor Zhivago at the London Palladium.

Film and Television credits

Her most notable film and television credits include Renate Blauel in Rocketman (Paramount), as well as film roles in Hong Kong Love Story, Wormeater, and TV appearances in Red Light and Our House.

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