Janie Dee is a multi-award winning actress, singer and musical theatre performer. She recently starred in The Truth at the Apollo Theatre in London from 9 June to 12 September 2026 and The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui at the RSC in April and May 2026. Dee also starred in Noël Coward’s Fallen Angels at the Menier Chocolate Factory in London; in Beautiful World Cabarets at Charing Cross Theatre; and in Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends at the Gielgud Theatre.
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Her work on stage has earned her the Olivier, Evening Standard and Critics’ Circle Best Actress Awards for the leading role in Comic Potential in the West End and on Broadway as well as the Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical for Carousel at the National Theatre.
She has worked extensively with writer and director Alan Ayckbourn, originating the roles of JC 333 in Comic Potential, Joanna in House and Garden, and Amanda in Dreams from a Summerhouse. She appeared in Woman in Mind at the Vaudeville in 2009. Her work with Director Peter Hall includes Much Ado About Nothing, Betrayal and Design For Living.
Lead roles in classic West End musicals include: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike at Charing Cross Theatre; Follies at the National Theatre; Cats; My One and Only (Olivier Award Nomination); Mack and Mabel; and audiences outside London have been able to enjoy her performances in many shows including her starring role as Dolly Levi in Hello Dolly! at the Curve Theatre, Leicester for which she received a TMA UK Theatre Award for Best Performance in a Musical this year.
Recent dramatic roles include The Motive and the Cue (National Theatre); Hand to God (Vaudeville Theatre); Irina Arkadina in Chekov’s The Seagull (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Eugene O’Neill’s Ah, Wilderness! (Young Vic); 84 Charing Cross Road (Salisbury Playhouse); Blithe Spirit opposite Angela Lansbury and Charles Edwards (Gielgud Theatre); Michael Frayn’s Noises Off at The Old Vic and in the West End; and Lucy Kirkwood’s NSFW at the Royal Court, which earned her a fourth Olivier nomination.
Her film credits include Me and Orson Welles, Harold Pinter: A Celebration and Dare to be Wild.
Her television credits includes: Chimeric, Crashing, In Love With Shakespeare, Death in Holy Orders and The Murder Room and House of Cards.
Janie is a leading light in the resurgent cabaret scene and regularly champions new musical theatre writing.
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See Janie Dee take on Marilyn Monroe, John F. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald in newly released images for Torben Bett’s Speculations
Speculations extended until 17 January 2027 at the Marylebone Theatre as new character portraits released
See Janie Dee and cast in rehearsals for the world premiere of Torben Betts’ political thriller Speculations, directed by Trevor Nunn
Full cast for Speculations announced, with Jolyon Coy and Natalie Dunne joining Janie Dee
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