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A list of actresses who have portrayed Fantine in all productions of Les Miserables whether onscreen or onstage.

List of Portrayers[]

Musical[]

  • Rose Laurens† – Original French Concept Album, Original Paris stage cast
  • Patti LuPone – Original London cast
  • Randy Graff – Original Broadway cast
  • Debra Byrne – Original 1987-1989 Australian cast, 1989: Complete Symphonic Recording
  • Katarzyna Chałasińska, Anna Dauksza, Elżbieta Rakowska – 1989-2000, Musical Theatre in Gdynia
  • Hiromi Iwasaki - Original Japanese cast and 1987-1988 and 1997-2001 Japanese Tours
  • Yumiko Ishitomi† – Original Japanese cast and 1987-1988 and 1991 Japanese casts
  • Hiromi Itoh — Original Japanese Cast and 1987-1990 and 1994 Japanese Tours and 1994 Japanese Blue Cast
  • Jackie Marks — 1986-1987 West End Cast
  • Rose MacDonald – 1987 Glasgow cast
  • Riki Gal - 1987 Tel Aviv Highlights
  • Rebecca Storm — 1987-1989 West End Cast
  • Maureen Moore — 1988-1989 Broadway production
  • Susan Gilmour – 1988 1st USA tour, 1990 Canada tour, 1998 3rd USA tour
  • Elinore O'Connel – 1988 2nd USA Tour
  • Susan Dawn Carson – 1989 and 1992 Broadway production
  • Hollis Resnik - 1989 US Tour
  • Christy Baron - 1989 US tour, 1990 and 1995 Broadway cast
  • Lisa Vroman - 1989-1991 3rd US Tour
  • Grania Renihan — 1989-1990, 1996-1997, 2001-2002 West End Cast
  • Christine Rothacker – 1989 Vienna-Austria tour
  • Sona MacDonald – 1989 Vienna tour
  • Jun Anna – 1989-91 Japanese tour
  • Laurie Beechman† — 1990 Broadway Cast and 1996 US Tour
  • Kelly Ground - 1990 2nd US Tour
  • Erin Freel – 1990 Fredericton cast
  • Karin Glenmark – 1990 Original Sweden Cast
  • Siobhan McCarthy — 1990-1991 West End Cast
  • Marina Prior - 1990-1993 Australian Cast
  • Peta Toppano - 1991 Australian tour
  • Jenna Russell - 1991-1992 and 2000-2001 West End Casts
  • Pia Douwes, Betty Vermeulen – 1991 Dutch Cast
  • Maya Hakvoort - 1991/1992 Original Dutch cast (understudy) and 1998-1999 Duisberg (Germany) Cast
  • Louise Pitre – Original Canadian cast, 1991 Paris revival
  • Ria Jones – 1992 Manchester Highlights and 2000 West End Cast
  • Ruthie Henshall – 1992-1993 and 1996 West End Cast, 1995: 10th Anniversary Concert, 1997: The Chelmsford Concert
  • Paige O'Hara – 1992 and 1995 Broadway Casts
  • Mary Gutzi - 1992 Broadway
  • Gema Castaño – 1992-1994 Madrid Cast
  • Claire Moore – 1993 West End Cast
  • Rachel York - 1993 Broadway
  • Kim Jeung Sook and Yoon Bok Hui — 1993 Korean Highlights
  • Melba Moore – 1993-1996 Broadway
  • Donna Kane — 1993 and 1997 Broadway
  • Lindsey Danvers — 1994-1995 West End Cast
  • Debbie Gravitte — 1994 Broadway
  • Yuko Ema — 1994 Japanese Red Cast and 1994 Japanese Tour
  • Andrea McArdle - 1994 Broadway Cast
  • Kristen Behrendt - 1995 US tour
  • Jane Bodle - 1995 and 2000-2001 Broadway
  • Lisa Capps — 1995 Broadway, 1996-1997 US tour
  • Jacquelyn Piro Donovan – 1995 and 2001 Broadway
  • Catherine Hickland — 1996 Broadway
  • Susie McMonagle — 1996 Broadway production
  • Carmen Cusack – 1996-1997 West End Cast (understudy), 1998-1999 UK, Ireland and International Tour, 2002 San Francisco tour and 2001-2003 West End Cast
  • Clare Bonsu - 1998-1999 UK, Ireland and International Tour (understudy)
  • Silvie Paladino — 1997-1999 West End Cast
  • Dianne Pilkington — 1997-1999 West End Cast (understudy)
  • Rosa Jeddler — 1997 Florida cast
  • Rachel Beck - 1997-1998 Australian tour
  • Juliet Lambert – 1997-1999 Broadway
  • Honoka Suzuki — 1997-2001 Japanese Tour
  • Florence Lacey – 1997 and 2002 Broadway production
  • Gunilla Backman – 1997-1998 Germany Cast and 1999-2000 West End Cast
  • Hilde Norga - 1998-1999 Flemish (Belgian) cast and 2001 West End Cast
  • Tristanne Lambrou — 1998 Dover tour
  • Cornelia Luna – 1998 Toronto, 2013 Toronto cast (understudy in 2013)
  • Joan Almedilla - 1999-2001, 2005-2006 US 3d National Tour
  • Coralie Legrand – 1998 Québec cast
  • Alice Ripley – 1998 Broadway production
  • Delia Hannah - 1998 Australian Tour
  • Julie James – 1998 Malta Cast
  • Stephanie Tschöppe – 1999 Antwerp tour
  • Helen Sjöholm - 1999-2001 Swedish Production
  • Rachel York – 2000 Broadway
  • Elena Roger – 2000 Argentina, Bueno Aires, Spanish Tour
  • Thursday Farrar - 2000-2001 US tour
  • Alessandra Maestrini - 2001 Brazil Cast
  • Kare Kauks — 2001 Original Estonian Production
  • Elinor Collett - 2002 West End Cast
  • Pia Aun – 2002 Commissioning Mexican scene
  • Lauren Kennedy – 2001-2003 Broadway Production
  • Jayne Paterson – 2002 US tour, 2003 Final Broadway cast
  • Rumi Iryo — 2003 Japanese Violet Cast and 2003-2006 Japanese Tour
  • Marcia — 2003 Japanese Light Blue Cast and 2003-2006 Japanese Tour
  • Yumiko Takahashi — 2003 Japanese Green and Orange Cast and 2003-2004 Japanese Tour
  • Joanna Ampil – 2003-2005 and 2007-2008 West End Casts
  • Tonya Dixon - 2003-2003 US Tour
  • Rebecca Thornhill – 2004 Copenhagen and Powderham Castle tour
  • Vera Bolten - 2004-2005 Germany Cast
  • Kerry Ellis – 2005-2006 West End Cast
  • Sylvia Grab — 2005 - 2009 Japanese tour
  • Minako Honda† — 2005 Japanese Tour (Original, but due to her sudden death, her part had been given up)
  • Daphne Rubin-Vega – 2006 Broadway revival
  • Nikki Renee Daniels, Haviland Stillwell, Rona Figueroa — 2006-2008 Broadway production understudies
  • Sophia Ragavelas – 2006-2007 West End Cast 
  • Jana Werner — 2006-2007 German production
  • Lea Salonga – 2007 Broadway revival and 2010: 25th Anniversary Concert at O2
  • Judy Kuhn – 2007-2008 Broadway revival
  • Aki Nagisa — 2007 Japanese tour 
  • Maoko Imai, Naoko Yamazaki -2007-2009 Japanese tour
  • Simone - 2007 The Muny Production, St. Louis Cast
  • Genevieve Charest — 2009 Quebec tour
  • Melora Hardin — 2008 Hollywood Bowl
  • Allyson Brown – 2008-2009 West End Cast
  • Nurlaila Karim — 2008-2009 Dutch revival cast
  • Rebecca Seale – 2008-2009 West End Cast understudy and 2009-2011 West End Cast
  • Natalie Day — 2009-2011 West End Cast (understudy)
  • Madalena Alberto – 2009-2010 25th Anniversary UK Tour, 2010: Les Misérables Live! cast album
  • Amanda Jane (AJ) Callaghan — 2010-2013 West End Cast (understudy)
  • Betsy Morgan – 2010-2012 25th Anniversary US Tour
  • Virginia Carmona – 2010-2011 Madrid, 2011-2012 Barcelona
  • Edyta Krzemień — 2010-2011 Roma Theater in Warsaw
  • Therese Karlsson - 2010-2012 Turku, Finland production
  • Annica Edstam - 2011 Swedish Production
  • Rina Chinen – 2011-2021 Japanese Tour, 2013 25th anniversary Japanese tour and 2017 Japanese 30th Anniversary Tour
  • Seiko Niizuma — 2011 Japanese tour
  • Miou Kazune – 2011-2017 and 2021 Japanese Tours, 2013 25th anniversary Japanese tour and 2017 Japanese 30th Anniversary Tour
  • Caroline Sheen – 2011-2012 West End Cast
  • Sierra Boggess –  2012-2013 West End Cast
  • Simona Di Stefano — 2012 Bologna production
  • Charlotte Maltby - 2013 The Muny Production, St. Louis Cast
  • Genevieve Leclerc – 2013 25th Anniversary US Tour
  • Anna Sato — 2013: 25th anniversary Japanese tour and 2013-2015 Japanese Tour
  • Elena Medina – 25th Anniversary 2013-2015 Spain tour
  • Celinde Schoenmaker – 2013, 2014-2015 West End Cast
  • Genevieve LeClerc — 2013 Toronto Cast
  • Cho Jung Eun – 2013 South Korean 25th Anniversary tour and 2015-2016 and 2023-2024 South Korean revivals
  • Na-Young Jeon – 2013-2014 West End Cast and 2015-2016 South Korean Revival
  • Ele Millistfer — 2013-2014 Finnish production (Tampere City Theatre)
  • Caissie Levy — 2014 Broadway production
  • Erika Henningsen — 2015 Broadway Cast
  • Patrice Tipoki — 2015 Australian cast, 2016 West End Cast, 2016 Dubai Cast and 2016 Singapore cast
  • Rachelle-Ann Go — 2015-16 and 2020 West End Casts, 2021 Sondheim Theatre All Star Concert, 2016 Asian Tour and 2022 UK, Ireland and International Tour and 2025 All Star Concert Arena Spectacular World Tour in Abu Dhabi in United Arab Emirates and Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane in Australia
  • Sanne Den Besten - 2015-2016 West End Cast understudy
  • Montego Glover, Desi Oakley — 2015-16 Broadway cast
  • Alison Luff — 2016 Broadway Cast
  • Ai Ninomiya - 2017 Japanese 30th Anniversary Tour and 2017-2021 Japanese Tour
  • Lucy O'Byrne - 2016-17 West End Cast
  • Carley Stenson - 2017-19 West End Cast
  • Nele-Liis Vaiksoo - 2017 Estonian revival cast
  • Ele Millistfer - 2017 Estonian revival cast
  • Melissa Mitchell - 2015 Broadway cast (understudy), 2017 US 30th Anniversary Tour
  • Mary-Kate Moore - 2017 US 30th Anniversary Tour
  • Kacau Gomes - 2017 Brazil Cast
  • Morena Valdés - 2018 México City Cast
  • Emma Hatton - 2018 Guernsey Concert
  • Katie Hall - 2018-2022 UK and Ireland Tour and 2023-2025 West End Cast and 2024-2025 All Star Concert Arena Spectacular World Tour in Manchester and Newcastle in England, Gothenburg, Stockholm and Malmö in Sweden and Amsterdam in The Netherlands
  • Megumi Hamada - 2019-2021 Japanese Tour
  • Carrie Hope Fletcher - 2019 Gielgud Theatre All Star Concert, 2019-2020 West End Cast and 2020-2021 Sondheim Theatre All Star Concert, 2019: Les Misérables: The Staged Concert
  • Rebecca Wright - 2019 Auckland Music Theatre & Amici Trust
  • Liv Cochrane - 2021 Invercargill Musical Theatre
  • Lucie Jones - 2021 Sondheim Theatre All Star Concert and 2021, 2023 and 2024-2025 West End Casts
  • Chanice Alexander Burnett - 2021-2022 West End Cast
  • Aoife Haakenson and Summer Priest - 2021 Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts Production
  • Ava Brennan - 2022-2023 West End Cast
  • Lauren Drew - 2022-2023 UK and Ireland Tour
  • Haley Dortch - 2022-2024 US Tour
  • Channah Hewitt – 2023-2024 Dutch and Flemish (Belgian) Revival Casts and 2024-2025 All Star Concert Arena Spectacular World Tour in Belfast in Ireland, Glasgow and Aberdeen in Scotland, Sheffield in England, Luxembourg, Geneva and Zurich in Switzerland, Trieste and Milan in Italy, Copenhagen in Denmark and Oslo in Norway
  • Anouk Van Laake - 2023-2025 West End Cast understudy
  • Lina - 2023-2024 South Korean revival
  • Teal Wicks - 2024 The Muny Production, St. Louis Cast
  • Claire Pérot - 2024 Paris Revival
  • Lindsay Heather Pearce - 2024-2025 US Tour
  • Natsumi Kon, Erika Ikuta and Haruka Kinoshita - 2024-2025 Japanese Tour

Movies[]

  • Mary Maurice – 1909 film
  • Maria Ventura – 1913 films
  • Gretchen Hartman – 1917 film (credited as Sonia Markova)
  • Sandra Milovanoff – 1925 film
  • Florelle – 1934 film
  • Florence Eldridge – 1935 film
  • Valentina Cortese – 1948 film
  • Sylvia Sidney – 1952 film
  • Danièle Delorme – 1958 film
  • Giulia Lazzarini – 1964 mini-series
  • Michele Dotrice – 1967 mini-series
  • Anne-Marie Coffinet – 1972 mini-series
  • Blanca Sánchez – 1973 series
  • Angela Pleasence – 1978 film
  • Évelyne Bouix – 1982 film/1985 mini-series
  • Uma Thurman – 1998 film
  • Charlotte Gainsbourg – 2000 mini-series
  • Emiko Hagiwara – Shōjo Cosette anime 2007
  • Anne Hathaway – 2012 film
  • Lily Collins – 2018 mini-series
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