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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 1987-1990 Japanese cast
  • 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 Stockholm cast
  • Siobhan McCarthy — 1990-1991 West End 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
  • Silvie Paladino — 1997-1999 West End Cast
  • Rosa Jeddler — 1997 Florida cast
  • Rachel Beck - 1997-1998 Australian tour
  • Juliet Lambert – 1997-1999 Broadway
  • Honoka Suzuki — 1997-2001 Japanese Tour
  • Dianne Pilkington — 1997-1999 West End Cast (understudy)
  • Florence Lacey – 1997 and 2002 Broadway production
  • 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
  • Gunilla Backman – 1997-1998 Germany Cast and 1999-2000 West End Cast
  • Stephanie Tschöppe – 1999 Antwerp tour
  • Carmen Cusack – 1996-1997 West End Cast (understudy), 1999 Dublin tour, 2002 San Francisco tour and 2001-2003 West End Cast
  • 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, Lea Salonga and Judy Kuhn – 2006 Broadway revival
  • Sophia Ragavelas – 2006-2007 West End Cast 
  • Jana Werner — 2006-2007 German production 
  • Aki Nagisa — 2007 Japanese tour 
  • Maoko Imai, Naoko Yamazaki -2007-2009 Japanese tour
  • Nikki Renee Daniels, Rona Figueroa — 2008 Broadway production understudies
  • 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 – 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
  • Lea Salonga – 2010: 25th Anniversary Concert at O2
  • 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
  • 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 tour
  • Genevieve Leclerc – 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
  • Na-Young Jeon – 2013-2014 West End Cast and 2015-2016 South Korean Revival
  • Genevieve LeClerc — 2013 Toronto Cast
  • Cho Jung Eun – 2013 South Korean 25th Anniversary tour and 2015-2016 and 2023-2024 South Korean revivals
  • Ele Millistfer — 2013 Finland, the Tampere production
  • Caissie Levy — 2014 Broadway production
  • Ele Millistfer - 2014 Finnish production (Tampere City Theatre)
  • 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
  • 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 2023-2024 West End Cast
  • 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
  • Lucie Jones - 2021 Sondheim Theatre All Star Concert and 2021 and 2023 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
  • Lina - 2023-2024 South Korean revival

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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