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