Tamsin Carroll
Tamsin Georgina Carroll is an Australian actress. She is best known for her performances in musical theatre in Australia and the United Kingdom.
Early life
Carroll was born and raised in Sydney. Her parents are Australian actor Peter Carroll and Trisha, a former historian and archivist for the Sydney Theatre Company.Career
At the age of four, Carroll was an extra in the television western series Five Mile Creek which featured her father, as well as Nicole Kidman in an early role.Carroll became a member of the Actors Equity of Australia at the age of five, and made her professional debut two years later in a Sydney Theatre Company production of Six Characters in Search of an Author in 1987. Her early adult roles included Little Red Riding Hood in Into the Woods opposite her father as the Narrator/Mysterious Man and Vicki in Long Gone Lonesome Cowgirls. Carroll first received wide notice as Marianne Renate in the Australian tour of the Johnny O'Keefe jukebox musical Shout! The Legend of the Wild One which opened in Melbourne in 2000.
Subsequent roles as Nancy in Oliver! and Dusty Springfield in Dusty - The Original Pop Diva won Carroll multiple awards.
Other leading roles in Australian theatre and musical theatre include Marta in Company, Isabella in Measure for Measure, Rizzo in Grease – The Arena Spectacular, Tracy Lord in High Society, Rose in Bye Bye Birdie and Sheila in Hair, Vixen in The Threepenny Opera, Allie in Harbour and Olivia in The Republic of Myopia.
Carroll got her break in London when Cameron Mackintosh toured Oliver! to the West End in 2008. This saw her relocate to the UK permanently in 2012. Her British theatre credits include Emma Goldman in Ragtime and Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream, alternate Nancy in Oliver! and Ensemble in The Magistrate. She played the role of Ellen in the West End revival of Miss Saigon and Baroness Bomburst in the UK tour of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
In 2017 she appeared in the new musical Everybody's Talking About Jamie at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield. She subsequently reprised the role when the show transferred to London's West End, playing at the Apollo Theatre from 6 November 2017.
Carroll's television credits include EastEnders, Goddess and Carols by Candlelight. She also starred in the 1999 feature film Holy Smoke! opposite Kate Winslet.
In 2023, Carroll returned to Australia to perform alongside her father in Belvoir Theatre Company’s production of Into the Woods, which they had also previously performed in together with the Melbourne Theatre Company in 1998. They have also collaborated on the stage shows Harbour and The Republic of Myopia for the Sydney Theatre Company, and the 1988 miniseries Melba starring Hugo Weaving.
Carroll returned to the UK in July 2023, to perform in Chichester Festival Theatre's new musical Rock Follies.