Jodie Gillies

Jodie Gillies is a dynamic singer/actor who completed her Diploma of Performing Arts at the Nepean College of Advanced Education, Sydney in 1983. In the same year she was cast as one of the daughters in the Victorian State Opera’s production and consequent tour of Pirates of Penzance. She then appeared in Camelot with Richard Harris followed by the role of Marta in Stephen Sondheim's Company and Vikki Fowler in King of Country, both for the Sydney Theatre Company.

In October 1985 Jodie won the inaugural Australian Contemporary Singing Competition at the Sydney Opera House. Jodie starred in Australia Day Live, the Network Ten Bicentennial extravaganza. Jodie then went on to begin the first of three musical engagements at the Theatre Royal in Sydney, all of which would include the honour of creating her roles in the Premiere Australian seasons, these being Les Mis, Chess and Aspects of Love. Firstly she played Eponine in the amazing original Australian production of Les Miserables (which also featured Phillp Quast as Jjavert and Anthony Warlow as Enjolras) and her performance as the waifish Eponine won her wide acclaim as did her ensuing role as Aldonza in The Man of La Mancha with Daryl Somers. Jodie has also appeared in cabaret at Kinsela’s with Glen Shorrock in It’s One for the Money and Two for the Show displaying her comedy and mimicry talents and more recently with David McLeod at Don Burrow’s Supper Club at the Regent Hotel.

Jodie then went on to play the lead role of Florence Vassy in the musical Chess to standing ovations and then toured to Queensland as Jess in Lipstick Dreams. Jodie was also awarded the prestigious Musical Theatre Performer of the Year by the Variety Club in 1991. Jodie has also toured with her own production The Other Woman which marked her debut as a writer and director. This show also took her to New York in 1992, where it was very well received. From there Jodie went on to play the role of Giulietta Trapani in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Aspects of Love with Delia Hannah, Kevin Colson and Peter Cousens in both Sydney and Melbourne. Jodie also joined the cast of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, taking over the starring role of the Narrator from Tina Arena and playing opposite David Dixon at Sydney's Her Majesty's Theatre. Jodie also performed in Love Lemmings at the Tilbury Hotel in Sydney. In late 1995, Jodie performed her second self written show called A Soldier's Song which tells the story of her Grandfather during the war years. She based the show on some diaries that her Grandfather had left behind from the war plus some of the classic tunes from around that time.

Jodie’s television credits include The Ray Martin Show, A Country Practice, Home and Away, The Money or the Gun, Live n' Sweaty, Hey Hey It’s Saturday, the Steve Vizard Show and Once in a Blue Moon, a celebration of Australian Musicals. Jodie has also released a self titled solo album featuring songs from Les Miserables, Aspects of Love, Chess, Miss Saigon and more.

Jodie currently lives in Sydney, is married to Maurice Levine and has two sons, Brayden and Rylan.

information fromThe Jodie Gillies Information page

For more Jodie, as well as the home page mentioned above, you can also visit Brad and Michelle's Jodie Gillies page.

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