Rachael Wooding

Rachael Emma Wooding (born 27 September 1978) is an Olivier Award winning English born musical theatre performer, best known for her performances in We Will Rock You, playing Meat and Scaramouche. She began her career in musicals in Germany – such as Cats and Starlight Express. After West End success in Saturday Night Fever and Fame, she went on to play Amber in the original London cast of Hairspray the Musical. Wooding left Hairspray in October 2008. She then performed the title role in Evita the Musical on the UK tour.

From March 2011, she featured as Mary Delgado in the West End production of Jersey Boys, before leaving the cast after a year to concentrate on other projects; sometimes as a singer in function band Bloomfield Avenue. In October 2012 she returned to We Will Rock You to play principal Scaramouche alongside Oliver Tompsett as Galileo.

Career Wooding is a 5' 4" mezzo-soprano. Wooding trained at the Bird College of performing arts, and has been in musicals from a young age. She appeared on Britain's Got Talent in 2016. For her audition, she sang "With You" from Ghost the Musical and in the semi-final she sang "Gravity". Her semi-final performance led her to receiving fourth in the public vote and ultimately, being eliminated from the competition.

Her TV roles include: Coronation Street, 2008 (as Beautician) and 2011 (as Mandy) Doctors, 2015 (as Shawna Roper) Girlfriends, 2018 (as Desk Air Steward)

Her Musical Theatre roles include: Title Role NotesPeter Pan Mermaid Qdos Entertainment Fat Friends The Musical Joanne / Pippa U.K. Tour Spirit of the Dance Spirit U.S. Tour Cats Demeter/Bombalurina/Rumpleteazer Hamburg Starlight Express Pearl the Observation Car Germany Fame Serena West End Footloose Ariel UK Tour Loveshack AJ UK Tour Saturday Night Fever Annette West End We Will Rock You Meat West End Hairspray Amber Von Tussle West End Evita Eva Perón UK tourBright Lights, Big CityAmandaLondonJersey BoysMary DelgadoWest End We Will Rock You Scaramouche, Meat West EndStreet Of DreamsRita Fairclough and Ida BarlowManchester Wonderland (musical) Alice UK TourWell-Behaved WomenMary MagdaleneLondonAnother Night Before ChristmasKarolBridge House Theatre Pretty Woman: The Musical Kit De LucaPiccadilly Theatre, Savoy TheatreStanding at the Sky's EdgeRoseSheffield, National Theatre, Gillian Lynne Theatre