Chloe Hawthorn

Chloe Charlotte Hawthorn (born 17 August 2002) is a British child actress from Havering most known currently for playing the titular role of Matilda Wormwood in Matilda the Musical she shared the role with: Lucy-Mae Beacock, Hayley Canham, Elise Blake, Cristina Fray and Lara Wollington.^[1]

Hawthorn lives in Essex and used to attend Beverly Marks Stage School, she also does numerous musical theatre workshops at Spirit Young Performers Company.^[2] Hawthorn was in the original cast of the West End production of The Wizard of Oz and was featured in the original recording.^[3] In August 2012 Hawthorn took over playing the role of Matilda in Matilda the Musical, taking over from Cleo Demetriou, Jade Marner, Isobelle Molloy and Eleanor Worthington Cox.^[4] In her run, Chloe, alongside her fellow Matilda's, became judges on the CBBC and BBC One programme, Junior Masterchef and further along, she won a Mousetrap Award for Best Actress. Hawthorn finished her run in Matilda on 1 September 2013 and at the 100th Royal Variety Performance Hawthorn performed part of the song "Naughty" and also met the Queen and Prince Phillip.^[5] She also featured in the Oliviers 2013 performance alongside Lara Wollington, Elise Blake and Cristina Fray. She then joined the cast of The BFG landing the lead role of Sophie in 2014 at the Birmingham Rep alongside Madeleine Haynes and Lara Wollington, finishing her run in early 2015, which included recording a voiceover advert for Free Radio advertising the show. Hawthorn announced that she would be joining Spirit Young Performers Company in April 2016 after attending many workshops that received large numbers of views online and on YouTube.

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