Born:
June 17, 1983
in
Lisburn
Best Known For:
Winning reality talent show How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?
Early-life:
Born on June 17, 1983, in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, Connie lived in Dorset until she was six, when the family moved to Haverfordwest in Pembrokeshire. There, as a teenager, she joined a local operatic society and a youth theatre. After appearing in several touring productions (including Pendragon, which went to Japan), Connie won a scholarship to the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, graduating in 2005 with a First Class degree in Musical Theatre.
Career:
Connie's early TV credits include Jane MacDonald's series Star for a Night and BBC Children In Need, and she landed her first professional job in 2005 in panto. However, real fame came a year later when she won BBC talent contest How Do You Solve a Problem like Maria?, landing the leading role in Andrew Lloyd Webber's West End musical The Sound of Music. Since then, she has taken part in the 2007 Concert for Diana, and a revival of the musical They're Playing Our Song, opposite Alistair McGowan. She made her TV acting debut in ITV one-off drama Caught in a Trap and had a recurring role in Casualty. She joined a touring version of The Sound of Music in 2009 and returned to the stage in the spring of 2012 in a revival of Leonard Bernstein's Wonderful Town.
Quote:
'My voice now has a creak. I still have melody in it but I've gone from a high soprano to an alto, and that precludes certain roles in musical theatre.'
Trivia:
In 2011, Fisher was forced to scale back her singing commitments when she was diagnosed with congenital sulcus vocalis (holes in her vocal cords).