Caroline Sheen

Caroline Sheen is a Welsh actress who has played leading roles on stage in the West End alongside TV and film appearances. She won a Helen Hayes award for playing the role of Mary Poppins on the National Tour of America. Background Born and raised in South Wales, Sheen is married to actor Michael Jibson. She is a cousin of Michael Sheen. A member of the National Youth Theatre of Wales and Gwent Young People's Theatre, she was named as an Associate Artist of the Watermill Theatre in 2018. Sheen is also an Honorary Fellow of the University of South Wales. Career Sheen made her West End debut as Marty in Grease at the Cambridge Theatre. She went on to play Florinda in Into the Woods at the Donmar Warehouse and then went into the original cast of Mamma Mia! at the Prince Edward Theatre, understudying the lead role of Sophie. She created the role of Jennifer Gabriel in the world premiere production of The Witches of Eastwick at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Other West End credits include Eponine in Les Misérables at the Palace Theatre, Sandy in Grease at the Victoria Palace, and Truly Scrumptious in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the London Palladium Work at the National Theatre includes Philia in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum', Susan Walker in Once in a Lifetime Caroline played Mary Poppins in the UK Tour of the Cameron Mackintosh/Disney production. Caroline created the role of Clara Johnson in the European Premiere of The Light in the Piazza at Curve Theatre in Leicester. Sheen reprised her role as Mary Poppins in the US Tour of Mary Poppins. She returned to the UK in the role of Fantine in Les Misérables at the Queens Theatre, following that with Woman 2 in the London Premiere of Stephen Sondheim's Putting it Together at the St James Theatre. Sheen stepped in at last minute to play the roles of Alaura/Carla on several occasions in the Donmar Warehouse production of City of Angels. More recent work includes leading roles in Crazy for You and Under Milk Wood both at the Watermill Theatre, and Lilli/Kate in Kiss Me Kate at Kilworth House. In 2019, Sheen created the leading role of Violet Newstead in the West End Premiere of 9 to 5 at the Savoy Theatre. She left the role on 8 February 2020. During the 2020 pandemic, Sheen and her husband Michael Jibson played opposite each other as Guinevere and Arthur in an outdoor production of Camelot back at the Watermill Theatre TV work includes Hotel Babylon, Doctors and Torchwood.