Biography

Gina Beck is an English actress and singer known primarily for her roles in leading musical theatre productions. Gina is currently starring as Christine Daaé in Cameron Mackintosh's production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera in London's West End.

Gina successfully auditioned for an acting degree at The Central School of Speech and Drama in London, from where she graduated with a BA in Acting in 2004. Since graduation, Gina has had a number of small cameo roles on TV (Doctors, Sherlock Holmes and The Case of the Silk Stocking, etc.) and has done voice-over work for English Language teaching tapes produced by Peason Education.

Gina performed in opera and operetta during 2005 at Holland Park Opera (Puccini's Madame Butterfly and Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore) and the Buxton Opera House (Gilbert and Sullivan's Ruddigore and The Sorcerer.) In 2006 Gina Beck toured South Africa in The Merry Widow and in June of that year she made her West End debut as Cosette in Les Misérables at the Queens Theatre. She performed the role in the 21st anniversary celebration concert of Les Misérables which was broadcast on BBC Radio 2. After a year, Gina left Les Mis to create the lead role of Rebecca Warshowsky for the world première of the new musical Imagine This at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth in July 2007.

At Christmas time that year Gina appeared as Wendy Darling in the Rachel Kavanaugh production of Stiles and Drewe's Peter Pan the Musical at the Birmingham Rep.

Gina took over the principal role of Christine Daaé in The Phantom of the Opera at Her Majesty's Theatre in September 2008. Since that time she has also performed "The Phantom of the Opera" duet with Ramin Karimloo at Andrew Lloyd Webber's 60th birthday concert in Hyde Park. She has sung the duet "All I Ask of You" with co-star Simon Bailey on the Grand Staircase of the actual Opera Garnier in Paris (where Phantom is set) for CBS Television and the same song on the Alan Titchmarsh show on ITV1.