Chelsie Padley ©

Chelsie has been treading the boards along the South Coast since the age of seven having played various amateur roles, Maria in West Side Story, Serena in Fame, Laurey in Oklahoma, Anita in West Side Story, for Curtain Call and Anna in The Rink, Annie in Annie and Tap Dancer in Thoroughly Modern Millie for BROS, Oliver in Oliver, Isabelle in Pirates of Penzance, and Sandy in Grease of Arabesque School Of Performing Arts. Her first professional performance was in 1999 in a Jim Davidson Pantomime Production at Bognor Regis Butlins as a Babe/Villager in Cinderella.

She is known to her younger TV audience as ‘Louise’ from BBC’s top children’s programme ‘The Story Of Tracy Beaker’ where she spent three amazing years in series 1, 2 and 3. Other TV credits include BBC’s ‘Children In Need Party With Pudsey’ and an interview on the ‘ Tracy Beaker’ DVD Series 2.

In December 2006 Chelsie joined Spillers Pantomimes to play ‘Fairy Kind Heart’ in ‘Beauty and the Beast’. Having loved every minute of Panto, she was delighted when asked to return for the following three years, 2007/08 production of ‘Wonderful World Of Oz’, 2008-09 and 2009-2010 productions of ‘Wizard Of Oz’ playing ‘Good With/Aunt Belle’ at venues all over the UK. For her fifth year with Spillers, Chelsie is extremely delighted to be playing ‘Cinderella’ at the end of this year, in Gravesend, Kent.

 

Chelsie took her first dance exam at the age of four and continued her training in all disciplines including Ballet, Tap, Modern, Jazz and Contemporary. Chelsie’s full time education was spent at Stonelands School Of Ballet And Theatre Arts in Hove and Arabesque School Of Performing Arts where she trained in vocational subjects as well as academic. After successfully achieving nine GCSE’s, Chelsie continued her musical theatre training at Doreen Bird College, Kent in 07/08. She then spent her last year of training 08/09 at Brighton Institute of Modern Music (BIMM) studying Vocals, graduating with a Diploma.

Now at age 18 having finished her education Chelsie has moved to London and is loving every minute. She has been doing various acting jobs including the famous ‘Goodwood Revival’ and is currently presenting the live children’s show ‘Barney The Dinosaur’ touring in Nigeria and Ghana throughout 2010.

Chelsie is very excited about her future and is hoping her luck will stay with her.....

Chelsie Padley © Maeleigh Photography