Anita Harris, a classically trained singer, moved easily into the world of pop. Her classical background stood her in good stead when she performed Bernstein’s Mass at the Barbican for the composer. Anita has performed leading roles in a wide range of hit plays including: my Cousin Rachel, Stepping Out, Bell Book and Candle and Ruth Rendell’s dark drama House of Stairs. She is a famous Grizabella of Cats (her performances are lauded by special exhibit in the Theatre Museum of the Performing Arts). Anita’s BBC2 TV special The Television Machine was the hit of Montreaux Festival and her innovative long running one-woman stage show the Act won seventeen theatre awards and Video of the year.

She broke all box office records at the 2000 seater Manchester palace theatre in the Millennium Peter Pan. Anita’s performance as Pan was described by critics as “exquisite magic, energy, and power. Brilliant!”

Films and plays include the classic farces Carry on Doctor and Follow That Camel. She portrayed Beatrice Lillie in Remember Jack Buchanan, which won the Golden Palm at the New York Film Festival. On stage she co-starred with Simon Ward in the smash hit stage production Double Double. Pantomime has been a favourite part of her theatre career. The Stage Magazine has described her as “The finest Principal Boy of our times.”

Anita holds many gold and silver disc trophies for international chart successes and a double gold for two million plus sales of her record breaking hit ‘Just Loving You’. Sony released a sell-out 52 track retrospective.

Anita is currently recording three new albums while The Essential Anita Harris remains a consistent best seller. She has starred frequently at the London Palladium. In France her open-air concert performances at the Cannes Palm Beach Casino earned her the soubriquet “The Flaming Comet.” Her first television award participation was The Big Band Show with the Ted Heath Band, which won the Golden Rose of Montreaux for BBC Television. She has performed seven Royal Command Performances, several at the request of the Royal Household, in the persona of Vesta Tilley. Anita’s international record sales are in the multi-millions, she is a songwriter in her own right, a celebrity columnist, a published critic, and a hit cookery book authoress. Her work with Thames Television is famous, from her seven year teaming with David Nixon on Magic Box to her own top rated children’s television programme and a citation and Gold Awards from the Canadian Government “its exceptional quality, ingenuity and the values it set for children.”

Anita’s video and book Anita Harris-Fizzical! charted number one and she repeatedly returns to the summer record charts top five with Trains and Boats and Planes on the Best of Bacharach. Among her trophies are awards for Performer of the Year, Concert and Cabaret Performer of the Year and she has topped the TV time’s reader’s poll as Most Popular Female Television Entertainer. She is a recipient of the BACS Gold Badge career tribute from the Academy of Composers and Songwriters. In February 2003 she was chosen as the first woman President of the Heritage Foundation for the Arts and Entertainments.

During her two year presidency, she presided over thirty innovative theatre pieces at the Grosvenor House raising funds for charity staging comedy and drama events tributing John Lennon, Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and the memories of many stars, with outstanding success. Anita is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Most recently she portrayed Miss Hannigan in the national tour of Annie and reprised her performance as Mavis the tap teacher in Stepping Out to open the theatre season at the Theatre Royal, Lincoln. She has recently returned from concerts in Hong Kong and Amsterdam performing her concert act and the dark play thriller of the year. Anita is currently recording two new albums and filming the title role in the pilot of Verity Lake, a Victorian detective series. Anita’s website is presently being re-designed and re-constructed with new film clips and will return in approx four weeks including “35 things you may not know about Anita Harris.”

Previous company credits; Come on, Jeeves! Mrs Spottsworth - 2008.