Sally Julia Dexter is an English actress of stage and screen. She won the 1987 Olivier Award for Most Promising Newcomer for '' Dalliance''. Her other West End stage credits include the musicals '' Oliver!'' (1994), ''

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'' (2013). Her television credits include the ITV soap operas '' Night and Day'' (2001–2003) and ''

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'' (2017–2019, 2021–2022).

Career

Dexter was educated at Chiltern Edge School, King James's College (now Henley College) at Henley-on-Thames, and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Her many onscreen appearances have included ''

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'', and ''Family'', as well as the long-running '' Night and Day''. As a stage actress, Dexter has appeared in both straight plays and musicals in London's West End. In 1987, she won the

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for Most Promising Newcomer in Theatre, for her performance in the 1986 production of '' Dalliance''.olivier awards 1986
officiallondontheatre.co.uk, retrieved June 12, 2010 Her other credits include Nancy in Sam Mendes's 1994 revival of '' Oliver!'' at the

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. For her highly acclaimed performance in ''Oliver!'', she received an

nomination. The ''

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'' reviewer wrote: "If this 'Oliver!' creates any star, it should be RSC alumna Sally Dexter, whose blowsy, huge-voiced Nancy is the career-making performance this actress has long deserved." She also appeared in ''A Touch of Frost'' from 1994 until 2003. Other roles include Mrs. Wilkinson in ''

'' opposite Leon Cooke for 12 months, leaving the show to standing ovations, Lady Macbeth in '' Macbeth'' opposite

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, Anna in the original production of Patrick Marber's '' Closer'' and Regan in ''

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''. She spent several years playing roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company and at the Royal National Theatre, London. She starred in '' Bad Girls: The Musical'' at the

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, London in 2007, and can be heard on its original cast recording along with the

cast recording for ''Oliver!'', and as Madame Giry on the concept cast recording of Andrew Lloyd Webber's '' Love Never Dies''. She took over in the role of Mother Superior in the London Palladium production of ''

'' from September to October 2010. She co-wrote and created the three-part

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Career

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