RENOWNED theatre actress Annette McLaughlin will play ‘Mrs Wilkinson’ in the UK and Ireland tour of Billy Elliot — The Musical opening at the Theatre Royal Plymouth on Wednesday, February 24.

Martin Walsh will play ‘Dad’, Scott Garnham ‘Tony’ and Andrea Miller ‘Grandma’.

Annette McLaughlin’s many West End musical theatre credits include ‘Mrs Wormwood’ in Matilda, ‘Velma Kelly’ in Chicago and ‘Erma’ in Anything Goes.

Her numerous Royal Shakespeare credits include roles in The Jew of Malta, Measure for Measure and Volpone. Her Almeida theatre credits include Lysisitrata and The Odyssey.

Other theatre credits include roles in High Society at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre and Singin’ in the Rain at the National Theatre.

Martin Walsh is currently filming Rovers for Sky 1. His other TV credits include Game of Thrones, Downton Abbey and Coronation Street.

Scott Garnham’s many West End credits include Les Misérables and the original casts of I Can’t Sing and Made In Dagenham.

Andrea Miller has appeared in numerous musicals including Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, Blood Brothers and Annie.

The company also includes Phillip Aiden, Jonathan Alden, Leo Atkin, Tom Bainbridge, Deborah Bundy, Jack Butterworth, Luke Cinque-White, Donna Combe, Wayne Fitzsimmons, Nikki Gerrard, Abbie Louise Harris, Paul Hutton, Leon Kay, Charlie Martin, Kris Manuel, Barnaby Meredith, Daniel Page, Georgina Parkinson, Amy Rhiannon-Worth, Rachel Spurrell, Sebastian Sykes, Rafe Watts and Luke Zammit. The children of the first UK and Ireland tour will be announced soon.

Set in a northern mining town, against the background of the 1984/’85 miners’ strike, Billy’s journey takes him out of the boxing ring and into a ballet class where he discovers a passion for dance that inspires his family and whole community, and changes his life forever.

The show runs until Saturday, April 2.