Jo Gibb
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Jo Gibb (born JoAnn Gibb on April 18, 1976, in Bo'ness, Scotland, UK) is a Scottish theatre actress best known for her role of Rumpleteazer in the Cats video and as Pearl the Observation Car in Starlight Express.
She also played Belle in Beauty and the Beast and appeared in the Rocky Horror Show.
Jo first began her training at The Dance School of Scotland in Glasgow, then continuing in Epsom at Laine Theatre Arts.
Her first appearance in a London West End show was at the New London Theatre playing Rumpleteazer in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Cats. She also understudied and played the roles of Demeter and Jemima in that same production. Later she was offered the role of Rumpleteazer in a video production of Cats.
Some of her other theatre work includes Dance Captain/Swing on Disney's Beauty and the Beast, at the Dominion Theatre, London; Columbia in the national tour of The Rocky Horror Show; and Pearl, in the final cast of Starlight Express at the Apollo Theatre, Victoria.
Jo recently appeared as Hell Let Loose and Rosalind in Beautiful and Damned at the Lyric Theatre, also understudying and playing the lead role of Zelda Fitzgerald, and as Truly Scrumptious in the musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.[1]
She is currently married to West End Star Alex Bourne and she gave birth to a daughter named Josie Hannah Bourne on September 28th 2007.
