Rebecca Wheatley
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Rebecca Wheatley (born 1965) is a British actress and musician.
Wheatley grew up in Teddington, Middlesex, where she went to St Catherine's convent school, before gaining her BA in English literature from the University of Wales, Lampeter.
She is best known as Amy Howard, the receptionist in the BBC's Casualty drama, a role which she played for four years until March 2001.
Although Wheatley originally trained as a classical singer, she has become well-known for various different types of popular music. She has sung in many of the cabaret venues in the West End of London, including The Café Royal, The Ritz and The Savoy. She has also sung at the Grand Opera House in Belfast in televised performances for BBC Northern Ireland, and at the Royal Albert Hall for The TV Times 'Christmas Carols with the Stars' event.
She has also played the character of Miss Sherman, the strict English teacher, in the West End musical, Fame.
She has recorded two Top 10 singles, Everlasting Love and Stay With Me Baby, as well as an album, Time Stands Still.
On Tuesday 4 December 2007 she was a guest on The Paul O'Grady Show where she talked about her 12.5 stone weight loss after following the Slimming World plan, to coincide with the release of her weight-loss DVD.
