Amy Nuttall

Amy Abigail Nuttall is an English actress and singer She is known for her roles as Chloe Atkinson in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale 20002005 housemaid Ethel Parks in the ITVPBS period drama Downton Abbey 20112012 and Little Jane Butterfield in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Nuttall was born in Blackburn Lancashire She was educated at Bury Grammar School for Girls and trained at Tring Park School for the Performing Arts She performed with the National Youth Music Theatre notably playing the lead role of Princess Ismene in Aurelius at the Tyne Opera House Newcastle and the Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh in August 1997 Nuttall is credited as the youngest actress to ever understudy and play the lead role of Christine in The Phantom of the Opera at age 17 National Tour she has sung at the Royal Albert Hall Royal Festival Hall and Old Trafford and won an edition of Celebrity Stars in Their Eyes as Sarah Brightman Shortly before leaving Emmerdale Nuttall appeared in Notes from New York at the Trafalgar Studios opposite Jon Lee and Julie Atherton In 2005 she released her debut album as a classical vocalist Best Days on EMI Classics and filmed music videos for her tracks Best Days No Greater Gift and a version of Scarborough Fair which was heavily requested on Classic FM TV Best Days peaked at number four in the UK classical chart and was nominated for Album of the Year at the 2006 Classic BRIT Awards In the same year Nuttall took part in the reality TV programme Celebrity Shark Bait which also featured Richard E Grant and Ruby Wax and appeared in Celebrate Oliver a musical special for BBC1 In the autumn of 2005 Nuttall toured the UK extensively as Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady to critical acclaim She shared the role with Lisa OHare on the National Tour due to other commitments with her first album The tour started on 5 October 2005 at the Palace Theatre in Manchester and ended on 12 August 2006 at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff In January 2007 Nuttall performed on BBC Radio 2s Friday Night is Music Night with an 80piece live orchestra and in May 2007 she joined the cast of the stage revival of BoeingBoeing at the Comedy Theatre opposite Patricia Hodge Mark Rylance and Roger Allam On 2 October 2007 Nuttall replaced Kim Medcalf in the London production of Cabaret at the Lyric Theatre transferring directly from her role in BoeingBoeing In April 2008 Nuttalls initial sixmonth contract was extended until the productions closure on 21 June Nuttall appeared in Hotel Babylon in 2009 as Melanie Hughes the new hotel receptionist In June and July 2010 Nuttall played one of the lead roles in the revival of the hit musical The Hired Man at the Octagon Theatre Bolton Later that year she returned to the Octagon Theatre Bolton to play Stella Kowalski in the Tennessee Williams classic A Streetcar Named Desire She shared the role of the Lady of the Lake in the UK tour of Spamalot which began on 18 October 2010 at the Edinburgh Playhouse From September 2011 Nuttall began appearing in the second series of Downton Abbey appearing as the new maid Ethel