As a child, Fletcher played small roles on television and appeared in musical theatre in
London's West End in
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,
Mary Poppins and
Les Misérables. In 2011, she started a
YouTube channel called
ItsWayPastMyBedTime, later retitled
Carrie Hope Fletcher, which features music and
vlogs. She has no formal training in musical theatre.
Theatre '' in July 2004. Fletcher made her
West End debut as
Young Éponine in
Les Misérables at the age of seven in 2001. In 2002, she was part of the original cast of
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in the role of Jemima Potts, and in 2004 featured as Jane Banks in
Mary Poppins. Fletcher replaced
Danielle Hope as Éponine in
Les Misérables at the Queen's Theatre, London in June 2013. She is the only British actress to have played young Éponine, older Éponine and Fantine in the production. On
23 February 2014, Fletcher was presented the
WhatsOnStage "Best Takeover in a Role" award for her performance as Éponine. In November 2014, Fletcher took a hiatus from her role in
Les Misérables to join the cast of the national arena tour of ''
Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds'' in which she played the role of Beth, alongside
Jason Donovan,
Brian McFadden and
Shayne Ward. She next returned to
Les Misérables, playing Éponine for the musical's 30th anniversary gala performance on 8 October 2015. Fletcher played her final performance on 13 February 2016, at which time she was the longest-running Éponine in the London production's 30-year history. In 2017, she played the role of
Wednesday Addams on the UK tour of
The Addams Family. The production was produced by
James Yeoburn and
Stuart Matthew Price for United Theatrical and Music & Lyrics in association with Festival Theatre, Edinburgh. In December 2017, she performed at The Hammersmith Apollo in the musical
The Christmasaurus, based on her brother Tom Fletcher's novel of the same name. In 2018, Fletcher played Veronica in the Original West End Production of
Heathers: The Musical, the musical adaptation of the movie of the same name. The show originally opened at
The Other Palace before moving to the
Theatre Royal Haymarket. She also reprised her role as Beth in the 40th anniversary tour of Jeff Wayne's
War of the Worlds. In 2019, she returned to
Les Misérables as
Fantine at the Gielgud Theatre, in a
fully staged concert adaptation of the musical. Fletcher was announced to be playing
Cinderella in Andrew Lloyd Webber's
Cinderella, a retelling of the original fairytale, in February 2020. Prior to the announcement, she workshopped
Cinderella at The Other Palace Theatre in 2019. It opened in August 2021 to mostly positive reviews. Fletcher won the 2021
WhatsOnStage Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her performance in
Cinderella. The production closed on 12 June 2022, 8 months early. Fletcher and other cast members who were not present at 1 May's matinee were not informed of the closure until after the public announcement.
Writing In April 2015, Fletcher released her first book,
All I Know Now: Wonderings and Reflections on Growing Up Gracefully, based on her blog of the same name. The non-fiction book focuses on stages of Fletcher's life as a teenager and passes on life lessons and advice through highlighting her own mistakes and struggles as she grew up. Her book was a number one Sunday Times bestseller and remained in the Top 10 list for seven weeks.
Music Fletcher has produced two singles, "Running Through Rivers" and "The Way We Were". She performed to benefit the band Sheytoons at the St. James Theatre, as well as
Ramin Karimloo on his 2012 Road to Find Out tour. Fletcher is featured in
Alex Day's 2013 album
Epigrams and Interludes on the songs covering "
Poison" and "
This Kiss". Fletcher can also be seen in
The Vamps' music video for their cover of
McFly's "That Girl". In 2014, Fletcher had featured in Daniel Koek's album
High in the song "Remember Me". Koek was a fellow cast member of Fletcher's in
Les Misérables. Her most successful video on YouTube, currently with 1.7 million views (as of 23 April 2024), is a live interpretation together with her brother
Tom Fletcher of the
McFly song "Love Is on the Radio". Fletcher released her first solo album
When The Curtain Falls on 30 March 2018. It was released via musical theatre concert and record producers Club 11 London and accompanied her first four solo concerts at Cadogan Hall, London, on 31 March and 1 April 2018. In 2023, she embarked on her first solo UK concert tour, == Discography ==