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Allyson Brown (born 1984 or 1985, sometimes credited as Allyson Ava-Brown) is a British actress and singer. She is best known for playing Beatrice in Bear Behaving Badly . [1] Allyson Brown has also appeared in Secret Diary of a Call Girl , [2] Sea of Souls , Holby City and Earth 2 . [3] Allyson Brown won a MOBO Award for being the Best Unsigned Act in 1998. Allyson was in the 2008-2009 Les Misérables London Production playing Fantine. [4] She also went on The Voice and sang "Somebody Else's Guy" but did not get through. [5] In 2015 Allyson starred in the critically acclaimed theatre production The Etienne Sisters, [6] written and directed by Che Walker, and in 2019 assumed the role of Angelica Schuyler in the West End production of Hamilton. [7]

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