JULIETTE CATON

Juliette attended Redroofs Theatre School on a full scholarship from 11-18 years of age. 

Juliette made her West End debut at the age of 11 in the Original Cast of Les Miserables. She is best known on stage for creating the role of ‘Bertrande de Rols’, in the original West End cast of Martin Guerre, which won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical. Juliette created the role of ‘Virginia’ opposite Steve Balsamo in the world premiere of Eric Wolfson’s Poe, and played ‘Catherine’ in a specially revised version of Pippin at the Bridewell. 

Juliette’s acting theatre credits include ‘Titania’ in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Derby Playhouse), ‘Kelly’ in Dummy Run, a one woman play (Orange Tree, Richmond), ‘Miranda’ in The Tempest (Edinburgh Festival) and ‘Klara’ in Wedekind’s lost play Musik (Theatre Royal, Plymouth).

Juliette’s film career began at the age of 13, when she was directed by Martin Scorsese as ‘Christ’s Guardian Angel’ in The Last Temptation Of Christ. Aged 14 she starred opposite Charlie Sheen playing ‘Heidi’ in the adventure epic Courage Mountain, produced by Michael & Joel Douglas. Juliette also played ‘Mary’ in Mechant Garçon, ‘Ali’ in Small Time Obsession ‘Blanche’ in Two Nudes Bathing – a Cannes Film Festival Jury Award Winner.

On TV Juliette’s roles include ‘Carla’ in The Gemini Factor, ‘Flo Brompton’ in Shrinks, ‘Janet Scholes’ in The Bill, ‘Kim Sullivan’ in Dream Team, ‘Louise’ in Island (which she also choreographed), ‘Julie Kemp’ in Ellington, ‘Andrea Gibbs’ in Casualty,  ‘Luce Wilkes’ in Pie In The Sky, Fern in Murder In Mind, ‘Anne Shanks’ in Exchange of Fire, ‘Contessina D’Medici ‘in Seasons Of Giants, Godith in Cadfael, Alicia in Lady Audley’s Secret, Helene in Monsignor Renard, ‘Esme’ in Shine On Harvey Moon and ‘Rifka’ in Wall Of Silence.

Having performed extensively for 20 years, Juliette retired from performing, having trained for several years as a Vocal Coach - beginning a life long passion for coaching performers.

Juliette has worked as both an Acting & Dialogue Coach on various films including Never Let Me Go (Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield, Kiera Knightley) and Molly Moon (Celia Imrie, Raffey Cassidy, Dominic Monaghan).

She is an inaugural faculty member in her role as Head of Voice & Musical Theatre at Kingsclere Performing Arts College since it founded in 2017 and is Director of School Of The Arts (SOTA) which she founded in 2005 to bring outstanding performing arts training to the children and young people of Berkshire, with a 20 year history of giving bursaries and scholarships to many pupils who have gone on to embark on successful performing careers. 

“Without the financial support I received, which allowed me to access my training as an actress, I simply would not have had the career I have enjoyed. I believe we have to do more to remove the socio-economic barriers that exist and do all we can to make the arts accessible for everyone; from taking classes - to training for the industry - to engaging in the arts as the life blood of our lives.”