Little Nell

Australian dancer, pop singer and actress, born on 24 May 1953 in Sydney, Australia. Her father, Ross, was a newspaper columnist and gave her the nickname Little Nell. She moved to London in the early 1970s, where she sold clothes on a market stall, and performed as a busker and tap dancer. In 1973, she played Columbia in the original cast of the Rocky Horror Show, famously reprising her role in the film version, The Rocky Horror Picture Show. She also appeared in other films and on TV, including Derek Jarman's Jubilee (1978), The Alternative Miss World (1980), Richard O’Brien's Shock Treatment (1981) and Oscar-winning drama The Killing Fields (1984). Between 1975 and 1978 Little Nell released several singles on A&M Records and Charisma. During the 1980s she ran a very successful New York nightclub, Nell's. She wrote for Tina Brown's 'Talk' magazine in the late 1990s.