An up and coming award winning West Midlands actress has cast a spell on producers of the forthcoming Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and landed a role in the new blockbuster west end production.

Central School of Speech & Drama trained Cherrelle Skeete from Kings Norton in Birmingham has already begun rehearsals for the mammoth production which opens in June, and stars 42 other actors – included fellow Midlands actress, Esther Smith from Stourbridge.

Cherrelle, who this week was also nominated for a Rising Star at the Screen Nation Awards, is already becoming a familiar face on stage and screen  – most recently on TV Cherrelle played Lenny Henry’s sister in the TV drama ‘Danny and the Human Zoo’, based on Dudley born comedian’s upbringing in The West Midlands and his subsequent rise to fame in the 1970s.

However as well as TV, Cherrelle’s stage credits are undeniably credible too.  Pictured here playing Young Jamie in Naomi Wallace’s And I And Silence at the Finborough Theatre.  She then made her West End debut in the Lion King, and went on to play Sister Sally in The Amen Corner at the National Theatre, directed by Rufus Norris, in 2013.  Later that year she played Viv in the hit BBC drama, Ordinary Lies, written by Danny Brocklehurst.

In July 2015 she returned to the National Theatre to play Katya in Three Days in The Country (as seen in main article picture), an adaptation of Ivan Turgenev’s passionate, moving comedy A Month in The Country, by Patrick Marber.

West Midlands Arts Advocate

Back in Brum, Cherrelle has been a long standing active advocate for the arts, which was recognised last year when she was awarded the Outstanding Contribution to the Arts Award at the 2015 West Midlands Women of The Year Awards.

You can find out more about Cherrelle at her own website www.cherrelleskeete.com or give her a follow on Twitter @CherrelleSkeete

Harry Potter

Harry Potter and he Cursed Child, which as been developed with JK Rowling and based on a new story she has written especially for the stage,  will feature a grown up Harry Potter, but the play focusses on the story of Harry’s son Albus and the family legacy he is destined to carry forward..

However of you are planning on getting tickets for Harry Potter an the Cursed Child – you may need to learn a trick or two to magic up a ticket.  The show is now booking well into 2017, with very limited availability.

You can muggle through the complicated ticket booking process at www.harrypottertheplay.com