Martine McCutcheon

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Martine Kimberley Sherrie McCutcheon (born Martine Kimberley Sherrie Ponting, 14 May 1976) is an English singer, television personality and actress.

McCutcheon's first television role was the role of Mandy in the television show Bluebirds in 1989.

She also had minor success as one third of the pop group Milan in the early 1990s, but it was her role as Tiffany Mitchell in the BBC's EastEnders that she is best known for, as well as her role in the 2003 romantic comedy Love Actually.

For the former she won the 1997 National Television Award, while for the latter she received the 2004 Empire Award and the 2004 MTV Movie Award.

She was written out of EastEnders at the end of 1998 and then embarked on a pop career, this time as a solo artist. McCutcheon's debut studio album You Me & Us (1999) peaked at number two in the UK, was certified platinum and spawned the UK number one single "Perfect Moment" and two other top 10 hits.

Her second studio album, Wishing (2000), was less successful, charting at number 25.

However, it produced two top 10 singles and was certified gold.

Her pop career stalled because of the poor reception of her third album, Musicality in 2002, which only reached number 55 in the UK and received silver certification.

She has since appeared on various television programmes, in films and on stage in My Fair Lady, where her portrayal of Eliza Doolittle won her a Laurence Olivier Award in 2002.

She released her autobiography Who Does She Think She Is? in 2000.

In 2017, she returned to music with the album Lost and Found, which peaked at number 17 in the UK, becoming her highest-charting record since her debut album.

Early life

Martine Kimberley Sherrie Ponting was born on 14 May 1976 at the Salvation Army Mothers' Hospital in the London Borough of Hackney to Jenny Ponting and Thomas "Keith" Hemmings. While in a relationship with Keith, Jenny experienced domestic violence, which continued for many years after their split. After one of many incidents in which he attempted to kill both Jenny and Martine, he was arrested and later charged and remanded in custody for six months. Jenny then met John McCutcheon, whom she later married. When Martine was nine, Keith contacted Jenny and asked for access to her. Jenny refused, prompting him to seek sole custody of Martine through the courts. He eventually lost the case, was denied any access to Martine until she was 18 and told that he could not apply for it again due to his past behaviour. Shortly after, her surname was changed to her stepfather's, McCutcheon. When Martine was sixteen, her mother gave birth to her half-brother, Laurence "LJ". Jenny and John eventually divorced and she married Alan Tomlin in 2000.

McCutcheon attended a nursery school in Colchester, Essex, and later the Shacklewell Infants' School in Hackney, where she performed in her first play Away in a Manger before progressing to the Shacklewell Juniors' School at the age of six, where she appeared in more plays, including Noah's Ark. At the age of five, she began attending extra dance classes and later enrolled in a dance school in Stoke Newington. Shortly before her tenth birthday, she successfully auditioned for a place at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts. However, because of the changing policy of the Inner London Education Authority (ILEA), she was no longer eligible for the grant she was supposed to receive for coming second in the audition and, with no financial support, she was forced to withdraw. Instead, she began to attend Italia Conti's Saturday lessons. Later, the Reeves Foundation, a Church of England charity based in Moorgate, offered McCutcheon a grant and she was able to enrol at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts. She finished school with nine GCSEs.

Personal life

McCutcheon was engaged to DJ Gareth Cooke, but broke off the relationship in 1996. She was also in a relationship with Jonathan Barnham, with whom she became pregnant in 1999, but suffered a miscarriage in the second month. McCutcheon married singer Jack McManus at Lake Como in September 2012. The couple had been dating since 2009. On 4 February 2015, she gave birth to a son, Rafferty Jack McManus.

In 2011, McCutcheon was diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), and six years later also Lyme disease. On social media, she shares her experiences with flare-ups of fibromyalgia and how this impacts her, such as slowing down her journey with weight loss.

In 2013, she was declared bankrupt by the Kingston upon Thames County Court with creditors including HM Revenue and Customs.

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Career

McCutcheon performed in an American television commercial for the drink Kool-Aid, which was followed by design assignments and bit parts in television shows at the age of 12. In the Anthony Newley-directed production of Stop the World – I Want to Get Off (1989), she performed Mandy in the television series Bluebirds (1989) alongside Barbara Windsor and Susan, Jane's sister (played by Denise van Outen), which was then transferred to the West End Lyric Theatre in Shaftesbury Avenue. In 1991 and 1992, this was followed by two celebrity appearances on the ITV police drama The Bill. McCutcheon appeared in Enya's music video for the song "Caribbean Blue." By the time she was 15, she was part of Milan's all-girl group, with two other students, and had earned a record deal with Polydor and a gig on tour as the warm-up act for the British boyband, East 17. Milan's were surprisingly fruitful. "Is It Love You" and "Lead Me On" charted in the top ten of the dance charts, with the former making it to the top 100 of the UK Singles Chart. However, they weren't able to make a living and disbanded.

McCutcheon was given a small part of Tiffany Raymond on the famous BBC soap opera EastEnders in 1994. Tiffany's role increased along with McCutcheon's fame, and 22 million viewers tuned in to see her last scenes in Albert Square in 1998, when her character was killed off in a special episode screened on New Year's Eve. In reality, McCutcheon had to leave the soap in order to begin a pop career, and her character's death was not viewed favourably by the actress as she had intended to return. McCutcheon has slammed the BBC's "Controller of Continuing Drama Series," Mal Young, who made the decision to kill her character after leaving the show. She accused him of unfairly treating her and bringing her role in the soap to an end, but that was only as punishment for leaving. Young has retaliated against McCutcheon, arguing that her dissatisfaction with him began only because she wanted her role in EastEnders open as a "safety net" in case her pop career fell apart, and she was not able to do so.

She was given the 1997 National Television Award for Most Popular Actress and the 1998 TV Quick Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of the character.

McCutcheon's first appearance on the charts came in 1995 on the dance team Uno Clio's minor dance number "Are You Man Enough." A promotional film was also made. She debuted with Virgin Records as a solo pop artist in 1999 and landed at number one on the UK Singles Chart with the song "Perfect Moment" (originally recorded by Edyta Górniak in 1997). You Me & Us, her debut album, was released in September. The British Phonographic Industry's Top Tensions Chart ranked at number two on the UK Albums Chart and was named platinum by the British Phonographic Institute (BPI). With two singles "I've Got You" and "Talking in Your Sleep" later that day, the album spawned two more top ten entries, with two singles "I've Got You" and "Talking in Your Sleep" featuring the double A-side "Love Me" an album track that was re-recorded for the Children in Need appeal, with all proceeds donated to the Children in Need appeal. In 2000, she was nominated for the British Award for Best Pop Act.

McCutcheon's sophomore album, Wishing, was less popular and debuted at number 25 in the United Kingdom in 2000. The album featured two singles: the number two hit "I'm Over You" and the follow-up song, a recreation of Donna Summer's "On the Radio" which debuted at number seven, spawned two singles. Despite peaking at just number 25, the album managed to sell around 250,000 copies and was awarded a Gold medal by BPI. In 2002, McCutcheon released her third album, Musicality, a Broadway-influenced cover album. By BPI, it ranked at number 55 in the UK and was rated silver. Her recording deal was terminated, and her pop career was stalled due to poor sales. The Collection, her two-CD best-of-album, was first introduced in September 2012.

McCutcheon's fourth studio album, Lost and Found, was released by BMG in August. "Say I'm Not Alone," it's lead single, was released on May 30, 2017. The album debuted at number 17 in the United Kingdom, putting McCutcheon's highest-charting record since You Me & Us to be on top of the charts.

McCutcheon appears regularly in pantomimes. In 2000, she appeared on The Knock on ITV as well as the British film Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang) in the UK. At the National Theatre in London, she continued to perform Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady. Despite missing numerous performances (citing health issues) and halting almost five months from the production's transfer to Drury Lane, she received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical at the 2002 festival.

McCutcheon hosted the National Music Awards for ITV in 2002, and she appeared in her first major film role in 2003. In the Richard Curtis romantic comedy Love Actually, in which the British Prime Minister played by Hugh Grant, the actress fell in love with McCutcheon's character. The film received rave reviews and it was a box office hit. McCutcheon went to America in the aftermath of the film's success, but a Hollywood career did not appear. Nevertheless, she received the MTV Movie Award for Best Trans-Atlantic Breakthrough Performer and the Empire Award for Best Newcomer at the 9th Empire Awards for her appearance.

She appeared in two episodes of BBC drama series Spooks in September 2005. McCutcheon appeared on ITV1 in December 2005, portraying a woman in love with a Muslim man (Art Malik), who marries him despite knowing he already has two wives. Moviemusic Mania, an ITV entertainment program, debuted and appeared on ITV's entertainment program in the same year. McCutcheon appeared in two independent films, Withdrawal and Jump!, as well as Agatha Christie's Marple television series "At Bertram's Hotel." She also served as a judge for the second series of ITV1's Soapstar Superstar. Her appearance on the show sparked controversy, with reports that she was increasingly critical and at times patronizing. Susan Penwarden appeared in an Art Plus fundraising event at the Whitechapel Art Gallery on March 8, 2007, alongside Natalie Press, Samantha Morton, and Rhys Ifans, and in January 2008, she appeared in the ITV soap Echo Beach as Susan Penwarden.

After making a few guest appearances on the show earlier this year, McCutcheon was announced as a panelist on the ITV daytime show Loose Women. She appeared in 2021 on the second series of The Masked Singer as Swan, and she was the third contestant to be unveiled.

Who Does She Thinks She Is published McCutcheon's autobiography, Who Does She Believe She Is? Martine McCutcheon: Behind the Scenes – A Personal Diary, was published by HarperCollins in 2000 and 2003. McCutcheon was one of many stars to be included in a 2004 promotional film for London's triumphant bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics. Martine McCutcheon: Dance Body, a fitness DVD, was released in December 2005.

Tesco, a supermarket chain, revealed in 2006 that they would use McCutcheon in a series of advertisements to promote a new green scheme for recycling used plastic carrier bags. Pan MacMillan's first book, The Mistress, was published in 2009, and she was released in 2009. She appeared in Danone's UK advertising campaign for its Activia yogurt brand from 2010 to 2011.

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