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Who Played Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion

Eliza Doolittle is a role in Pygmalion, a play that opened Off-Broadway in 2018.

One of Shaw's most beloved plays, the basis for the musical, My Fair Lady. Professor of phonetics, Henry Higgins, makes a bet that he can train a bedraggled Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to pass for a duchess at an ambassador's garden party by teaching her to assume a veneer of gentility; the most important element of which, he believes, is impeccable speech. The play is a sharp lampoon of the rigid British class system of the day and a commentary on women's independence. Written by Bernard Shaw.

11 actors have played Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion.

View full cast of Pygmalion

Performer Production Opened
Lynn Fontanne Broadway Pygmalion 1926
Norma Downey Broadway Pygmalion 1938
Gertrude Lawrence Broadway Pygmalion 1945
Amanda Plummer Broadway Pygmalion 1987
Kirstie Pooley Broadway Pygmalion 1987
Madeleine Potter Off-Broadway Pygmalion 1991
Claire Danes Broadway Pygmalion 2007
Karen Walsh Broadway Pygmalion 2007
Midori Francis Off-Broadway Pygmalion 2018
Patsy Ferran West End Pygmalion 2023
Synnøve Karlsen Off-Broadway Pygmalion 2025

Other Roles in Pygmalion

Role Production Opened
Alfred P. Doolittle Off-Broadway Pygmalion 2018
Bystander Off-Broadway Pygmalion 2018
Clara Eynsford-Hill Off-Broadway Pygmalion 2018
Colonel Pickering Off-Broadway Pygmalion 2018
Eliza Doolittle Off-Broadway Pygmalion 2018
Freddy Eynsford-Hil Off-Broadway Pygmalion 2018
Henry Higgins Off-Broadway Pygmalion 2018
Mrs. Eynsford-Hill Off-Broadway Pygmalion 2018
Mrs. Higgins Off-Broadway Pygmalion 2018
Mrs. Pearce Off-Broadway Pygmalion 2018

“Eliza Doolittle” Also Appears In

Production Type Year
My Fair Lady Broadway 2018

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