Sofia Escobar

Sofia Escobar
Born	Sofia Escobar 1984 Guimarães, Braga district, Portugal
Alma mater	Conservatório de Música do Porto
Occupation	Actress, singer
Years active	2003-present

Sofia Escobar (born 1984 in Guimarães, Portugal) is a soprano singer and actress. She is best known for being part of the cast in West End musicals, in London. She performed the role of Maria in West Side Story'. Her most acclaimed role was Christine Daaé, the lead character in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera.

Sofia Alexandra Cepa Escobar Ferreira da Silva was born on November 29, 1984 in Guimarães, district of Braga, Portugal.

She studied at Conservatório de Música do Porto in city of Porto, Portugal. Afterwards she continued her studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, in London.

She had a scholarship that paid for her tuition. Her parents could not afford her studies in London, they took bank loan to pay for her stay, a mortgage on their house. Sofia worked as a waitress in a restaurant near the school after classes for 5 pounds an hour, until 2am.

She is married to Spanish actor Gonzalo Ramos since September 21, 2013 and they have a son, Gabriel Ramos, born on March 6, 2014.

Sofia Escobar's first experience in the West End musicals was with the The Phantom of the Opera, after having been the lead understudy actress in 2007 and 2008.

She played the lead Hanna Gzelak character in the Portuguese musical "Scents of Light".

She performed in the West Side Story musical, taking the role of Puerto Rican girl Maria.

From 2010 to 2013 she played the role of Christine Daaé, the leading character in The The Phantom of the Opera at Her Majesty's Theatre in Haymarket, London. She is one very few non native English speakers to have played Christine Daaé.

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