Frances Ruffelle (born 29 August 1965 in London) is a Tony Award-winning musical theater actress who represented her country in Eurovision in 1994. Before Eurovision, she was already known for originating the roles of Dinah in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Starlight Express and more famously, that of Éponine in the musical version of Les Misérables on West End. Her performance as Éponine won her multiple awards and accolades, including the Tony Award in 1987 (for recreating the role for the Original Broadway Cast).
After finishing 10th in 1994’s Eurovision with the song "Lonely Symphony (We Will Be Free)", a UK Top 30 hit, she returned to her career on West End. Some of her stage roles include Roxie Hart in Chicago (2003–04, 2007), the title role in Piaf (2013), Bella in The A to Z of Mrs. P (2014), and Queenie in The Wild Party. She has also released solo albums, beginning with her debut album Fragile in 1994 and followed by Frances Ruffelle (1998), Showgirl (2004), Imperfectly Me (2010), and I Say Yeh-Yeh (2015).
Ruffelle was married to award-winning theater director John Caird (whom she worked with on Les Misérables) between 1990 and 1993 and had two children with him: the singer-songwriter Eliza Doolittle, and a son.