Courtney-Mae Briggs
Acting
Biography
Courtney-Mae Briggs is a British actress who is best known for the musical theatre roles of Jennifer Parker in Back to the Future: The Musical and Peggy/Maria Reynolds in Hamilton. On film, Briggs played Melena Thropp, mother of Elphaba, in the two-part Wicked adaptation.
Known For
In the land of Oz, ostracized and misunderstood green-skinned Elphaba is forced to share a room with the popular aristocrat Glinda at Shiz University, and the two's unlikely friendship is tested as they begin to fulfill their respective destinies as Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West.
Wicked
As an angry mob rises against the Wicked Witch, Glinda and Elphaba will need to come together one final time. With their singular friendship now the fulcrum of their futures, they will need to truly see each other, with honesty and empathy, if they are to change themselves, and all of Oz, for good.
Wicked: For Good
Branded an enemy of the state, a cyborg supersoldier struggles to find a cause worth fighting for in a dystopian society where nothing is what it seems.