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Martine Kimberley Sherri Ponting (born 14 May 1976), usually known as Martine McCutcheon, is an English singer, television personality, actress and occasional radio presenter. McCutcheon 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 made her a household name in the UK. McCutcheon left the series at the end of 1998 to embark on a pop career, this time as a solo artist. She had international success with her No. 1 single "Perfect Moment". She released three albums to varying degrees of success, but her pop career stalled due to the poor reception of her third album in 2002. She has since appeared in various television programmes, in films such as ''Love Actually'' as Natalie, 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. ==Early life== McCutcheon was born as Martine Kimberley Sherri Ponting at the Salvation Army Mothers' Hospital in Hackney, London, when her mother, Jenny Tomlin, was 19. On one occasion, her biological father, Thomas Hemmings, reportedly dangled her by the ankles from a balcony 30 feet up in the air and threatened to drop her unless her mother did as he wished. This incident formed one of McCutcheon's earliest memories of him. Hemmings left when she was two years old, but he would return periodically to threaten her mother, so her early years were spent running and hiding in order to escape him.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Martine McCutcheon )〕 When McCutcheon was nine, her mother won sole custody and also obtained an injunction which prohibited Hemmings from seeing McCutcheon until she was 18. At the age of 10, Martine took her stepfather's surname when her mother met and married window cleaner John McCutcheon. Martine McCutcheon has a younger half-brother LJ. She knew she wanted to be a performer from an early age but, as her family could not afford the fees for a drama school, she had to find an alternative method to learn her trade. McCutcheon met a woman at a local dance class who had been to the Italia Conti stage school who suggested the school would be a good environment for McCutcheon. After a persuasive letter from McCutcheon, a Church of England trust agreed to sponsor her. She trained after school and every Saturday (learning tap, ballet, jazz and drama) in order to catch up with the more privileged children who were competing with her for a place at the prestigious school.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Martine McCutcheon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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