Marina Prior

Marina Prior is an Australian soprano and actress with a career mainly in musical theatre. From 1990 to 1993, she starred as the original Christine Daa in the Australian premiere of The Phantom of the Opera, opposite Anthony Warlow and later Rob Guest.

Prior was born in Port Moresby in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea, Australia, where her father was working in the shipping industry. Her parents were members of the local Gilbert and Sullivan Society. The family returned to Australia when she was a young child and she grew up in Melbourne, where she attended Syndal South Primary School and Korowa Anglican Girls School. She began to take singing lessons at the age of twelve and also learnt piano, flute and guitar.

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