Rhonda Burchmore

From Sydney to London’s West End, to the depths of the South African jungle, Rhonda Burchmore has endeared herself into the hearts of all Australians.

With a career spanning over 40 years, this vivacious, flame-haired beauty continues to turn heads wherever she goes and draw thunderous applause wherever she performs. As the years go by, she just keeps going from strength to strength.

Highlights of Rhonda Burchmore’s illustrious career include performing on London’s West End in Sugar Babies featuring Mickey Rooney and Ann Miller, Stop The World I Want To Get Off with Anthony Newley, starring opposite David Atkins in the original Hot Shoe Shuffle and opening Crown Casino with her cabaret spectacular Red, Hot & Rhonda – playing to over 60,000 people! Rhonda starred as Velma Von Tussle in the acclaimed smash Hairspray on its national tour in 2022/23 and 2024/25 saw her star as Sister Mary Lazarus in Sister Act: The Musical

Other productions include lead roles in Follies, Into the Woods, Mame, Easter Parade, Annie Get Your Gun, The Boyfriend, Urinetown, They’re Playing Our Song, Song & Dance, Guys & Dolls, Respect- A Musical Journey of Women, Little Orphan Trashley, Eurobeat, Calendar Girls, La Cage Aux Folles, Jerry’s Girls, The Drowsy Chaperone  and as Tanya in the original Australian production of Mamma Mia.

In 2020, Rhonda appeared on I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, winning the hearts of Australians and placing third., Rhonda’s other television credits include Darby and Joan (ABC), Fam Time ( Ch7) and the Nine Network’s Love Child. There are also numerous performances on long running variety shows Hey Hey It’s Saturday, The Don Lane Show, The Mike Walsh Show, The Midday Show, Good Morning Australia with Bert Newtown, Spicks and Specks, Studio Ten and Carols by Candlelight. Rhonda made her film debut in the role of Kate in The Pirate Movie, was a featured guest on Da Kath & Kim Code and more recently as Cheryl in The Wedding Party.

In 2016 Rhonda co-produced and starred in the outrageous TWINS with Trevor Ashley; which after a sell-out premiere season at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, headlined the Adelaide Cabaret Festival the same year. In 2017 Rhonda produced, co-wrote and starred in ABBA-solutely Fabulous with best friend Lara Mulcahy, which continues to play sell out engagements across the country. The two dynamos rater returned with a new Rhonda Burchmore Production Partners in Crime.

In 2014 Rhonda was awarded the OAM for her service to the performing arts and community. In 2014 Rhonda won the Cabaret Icon Award at the International Adelaide Cabaret Festival.

Rhonda’s cabaret shows include My Funny Valentine, Fever, Everybody Loves Rhonda, Legs 11, Cry Me A River- The World Of Julie London and Vinyl Viagra.

In 2002 and 2012 Rhonda won Female Vocal Performer of The Year at the MO Awards and ACE Awards.

In 2011, Rhonda released her auto-biography Legs 11: My Life in Front of the Lights and Backstage, with New Holland Publishing. It was rereleased in a 2018 with additional chapters.

Rhonda has recorded five albums including A Red Hot Swingin Christmas, Pure Imagination, Midnight Rendezvous, Live At The Melbourne Concert Hall and Cry Me A River – The World of Julie London with ABC Radio