Career
She trained at London"s Central School of Speech and Drama. television Thorpe also starred in a celebrity edition of The Weakest Link as Madame Morrible, in which she was voted off in the first round. She also played Fleur in Absolutely Fabulous, an eccentric and somewhat odd work-colleague who spoke in a very precise fashion.
Along with working extensively with Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, she has also appeared in BBC2"s Alexei Sayle"s Stuff, A Bit of Fry and Laurie.
British Broadcasting Corporation"s Casualty, Independent Television"s The Bill and Midsomer Murders. She also notably played Beverley Osman in the British Broadcasting Corporation children"s comedy drama Number Sweat starring boyband North and South.
She worked extensively at the Royal National, in London"s West End and two Shakespeare seasons at the Regent"s Park Open Air. She was in the original revival cast of Cabaret as Fraulein Kost at the Lyric in London on 22 September 2006.
Lovett in the national tour of Stephen Sondheim"s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, originated the role of Ida Arnold in the Almeida "s original musical, Brighton Rock, and played the role of Madame Thenardier in the hit musical, Les Misérables.
She recently returned to the Open Air, Regent"s Park to play the parts of Lottie Childs and Patricia Fodor in Timothy Sheader and Stephen Mear"s revival of Crazy Foreign You, for which she was nominated for the 2012 goers" Choice.