Elaine Paige Net Worth

That production brought her to the attention of a broader public and was a catalyst for her career. She won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Performance of the Year and went on to originate the role of Grizabella in Cats. Paige’s version of the song “Memory” from the musical was a Top 10 hit. In 1985 she released, “I Know Him So Well” with Barbara Dickson (a song from the musical, Chess) that remains the biggest-selling record by a female duo. Elaine Paige made her Broadway debut in Sunset Boulevard in 1996, playing the lead of Norma Desmond, to critical acclaim. She also appeared in The King and I from 2000-2001, and six years later returned to the West End stage in The Drowsy Chaperone. Since 2004, she has hosted her own show on BBC Radio 2 called, Elaine Paige on Sunday. The demands of Paige’s career have meant she has never married. The closest she has come to settling down was with Sir Tim Rice, with whom she had a public 11-year affair with throughout the 1980’s, but it fizzled out after he failed to leave his wife.