Laura Elizabeth Campbell (born 24 May 1953), better known as Nell
Campbell or by her stage name Little Nell, is an Australian actress,
singer and club owner. She is best known for her role as Columbia in
the 1975 film The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and the original stage
play from which it was adapted. In 1978, Campbell released her debut
EP, The Musical World of Little Nell (Aquatic Teenage Sex & Squalor),
through A&M Records. She appeared as Nurse Ansalong in the 1981 film
Shock Treatment.Campbell was born in Sydney, to Ruth and Ross
Campbell, a writer, who referred to her as "Little Nell" (after a
character in Charles Dickens' The Old Curiosity Shop) in his family
life column in the Sydney Daily Telegraph. She has three siblings:
Sally, Patrick, and Cressida. Her older sister, Sally, was a property
master, set designer and subsequently a fashion designer, while her
younger sister, Cressida Campbell, an artist, and her older brother,
Patrick, a solar engineer at the University of New South Wales. She
began dancing at the age of 10 to keep healthy following being
diagnosed with hepatitis A. She was called Laura E. Campbell until
around 17, when she went by the nickname "Sonny" (pronounced to rhyme
with "Donny"), short for "Sonata". She attended high school at
Abbotsleigh School for Girls in Sydney, supporting herself as a
waitress.Campbell decided to use the name "Little Nell" as a stage
name after her arrival in Britain in the early 1970s with her family.
She sold clothes at Kensington Market; her stall was next to Freddie
Mercury's.[citation needed] She also worked as a busker and as a soda
jerk in a café, where her tap dancing is often noted as the reason
why she was cast as Columbia in the original production of The Rocky
Horror Show following an impromptu audition. She reprised the role in
The Rocky Horror Picture Show, released in 1975, and starred as Nurse
Ansalong in the 1981 sequel, Shock Treatment. Nell Campbell Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter