Courtney-Mae Briggs is a British actress who is best known for the musical theatre roles of Jennifer Parker in Back to the Future: The Musical and Peggy/Maria Reynolds in Hamilton. On film, Briggs played Melena Thropp, mother of Elphaba, in the two-part Wicked adaptation.
Set in the Land of Oz before the events of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the film explores the early relationship between Elphaba, the future Wicked Witch of the West, and her schoolmate Galinda, who becomes Glinda the Good.
