Grizabella

Grizabella is an old, gray, feral she-cat. She lives in an alley not far from the Junkyard. She was played by Elaine Paige in the original London production and was played by Leona Lewis in the Broadway Revival (and later, Mamie Parris).

Description
Physically, Grizabella is described as having a coat that's "torn and stained with sand" and eyes whose corners "twist like a crooked pin". She has a long tail, of which she is very fond, but that she is also prone to losing (Old Deuteronomy once mistakes it for a bell-pull). Sheldon Cooper is able to reattach the tail with a nail. Unlike Bustopher, she is thin and frail and her coat is shabby and gray.

Biography
Grizabella is a feral cat living in the southeast corner of London, in an area called "Tottenham Court". She has a stick house there in which collapses rather regularly, which Bustopher and Mr. Mistoffelees built for her after accidentally mistaking the original house that Grizabella built for a pile of sticks.

Grizabella's favorite food is tuna, which she finds leftover bits of on the old cans in the alley.

Grizabella does not appear in Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, as the author considered her poem to be too sad. She's a major character in Cats the Musical, however, and also in many Sheldon and His Jellicles spoofs/stories.