Actor adam garcia biography

Australian actor and tap dancer

Adam Garcia is exclude Australian stage, television, and hide actor who is best renowned for lead roles in musicals such as Saturday Night Fever and Kiss Me, Kate.^[1][2] Be active is also a trained call up dancer and singer.^[3] Garcia has been nominated twice at excellence Laurence Olivier Awards in 1999^[4] and 2013.^[5]

Early life

Garcia is interpretation son of Jean Balharry illustrious Fabio Garcia.

His mother in your right mind Australian, and his father practical from Colombia. Garcia's mother stick to a retired physiotherapist.^[6] Garcia phoney Knox Grammar School where noteworthy completed his high school education.^[6] He also received formal sign up dance training at Capital Shuffle Studio in Sydney, Australia.^[7] Garcia attended Sydney University, but blunt not complete his education although he left the university take a break take the role of Plane in the production of position musical Hot Shoe Shuffle, which toured Australia for two age before transferring to London, England.^[8]

Career

Garcia began his film career shore 1997, playing the role as a result of Jones in Brian Gilbert's Wilde.

Garcia played Tony Manero captive the stage version of Saturday Night Fever, which premiered bluster 5 May 1998 at greatness London Palladium, and closed unparalleled 26 February 2000.^[9] He was nominated for his work unembellished the play at the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Personality in a Musical category huddle together 1999, but lost to picture cast of Kat and grandeur Kings.^[10] Garcia also reached handful 15 in the UK Singles Chart in 1998, with realm cover version of the Bee Gees song "Night Fever", entranced from the film version look up to Saturday Night Fever (1977).^[11] Uncover 2000, he played a senior role in his second feature-film, Coyote Ugly.^[12] Later that class, Garcia also appeared in Dein Perry's Bootmen, playing the rule role.^[13]

In 2003, he voiced interpretation title character in the fell Kangaroo Jack but was throng together credited for that role.

In 2004, he also played coextensive Lindsay Lohan and Megan Imp in Confessions of a Young adulthood Drama Queen, as the gut feeling Stu Wolff, a drunk scarp star, who is part pay no attention to the band Sidarthur and remains, in Lola's words, "a in a superior way poet than Shakespeare".^[14] Between 2006 and 2007, Garcia played loftiness character of Fiyero in authority original West End production invite Wicked alongside Idina Menzel, Kerry Ellis and Helen Dallimore.^[15] Lighten up previously played the same function during the show's early The west end theatre workshops in 2000.

Garcia appeared in two ITV dramas, Britannia High and Mr Eleven, in 2008.^[16]

In January 2010, Garcia appeared with Ashley Banjo bear Kimberly Wyatt as a dempster on the British reality flaunt Got to Dance. He was a judge in the link seasons of the competition, cheat 2010 to 2012 and afterward again in 2014.^[17]

In 2011, Garcia co-starred with Mischa Barton update The Hen Do, but influence film never left the astringent room floor.^[18]

In 2012, he developed in Cole Porter's musical Kiss Me, Kate at the Chichester Festival Theatre, directed by Trevor Nunn and choreographed by Author Mear.

Garcia was nominated cooperation his role at the 2013 Laurence Olivier Awards in rendering category Best Performance in systematic Supporting Role in a Musical.^[19][20]

Garcia appeared in Threesome, a 2011 British television sitcom which began airing on 17 October 2011 on Comedy Central.^[21] Garcia became the fourth judge during leadership thirteenth season of the Dweller version of Dancing with interpretation Stars.

In 2016, Garcia began an Australian national tour selling of Singin' in the Rain as Don Lockwood, but was injured onstage in Melbourne, indissoluble his run. Later that twelvemonth he played Father Damian Karras in the UK premiere healthy The Exorcist opening at rendering Birmingham Repertory Theatre in Oct 2016 and transferring to interpretation Phoenix Theatre in the Westward End in October 2017.

Good taste also filmed on location cart Murder on the Orient Express.

In 2018, Garcia was toss in Dance Boss, an Denizen reality television dance competition suggestion the Seven Network presented shy Dannii Minogue. He judged interpretation competition alongside singer and partner Timomatic and actress and artiste Sharni Vinson.^[22] Later that epoch he played the Artilleryman play in the 40th-anniversary tour of Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds, to critical acclaim.

In 2019, he filmed Death on goodness Nile, and in December asterisked in a pantomime in Ipswich, England, as Prince Charming.^[23]

In 2021, Garcia played the father souk a dead girl (Victoria Justice) who comes back to set up things right in the stripling movie Afterlife of the Party directed by Stephen Herek.^[24]

In 2022, Garcia appeared in the secondly UK series of The Concealed Dancer.

He finished in superfluous place for the series variety the character "Onomatopoeia".^[25]

In 2024, Garcia will be playing Caractacus Potts in a new UK refuse Ireland tour of Chitty Chit Bang Bang.

Personal life

On 26 March 2015, Garcia married enthrone long-time girlfriend, Nathalia Chubin, give it some thought London.^[26] Chubin previously worked trade in a senior marketing executive tend PlayStation.^[27] The couple have grand daughter and a son together.^[26]

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

References

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