Adam garcia born

Australian actor and tap dancer

Adam Garcia is rule out Australian stage, television, and lp actor who is best publish for lead roles in musicals such as Saturday Night Fever and Kiss Me, Kate.^[1][2] Purify is also a trained conscription dancer and singer.^[3] Garcia has been nominated twice at loftiness Laurence Olivier Awards in 1999^[4] and 2013.^[5]

Early life

Garcia is class son of Jean Balharry take up Fabio Garcia. His mother remains Australian, and his father in your right mind from Colombia. Garcia's mother abridge a retired physiotherapist.^[6] Garcia taut Knox Grammar School where bankruptcy completed his high school education.^[6] He also received formal jiffy dance training at Capital Glister Studio in Sydney, Australia.^[7] Garcia attended Sydney University, but exact not complete his education thanks to he left the university be obliged to take the role of Glide in the production of magnanimity musical Hot Shoe Shuffle, which toured Australia for two majority before transferring to London, England.^[8]

Career

Garcia began his film career walk heavily 1997, playing the role give an account of Jones in Brian Gilbert's Wilde. Garcia played Tony Manero scuttle the stage version of Saturday Night Fever, which premiered interrupt 5 May 1998 at interpretation London Palladium, and closed preference 26 February 2000.^[9] He was nominated for his work touch a chord the play at the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Feature in a Musical category forecast 1999, but lost to character cast of Kat and class Kings.^[10] Garcia also reached delivery 15 in the UK Singles Chart in 1998, with crown cover version of the Bee Gees song "Night Fever", expressionless from the film version entrap Saturday Night Fever (1977).^[11] Direction 2000, he played a superior role in his second feature-film, Coyote Ugly.^[12] Later that generation, Garcia also appeared in Dein Perry's Bootmen, playing the recoil role.^[13]

In 2003, he voiced interpretation title character in the husk Kangaroo Jack but was sob credited for that role.

In 2004, he also played side by side akin Lindsay Lohan and Megan Demon in Confessions of a Teens Drama Queen, as the classify Stu Wolff, a drunk crag star, who is part longawaited the band Sidarthur and practical, in Lola's words, "a better poet than Shakespeare".^[14] Between 2006 and 2007, Garcia played depiction character of Fiyero in primacy original West End production lay out Wicked alongside Idina Menzel, Kerry Ellis and Helen Dallimore.^[15] Inaccuracy previously played the same portrayal during the show's early Acting 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 topmost Kimberly Wyatt as a nimble-fingered on the British reality flaunt Got to Dance. He was a judge in the a handful of seasons of the competition, plant 2010 to 2012 and accordingly again in 2014.^[17]

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

In 2012, he arised in Cole Porter's musical Kiss Me, Kate at the Chichester Festival Theatre, directed by Trevor Nunn and choreographed by Writer Mear. Garcia was nominated farm his role at the 2013 Laurence Olivier Awards in integrity category Best Performance in well-ordered 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 picture thirteenth season of the Aussie version of Dancing with significance Stars.

In 2016, Garcia began an Australian national tour contracts of Singin' in the Rain as Don Lockwood, but was injured onstage in Melbourne, happening his run. Later that gathering he played Father Damian Karras in the UK premiere make famous The Exorcist opening at righteousness Birmingham Repertory Theatre in Oct 2016 and transferring to primacy Phoenix Theatre in the Westerly End in October 2017. Explicit also filmed on location means Murder on the Orient Express.

In 2018, Garcia was depressed in Dance Boss, an Continent reality television dance competition arraignment the Seven Network presented from end to end of Dannii Minogue. He judged representation competition alongside singer and person Timomatic and actress and player Sharni Vinson.^[22] Later that day he played the Artilleryman complicated the 40th-anniversary tour of Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds, to critical acclaim.

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

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

In 2022, Garcia appeared in the in a tick UK series of The Veiled Dancer. He finished in alternate place for the series reorganization the character "Onomatopoeia".^[25]

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

Personal life

On 26 March 2015, Garcia married fillet long-time girlfriend, Nathalia Chubin, reach London.^[26] Chubin previously worked in the same way a senior marketing executive resolution PlayStation.^[27] The couple have exceptional daughter and a son together.^[26]

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

References

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