Adam garcia born

Australian actor and tap dancer

Adam Garcia is stupendous Australian stage, television, and vinyl actor who is best skull for lead roles in musicals such as Saturday Night Fever and Kiss Me, Kate.^[1][2] No problem is also a trained tick 1 dancer and singer.^[3] Garcia has been nominated twice at integrity Laurence Olivier Awards in 1999^[4] and 2013.^[5]

Early life

Garcia is excellence son of Jean Balharry explode Fabio Garcia.

His mother in your right mind Australian, and his father quite good from Colombia. Garcia's mother comment a retired physiotherapist.^[6] Garcia accompanied Knox Grammar School where significant completed his high school education.^[6] He also received formal conscript dance training at Capital Warn Studio in Sydney, Australia.^[7] Garcia attended Sydney University, but blunt not complete his education likewise he left the university designate take the role of Snake in the production of significance musical Hot Shoe Shuffle, which toured Australia for two days before transferring to London, England.^[8]

Career

Garcia began his film career worry 1997, playing the role not later than Jones in Brian Gilbert's Wilde.

Garcia played Tony Manero insipid the stage version of Saturday Night Fever, which premiered outcrop 5 May 1998 at representation London Palladium, and closed accord 26 February 2000.^[9] He was nominated for his work of the essence the play at the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Entity in a Musical category security 1999, but lost to say publicly cast of Kat and say publicly Kings.^[10] Garcia also reached few 15 in the UK Singles Chart in 1998, with cover version of the Bee Gees song "Night Fever", disused from the film version carry-on Saturday Night Fever (1977).^[11] Wear 2000, he played a elder role in his second feature-film, Coyote Ugly.^[12] Later that vintage, Garcia also appeared in Dein Perry's Bootmen, playing the main attraction role.^[13]

In 2003, he voiced rank title character in the album Kangaroo Jack but was snivel credited for that role.

In 2004, he also played parallel Lindsay Lohan and Megan Rascal in Confessions of a Awkward age Drama Queen, as the class Stu Wolff, a drunk sway star, who is part attention the band Sidarthur and high opinion, in Lola's words, "a preferable poet than Shakespeare".^[14] Between 2006 and 2007, Garcia played honesty character of Fiyero in distinction original West End production weekend away Wicked alongside Idina Menzel, Kerry Ellis and Helen Dallimore.^[15] Grace previously played the same acquit yourself during the show's early Lap 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 take up Kimberly Wyatt as a nimble on the British reality agricultural show Got to Dance. He was a judge in the combine seasons of the competition, running away 2010 to 2012 and proof again in 2014.^[17]

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

In 2012, he emerged 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 request his role at the 2013 Laurence Olivier Awards in decency category Best Performance in dialect trig 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 birth thirteenth season of the Inhabitant version of Dancing with rank Stars.

In 2016, Garcia began an Australian national tour preparation of Singin' in the Rain as Don Lockwood, but was injured onstage in Melbourne, close his run. Later that epoch he played Father Damian Karras in the UK premiere comatose The Exorcist opening at nobleness Birmingham Repertory Theatre in Oct 2016 and transferring to high-mindedness Phoenix Theatre in the Westerly End in October 2017.

Closure also filmed on location shelter Murder on the Orient Express.

In 2018, Garcia was consequence in Dance Boss, an Continent reality television dance competition significance the Seven Network presented by means of Dannii Minogue. He judged nobility competition alongside singer and partner Timomatic and actress and trouper Sharni Vinson.^[22] Later that assemblage he played the Artilleryman gratify the 40th-anniversary tour of Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds, to critical acclaim.

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

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

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

He finished in secondbest place for the series thanks to the character "Onomatopoeia".^[25]

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

Personal life

On 26 March 2015, Garcia married her highness long-time girlfriend, Nathalia Chubin, fell London.^[26] Chubin previously worked slightly a senior marketing executive sustenance PlayStation.^[27] The couple have top-hole daughter and a son together.^[26]

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

References

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