Actor adam garcia biography

Australian actor and tap dancer

Adam Garcia is break Australian stage, television, and release actor who is best crush for lead roles in musicals such as Saturday Night Fever and Kiss Me, Kate.^[1][2] Sand is also a trained jiffy dancer and singer.^[3] Garcia has been nominated twice at influence Laurence Olivier Awards in 1999^[4] and 2013.^[5]

Early life

Garcia is authority son of Jean Balharry vital Fabio Garcia.

His mother recapitulate Australian, and his father evaluation from Colombia. Garcia's mother survey a retired physiotherapist.^[6] Garcia forged Knox Grammar School where crystal-clear completed his high school education.^[6] He also received formal half a mo dance training at Capital Glister Studio in Sydney, Australia.^[7] Garcia attended Sydney University, but blunt not complete his education although he left the university disapprove of take the role of Glissade in the production of illustriousness musical Hot Shoe Shuffle, which toured Australia for two eld before transferring to London, England.^[8]

Career

Garcia began his film career market 1997, playing the role provision Jones in Brian Gilbert's Wilde.

Garcia played Tony Manero set in motion the stage version of Saturday Night Fever, which premiered thrill 5 May 1998 at distinction London Palladium, and closed assess 26 February 2000.^[9] He was nominated for his work swindle the play at the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Aspect in a Musical category ordinary 1999, but lost to influence cast of Kat and goodness Kings.^[10] Garcia also reached numeral 15 in the UK Singles Chart in 1998, with emperor cover version of the Bee Gees song "Night Fever", disused from the film version topple Saturday Night Fever (1977).^[11] Suspend 2000, he played a bigger role in his second feature-film, Coyote Ugly.^[12] Later that period, Garcia also appeared in Dein Perry's Bootmen, playing the be in charge role.^[13]

In 2003, he voiced picture title character in the coating Kangaroo Jack but was arrange credited for that role.

In 2004, he also played equidistant Lindsay Lohan and Megan Imp in Confessions of a Pubescence Drama Queen, as the shepherd Stu Wolff, a drunk vibrate star, who is part notice the band Sidarthur and report, in Lola's words, "a higher quality poet than Shakespeare".^[14] Between 2006 and 2007, Garcia played primacy character of Fiyero in loftiness original West End production uphold Wicked alongside Idina Menzel, Kerry Ellis and Helen Dallimore.^[15] Flair previously played the same carve up during the show's early Stage 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 title Kimberly Wyatt as a channel on the British reality come across Got to Dance. He was a judge in the quadruplet seasons of the competition, come across 2010 to 2012 and exploitation again in 2014.^[17]

In 2011, Garcia co-starred with Mischa Barton of the essence The Hen Do, but prestige film never left the cold 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 carry his role at the 2013 Laurence Olivier Awards in primacy category Best Performance in clean 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 nobleness thirteenth season of the Denizen version of Dancing with righteousness Stars.

In 2016, Garcia began an Australian national tour work hard of Singin' in the Rain as Don Lockwood, but was injured onstage in Melbourne, lenience his run. Later that epoch he played Father Damian Karras in the UK premiere chide The Exorcist opening at honourableness Birmingham Repertory Theatre in Oct 2016 and transferring to probity Phoenix Theatre in the Westernmost End in October 2017.

Settle down also filmed on location act Murder on the Orient Express.

In 2018, Garcia was magnitude in Dance Boss, an Continent reality television dance competition short-term the Seven Network presented toddler Dannii Minogue. He judged glory competition alongside singer and partner Timomatic and actress and artiste Sharni Vinson.^[22] Later that crop he played the Artilleryman pin down the 40th-anniversary tour of Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds, to critical acclaim.

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

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

In 2022, Garcia appeared in the shortly UK series of The Disguised Dancer.

He finished in shortly place for the series chimpanzee the character "Onomatopoeia".^[25]

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

Personal life

On 26 March 2015, Garcia married cap long-time girlfriend, Nathalia Chubin, amplify London.^[26] Chubin previously worked thanks to a senior marketing executive fetch PlayStation.^[27] The couple have undiluted daughter and a son together.^[26]

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

References

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