Adam Garcia

Adam Garcia is an Australian actor who is best known for lead roles in musicals such as '' Saturday Night Fever'' and '' Kiss Me, Kate''. He is also a trained tap dancer and singer. Garcia has been nominated twice at the Laurence Olivier Awards in 1999 and 2013.

Early life

Garcia is the son of Jean Balharry and Fabio Garcia. His mother is Australian, and his father is from Colombia. Garcia's mother is a retired physiotherapist. Garcia attended Knox Grammar School where he completed his high school education. He also received formal tap dance training at Capital Dance Studio in Sydney, Australia. Garcia attended Sydney University, but did not complete his education as he left the university to take the role of Slide in the production of the musical '' Hot Shoe Shuffle'', which toured Australia for two years before transferring to London, England.

Career

Garcia began his film career in 1997, playing the role of Jones in Brian Gilbert's '' Wilde''. Garcia played Tony Manero in the stage version of '' Saturday Night Fever'', which premiered on 5 May 1998 at the London Palladium, and closed on 26 February 2000. He was nominated for his work in the play at the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical category in 1999, but lost to the cast of '' Kat and the Kings''. Garcia also reached number 15 in the UK Singles Chart in 1998, with his cover version of the Bee Gees song " Night Fever", taken from the film version of '' Saturday Night Fever'' (1977). In 2000, he played a major role in his second feature-film, '' Coyote Ugly''. Later that year, Garcia also appeared in Dein Perry's '' Bootmen'', playing the lead role.

In 2003, he voiced the title character in the film '' Kangaroo Jack'' but was not credited for that role.

In 2004, he also played alongside Lindsay Lohan and Megan Fox in '' Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen'', as the character Stu Wolff, a drunk rock star, who is part of the band Sidarthur and is, in Lola's words, "a greater poet than Shakespeare". Between 2006 and 2007, Garcia played the character of Fiyero in the original West End production of '' Wicked'' alongside Idina Menzel, Kerry Ellis and Helen Dallimore. He previously played the same role during the show's early Broadway theatre workshops in 2000. Garcia appeared in two ITV dramas, '' Britannia High'' and ''Mr Eleven'', in 2008.

In January 2010, Garcia appeared with Ashley Banjo and Kimberly Wyatt as a judge on the British reality show '' Got to Dance''. He was a judge in the four seasons of the competition, from 2010 to 2012 and then again in 2014.

In 2011, Garcia co-starred with Mischa Barton in ''The Hen Do'', but the film never left the cutting room floor.

In 2012, he appeared in Cole Porter's musical '' Kiss Me, Kate'' at the Chichester Festival Theatre, directed by Trevor Nunn and choreographed by Stephen Mear. Garcia was nominated for his role at the 2013 Laurence Olivier Awards in the category Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical.

Garcia appeared in '' Threesome'', a 2011 British television sitcom which began airing on 17 October 2011 on Comedy Central. Garcia became the fourth judge during the thirteenth season of the Australian version of '' Dancing with the Stars''.

In 2016, Garcia began an Australian national tour production of '' Singin' in the Rain'' as Don Lockwood, but was injured onstage in Melbourne, ending his run. Later that year he played Father Damian Karras in the UK premiere of ''The Exorcist'' opening at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in October 2016 and transferring to the Phoenix Theatre in the West End in October 2017. He also filmed on location for '' Murder on the Orient Express''.

In 2018, Garcia was cast in '' Dance Boss'', an Australian reality television dance competition on the Seven Network presented by Dannii Minogue. He judged the competition alongside singer and dancer Timomatic and actress and performer Sharni Vinson. Later that year he played the Artilleryman in the 40th-anniversary tour of Jeff Wayne’s '' War of the Worlds'', to critical acclaim.

In 2019, he filmed ''Death on the Nile'', and in December starred in a pantomime in Ipswich, England, as Prince Charming.

In 2021, Garcia played the father of a dead girl ( Victoria Justice) who comes back to make things right in the teen movie '' Afterlife of the Party'' directed by Stephen Herek.

In 2022, Garcia appeared in the second UK series of '' The Masked Dancer''. He finished in second place for the series as the character "Onomatopoeia".

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

Personal life

In January 2015, it was reported that Garcia was engaged to British brand manager Nathalia Chubin. He proposed to her in Sydney, Australia while visiting his family. Chubin previously worked as a senior marketing executive for PlayStation. They got married in London later that year. The couple have two daughters together and split their time between Australia, England and the United States.

Filmography

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Television

Awards and nominations

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Living people
20th-century Australian male actors
20th-century Australian male singers
21st-century Australian male actors
21st-century Australian male singers
Australian expatriates in England
Australian male dancers
Australian male film actors
Australian male musical theatre actors
Australian male stage actors
Australian male television actors
Australian male voice actors
Australian people of Colombian descent
Male actors from Sydney
Musicians from Sydney
People educated at Knox Grammar School
Singers from Sydney
Tap dancers
Year of birth missing (living people)