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Alistair Daniel Brammer (born 12 November 1988) is an English actor best known for playing Jean Prouvaire in both the 2010 special '' Les Misérables: 25th Anniversary Concert'' and the 2012 musical film ''
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''. Brammer performed as 'Chris' in the ''
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'' 25th anniversary performance. Originally from
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,
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, Brammer is the youngest of seven children. In 2005, he was one of 35 students from around England chosen to participate in the 20th anniversary celebration of ''Les Misérables'' at Queen's Theatre in the West End. In 2008, while a student at Exeter College, he competed in ''Any Dream Will Do'', and made it to the final 20 contestants, although he was not selected to be on the show. However, ''Any Dream Will Do'' judge
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asked him to appear in the 2008–2009 UK tour of ''
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'', where he played Zebulon and understudied both Benjamin and Joseph. In 2009, he made his West End debut as Marius in ''Les Miserables'', where he spent 18 months in the role. He said of ''Les Mis'', "I should be sick to death of the show, but I can't get over it. It's my favourite." He also played the role of Jean Prouvaire in the ''Les Misérables'' 25th Anniversary Concert at
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on 3 October 2010. He also appeared as Walter and understudied Claude in a European tour of ''Hair'', before he was cast as Jean Prouvaire in the 2012 film ''Les Misérables''. Since that time, he also appeared as Billy in the 2012 revival of ''Taboo'' at the Brixton Clubhouse, and until 15 March 2014 was playing Billy and understudying Albert in the West End production of ''War Horse''. On 21 November 2013, it was announced that he would be starring as Chris in the West End revival of ''
Miss Saigon ''Miss Saigon'' is a sung-through musical theatre, stage musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby Jr. It is based on Giacomo Puccini's 1904 opera ''Madama Butterfly'', and similarly tells th ...
''. Previews began on 3 May 2014. He revived his role as Chris in the Broadway revival of Miss Saigon which began previews on 1 March 2017. He remained with the Broadway revival until its closing on 14 January 2018. On 5 December 2015, Brammer made his first appearance as Jack Diamond, the receptionist, in ''
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''. In December 2016, Brammer played the role of Oliver in the Finale special of Vicious. Oliver served as main characters Freddie and Stuart's brand new upstairs neighbour following the departure of Oliver's flat's previous occupant Ash (
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), whom Freddie and Stuart were close to. It was confirmed that from 22 July 2019, Brammer would play the role of Fiyero in the West End production of ''
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''. He played the role until 30th January 2022.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Brammer, Alistair English male film actors Actors from Exmouth 1988 births Living people English male musical theatre actors Musicians from Devon Male actors from Devon 21st-century English male actors People educated at Exeter College, Devon