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Adam Garcia Profile |
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Birth Date: June 1, 1973
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Birth Place: Wahroonga, New South Wales, Australia
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Birth Name: Adam Gabriel Garcia
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Height: 5'11"
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Biography |
Adam Gabriel Garcia (born June 1, 1973 in Wahroonga, New
South Wales, Australia), is a movie actor. He is often
credited as Adam Garcia.
Adam left university to take the role of Slide in the
production of the musical Hot Shoe shuffle, which toured
Australia for 2 years before tranferring to London.
Adam stayed on in London to star in several West End
Musicals. (Dein Perry, the choreographer of Hot Shoe
shuffle, went on to found the successful stage show TapDogs.
In 2000 Adam Garcia played 'sean' in Bootmen, a movie based
on the Tapdogs story).
Despite the fact that he has starred in such movies as
Coyote Ugly and others, it was not until 2004, when he
participated as rock star Stu Wells in Confessions of a
Teenage Drama Queen that he gained mainstream fame as an
actor.
Garcia had for long been an accomplished stage actor before
the release of that movie. He played Doody (which is, in
fact, John Travolta's character of "Danny") in the West
End's version of Grease in London. He also played another
Travolta character, Tony Manero, in the stage version of
Saturday Night Fever, which ran from 1998 to 1999 in London.
He appeared as government official Alex Klein in the 2005
Christmas special of the long-running British science
fiction television series Doctor Who. According to the audio
commentary podcast for the episode offered for free on the
bbc.co.uk website following its transmission, Garcia
accepted the relatively minor role as he is a
science-fiction fan.
Garcia was nominated for multiple awards during his stage
acting career. His career transition into a film actor began
in 1997, when he played Jones in Wilde, a movie about the
life of writer Oscar Wilde.
Garcia's father is from Colombia. |
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Other Information |
Was in the opening ceremony of the Sydney Olympic Games
2000, in the tap dancing sequence.
Co-founded the dance troupe that went on to become the
internationally acclaimed "Tap Dogs".
Starred as Tony Manero in the stage version of Saturday
Night Fever at the London Palladium from April 1998-April
1999. Nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Actor in a
Musical for this role.
Started following in John Travolta's footsteps by playing
Doody in the West End (London) production of Grease.
Travolta played the same role on stage. Followed up with the
role of Tony Manero. Adam has joking said the he would also
play the lead in musical version of "The Boy In The Plastic
Bubble".
He was nominated for a 1999 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award
(1998 season) for Best Actor in a Musical for his
performance in Saturday Night Fever.
Favorite authors include: J.R.R Tolkein, Gabriel Garcia
Marquez and Tom Robbins
Favorite actors include: Johnny Depp and Paul Newman
Attended the same high school as Australian actors Hugh
Jackman, Andrew Johnston, Reg Livermore, Hugo Weaving,
writer Stuart Beattie and radio host John Laws. |
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