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Adam Garcia

Known For
Acting

Known Credits
42

Gender
Male

Birthday
June 1, 1973 (53 years old)

Place of Birth
Wahroonga, New South Wales, Australia

Adam Garcia

Biography

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.

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.

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.[9] 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.[10] 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 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

Known For

Acting

2024The Performanceas Benny
2024My Eyesas Sam
2022The Serpent Queenas Sebastiano de Montecuccoli
2022Death on the Nileas Syd (Photographer)
2021Death Linkas Dr. Yates
2021Afterlife of the Partyas Howie
2017Murder on the Orient Expressas Italian Fan
2017Geniusas Moe Berg
2016Agatha Raisinas George Felliet
2016Bruce's Hall of Fame with Alexander Armstrongas Self
2015Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Taleas Lord Amadis
2014A Woman Called Jobas Lee
2014Nativity 3: Dude, Where's My Donkey?!as Bradley Finch
2014The Codeas Perry Benson
2013Campas Todd
2012Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Storyas Tony Windsor
2012Perceptionas Dr. Kenny Esper
2010The Michael Ball Showas Self
2009Mister Elevenas Alex
2009Hawthorneas Nick Mancini
2009Tonight's the Nightas
2008Britannia Highas Stefan
2008Celebrity Juiceas Self
2007Flight of the Conchordsas Obnoxious Australian
2005Riot at the Riteas Vaslav Nijinsky
2005Standing Stillas Michael
2004Agatha Christie's Marpleas Raymond Starr
2004Houseas Theodore Taylor
2004Fascinationas Scott Doherty
2004Dancing with the Starsas Self - Judge
2004Love's Brotheras Gino Donnini
2004Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queenas Stu
2003Kangaroo Jackas Kangaroo Jack/"Jackie Legs" (Uncredited0
2002The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardestas Andy Kasper
2001Riding in Cars with Boysas Jason
2001An Audience with Kylie Minogueas Self
2001Big Brother's Little Brotheras Self
2000Bootmenas Sean Odken
2000Coyote Uglyas Kevin O'Donnell
1997Wildeas Jones
1978An Audience with...as Self
With Friends Like Theseas Gerry

Production

2021Death Link...Associate Producer