Adam Garcia

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**Adam Gabriel Garcia** (born 1 June 1973) is an Australian stage, television, and film 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 was born in 1973 to Jean Balharry and Fabio Garcia in Wahroonga, New South Wales. His mother, Jean, is Australian, and his father, Fabio, 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.

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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 first UK production of The Exorcist, opening at the Birmingham Rep and transferring to the West End in 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".

## Personal life

On 26 March 2015, Garcia married his long-time girlfriend, Nathalia Chubin, in London. Chubin previously worked as a senior marketing executive for PlayStation. The couple have a daughter and a son together.

## Awards and nominations

 2013 | Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical | *Kiss Me, Kate* | Nominated

## References

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1. ↑ West, The Reviews Hub-North (24 January 2019). Saturday Night Fever - Palace Theatre, Manchester.
2. ↑ Kiss Me, Kate at the Old Vic Theatre starring Adam Garcia and Hannah Waddingham (23 July 2012).
3. ↑ Stage and screen star Adam Garcia puts Poole dancers through their paces (22 July 2018).
4. ↑ Olivier Winners 1999 (en-GB).
5. ↑ Olivier Winners 2013 (en-GB).
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Money, Lawrence (2 May 2016). From Coyote Ugly to the UK's Got to Dance, Adam Garcia takes a Gene Kelly turn.
7. ↑ Adam Garcia's Got to Tap! (31 July 2010).
8. ↑ Mediaweek (30 April 2018). Seven announces the judges for new reality series Dance Boss Australia.
9. ↑ Saturday Night Fever at New Wimbledon Theatre - Review (31 August 2018).
10. ↑ Gans, Andrew (26 April 2006). Adam Garcia to Join Idina Menzel for London Wicked.
11. ↑ Movie Star Adam Garcia Is Heading To CC (10 September 2018).
12. ↑ Lovell, Lucy (28 February 2018). Coyote Ugly's Adam Garcia is coming to Manchester bar's launch party.
13. ↑ Ebert, Roger. Bootmen Movie Review & Film Summary (2000) - Roger Ebert.
14. ↑ <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>"Why Hollywood and West End actor Adam Garcia was in Scunthorpe". *Grimsby Live*. 14 January 2019. Retrieved 10 May 2019 – via www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk.
15. ↑ Adam Garcia cast in Wicked (8 June 2016).
16. ↑ Adam Garcia.
17. ↑ Tap dancers will love this masterclass in Heathfield with stage and screen star Adam Garcia.
18. ↑ Spy, Theatre. Adam Garcia and Mischa Barton in new comedy The Hen Do.
19. ↑ Woolman, Natalie (15 February 2012). Adam Garcia cast in Chichester's Kiss Me, Kate - News.
20. ↑ Adam Garcia cast in Nunn's Kiss Me Kate at Chichester - WhatsOnStage (15 February 2012).
21. ↑ SensaCine (4 August 2015). ¿Qué ha sido de las protagonistas de 'El Bar Coyote'?: Adam Garcia.
22. ↑ Adam Garcia.
23. ↑ Meet the stars of Cinderella Adam Garcia and Hannah Spearritt.
24. ↑ 'AFTERLIFE OF THE PARTY' Review: Don't Tell Mom The Party Girl's Dead (en-US) (2021-09-02).
25. ↑ <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>Sansome, Jessica (23 October 2022). "Masked Dancer fans share complaint as Scissors unmasked as Glee's Heather Morris". *Manchester Evening News*. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
26. ↑ 26.0 26.1 'Coyote Ugly' Turns 20: What Happened to Australian Hottie Adam Garcia? | Entertainment Tonight (en-US).
27. ↑ Adam Garcia (ru-RU) (2020-08-27).

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