Adam Garcia

Adam Garcia (born Adam Gabriel Garcia, 1 June 1973) is an Australian actor and tap dancer. Garcia was born in Wahroonga, New South Wales, Australia and is of half Colombian descent. His father is from Colombia.

Career

Garcia left university to take the role of the Slide in the production of the musical Hot Shoe Shuffle, which toured Australia for two years before transferring to London, England. Garcia stayed on in London to act in West End musicals.

Garcia's career as a film actor began in 1997, when he played Jones in Wilde, a film about the life of writer Oscar Wilde. Garcia played Tony Manero, in the stage version of Saturday Night Fever, which ran from 1998 to 1999 in London. Garcia reached No. 15 in the UK singles chart in 1998, with his cover version of the Bee Gees song "Night Fever", taken from Saturday Night Fever. Garcia's second feature film performance was a major role in the 2000 film Coyote Ugly. later in 2000 he played the role of Sean in Bootmen, a film based on the Tapdogs story.

In 2006-07, he starred as Fiyero in the original London production of Wicked alongside Idina Menzel (later replaced by Kerry Ellis) and Helen Dallimore. He previously played the role during the show's early Broadway workshops in 2000.

In the latter part of 2008, Garcia appeared in two ITV dramas, Britannia High in which he plays the dance teacher, and Mr Eleven, a two-part comedy/drama alongside Michelle Ryan and Sean Maguire. He is currently working on an indie film A Woman Called Job. In January 2010 Garcia appeared alongside Ashley Banjo and Kimberly Wyatt as a judge on the reality show Got To Dance.^[1]

In 2011, Garcia was cast in two part comedy drama, The Hen Do, which will be set in Ibiza and co-star Mischa Barton. The show was co-written by Lucy Brown and Olivia Poulet and will be produced by Andy Serkis and John Cavendish.^[2]

Selected filmography

• Wilde (1997, film, as Jones)
• Coyote Ugly (2000, film, as Kevin O'Donnell)
• Bootmen (2000, film, as Sean)
• Riding in Cars with Boys (2001, film, as Jason D'Onofrio)
• The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest (2002, film, as Andy)
• Kangaroo Jack (2003, film, voice-over, Kangaroo Jack)
• Marple: The Body in the Library (2004, TV series, as Raymond Starr)
• Love's Brother (2004, film, as Gino Donnini)
• Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004, film, as Stu Wolff)
• Fascination (2004, film, as Scott Doherty)
• Riot at the Rite (2005, film, as Vaslav Nijinsky)
• Standing Still (2005, film, as Michael)
• Doctor Who – "The Christmas Invasion" (2005, TV series, as Alex)
• Britannia High (2008, TV Series, as Stefan)
• Hawthorne (2009, TV Series, as Nick Mancini)
• The Flight of the Conchords Obnoxious Australian (1 episode, 2009)
• Mister Eleven (2009, TV drama, as Alex)
• Got To Dance (2010, TV dance competition, as a Judge)
• Heston's Titanic Feast (2010, TV series, as Himself)
• House – "The Choice" (1 episode, first aired 3 May 2010)
• Threesome (TV series) (2011, as Dave)

References

External links

Biography portal

• Adam Garcia at the Internet Movie Database