Adam Garcia

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Adam Gabriel Garcia (born 1 June 1973) is an Australian actor of partial Colombian descent (his father is from Colombia). He was born in Wahroonga, New South Wales, Australia.

Career

Adam left 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. Adam stayed on in London to act in West End musicals.

Garcia played Doody 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. Garcia reached #15 in the UK singles chart in 1998, with his cover version of the Bee Gees song "Night Fever", taken from Saturday Night Fever. In 2000 Adam Garcia played Sean in Bootmen, a movie based on the Tapdogs story.

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 has been nominated for multiple awards during his acting career. His transition into a film actor began in 1997, when he played Jones in Wilde, a movie about the life of writer Oscar Wilde. 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 Wolf in Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen that he gained mainstream fame as an actor.^{[citation needed]}

Garcia worked with Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth to help create the role of Fiyero in the 2002 workshop addition of an in-production musical called Wicked. After Wicked's success, soon enough Garcia got to play the role of Fiyero again, from September 7th 2006, in the London production of Wicked, a role which he originated. He again starred alongside Idina Menzel, and later Kerry Ellis. He gave his final performance as Fiyero on July 14, 2007 and was replaced by understudy Oliver Tompsett.

In the latter part of 2008, Adam appears 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. Beginning in January 2010 Garcia will appear alongside Ashley Banjo and Kimberly Wyatt as judges on the reality show Got To Dance.^[1]

Selected filmography

• Wilde (1997, movie, as Jones)
• Coyote Ugly (2000, movie, as Kevin O'Donnell)
• Bootmen (2000, movie, as Sean)
• Riding in Cars with Boys (2001, movie, as Jason D'Onofrio)
• The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest (2002, movie, as Andy)
• Kangaroo Jack (2003, movie, voice-over, Kangaroo Jack)
• Marple: The Body in the Library (2004, TV series, as Raymond Starr)
• Love's Brother (2004, movie, as Gino Donnini)
• Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004, movie, as Stu Wolff)
• Fascination (2004, movie, as Scott Doherty)
• Riot at the Rite (2005, move, as Vaslav Nijinsky)
• Standing Still (film) (2005, movie, 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)

References

External links

• Adam Garcia at the Internet Movie Database