Adam Garcia

Adam Garcia
Born	Adam Gabriel Garcia (1973-06-01) 1 June 1973 Wahroonga, Sydney, Australia
Occupation(s)	Actor, dancer, singer
Years active	1997–present

Adam Gabriel Garcia (born 1 June 1973) is an Australian actor, singer, and dancer.

Life and career

Garcia was born in Wahroonga, New South Wales. His father is from Colombia. 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. He remained 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 Oscar Wilde. Garcia played Tony Manero in the stage version of Saturday Night Fever, which ran from 1998-99 in London. Garcia 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).

His 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. In 2003, he voiced the title character in the film Kangaroo Jack. 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 Sidarther and is, in Lola's words, "a greater poet than Shakespeare".

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 late 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. In January 2010, Garcia appeared with Ashley Banjo and Kimberly Wyatt as a judge on the reality show Got To Dance.

In 2011, Garcia was cast in The Hen Do. In 2012, Garcia appeared in Cole Porter's Kiss Me, Kate at the Chichester Festival Theatre, directed by Trevor Nunn and choreographed by Stephen Meare. Garcia became the fourth judge on the 2013 Australian version of Dancing with the Stars.

In 2011-12, Garcia was in Threesome, a British television sitcom which began airing on 17 October 2011 on Comedy Central and Comedy Central HD. It was the first original scripted comedy commissioned by Comedy Central and produced by Big Talk Productions.

On 26 March 2015, he married Nathalia Chubin in London.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Note
1997	Wilde	Jones
2000	Coyote Ugly	Kevin O'Donnell
	Bootmen	Sean
2001	Riding in Cars with Boys	Jason D'Onofrio
2002	The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest	Andy
2003	Kangaroo Jack	Kangaroo Jack	Voice-over
2004	Love's Brother	Gino Donnini
	Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen	Stu Wolff
	Fascination	Scott Doherty
2005	Riot at the Rite	Vaslav Nijinsky
	Standing Still	Michael
2010	Every Emotion Costs	Wade
2014	Nativity 3: Dude, Where's my Donkey?	Bradley Finch	Leading Role Flash mob Perfectionist

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2004	Agatha Christie's Marple	Raymond Starr
2005	Doctor Who	Alex	Episode: "The Christmas Invasion"
2008	Britannia High	Stefan
2009	Hawthorne	Nick Mancini
	The Flight of the Conchords	Obnoxious Australian	Episode: "The Tough Brets"
	Mister Eleven	Alex	TV Drama
2010–2012	Got to Dance	Judge	TV Dance Competition
2010	Bookaboo	Himself	Children's show
	Heston's Titanic Feast	Himself
	House	Theodore Phillip Taylor	1 Episode: "The Choice"
2011	Threesome	Dave
2013	Camp	Todd
2013-2014	Dancing with the Stars	Judge	TV Reality Show
2014	Perception	Dr. Asper
	Got to Dance	Judge	TV Dance Competition
	The Code	Perry Benson
2016	Bruce's Hall Of Fame with Alexander Armstrong	Himself	Performer (With Kimberly Wyatt)

Awards and nominations

Year	Awards	Category	Recipient	Outcome
1999	Laurence Olivier Awards	Best Actor in a Musical	Saturday Night Fever	Nominated
2013		Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical	Kiss Me, Kate	Nominated

External links

• Adam Garcia at IMDb