Adam Garcia

Actor

Birthday June 1, 1973

Birth Sign Gemini

Birthplace Wahroonga, New South Wales, Australia

Age 50 years old

Nationality Australia

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Adam Garcia 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.

1940

Later that year he played the Artilleryman in the 40th-anniversary tour of Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds, to critical acclaim.

1997

Garcia began his film career in 1997, playing the role of Jones in Brian Gilbert's Wilde.

1998

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.

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).

1999

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.

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.

2000

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.

He previously played the same role during the show's early Broadway theatre workshops in 2000.

2003

In 2003, he voiced the title character in the film Kangaroo Jack but was not credited for that role.

2004

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".

2006

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.

2008

Garcia appeared in two ITV dramas, Britannia High and Mr Eleven, in 2008.

2010

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.

2011

In 2011, Garcia co-starred with Mischa Barton in The Hen Do, but the film never left the cutting room floor.

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.

2012

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.

2013

Garcia was nominated for his role at the 2013 Laurence Olivier Awards in the category Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical.

2015

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.

2016

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.

2017

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.

2018

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.

2019

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".