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.[1][2] He is also a trained tap dancer and singer.[3] Garcia has been nominated twice at the Laurence Olivier Awards in 1999[4] and 2013.[5]
Early life
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.[6] Garcia attended Knox Grammar School where he completed his high school education.[6] He also received formal tap dance training at Capital Dance Studio in Sydney, Australia.[7] 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.[8]
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.[17]
In 2011, Garcia co-starred with Mischa Barton in The Hen Do, but the film never left the cutting room floor.[18]
Garcia appeared in Threesome, a 2011 British television sitcom which began airing on 17 October 2011 on Comedy Central.[21] Garcia became the fourth judge during the thirteenth season of the Australian version of Dancing with the Stars.
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.[22] 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.[23]
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".[25]
In 2024, Garcia will be playing Caractacus Potts in a new UK and Ireland tour of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Personal life
On 26 March 2015, Garcia married his long-time girlfriend, Nathalia Chubin, in London.[26] Chubin previously worked as a senior marketing executive for PlayStation.[27] The couple have a daughter and a son together.[26]
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