JOHN BARROWMAN
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everything and pretty much run with it. Today's blog is on the actor
John Barrowman.
John
Scott Barrowman was born on March 11th 1967 in Glasgow as
the youngest of three children. His family moved to Illinois in the
US in 1975, where (despite being mocked for his accent) he gained his
love of performing from a music teacher and was encouraged to use his
artistic potential by an English teacher at the high school he
attended. As a freshmen Barrowman won parts in several musical
productions and from 1983-1986 he performed in Oliver!, Camelot,
Hello, Dolly!, Li'l Abner and Anything goes.
Barrowman
began acting professionally in 1989 after spending 6 months studying
Shakespeare in an exchange program. He played Billy Crocker in Cole
Porter's Anything Goes at the Prince Edward Theatre alongside Elaine
Paige as Reno Sweeney and Bernard Cribbins as Moonface Martin.
Barrowman continued to appear in several west end shows for the next
decade such as Matador at the Queen's Theatre, Raoul in The Phantom
of the Opera at Her Majesty's theatre and more. Barrowman also
appeared in several pantomimes appearing as the title role in
Aladdin, in Cinderella and Jack in the Beanstalk to name a few.
Barrowman also appeared as a guest act for the Royal Variety
Performance (a yearly show mainly to raise money for the Royal
Variety Charity which the Queen is a life patron) at the London
Palladium in 2008.
Barrowman
both presented and Judged on several TV shows such as Live and
Kicking, How do you solve a problem like Maria?, Any Dream will do,
The Movie Game, Electric Circus, Barrowman also guested on shows such
as Al Murray's Happy Hour, The Charlotte church show and Friday Night
with Jonathon Ross. Barrowman has also appeared in several movies as
part of the cast such as the 2004 bio-pic Cole Porter singing with
Kevin Kline on the song “Night and day” as well as the lead tenor
stormtrooper in 2005's “The Producer's”. as part of TV shows
Barrowman co-presented and performed in 2006's The sound of Musicals,
Barrowman took part in Dancing on Ice in February of 2006 where he
was eliminated despite being a favourite to win, he also took part in
and won the 2010 Strictly come Dancing Christmas special. In 2018
Barrowman entered I'm a Celebrity get me out of here and came third
behind Emily Atack and Harry Redknapp.
Barrowman
however, is most well known for his role of Captain Jack Harkness a
pansexual time traveller from the 51st century who is a
re-occuring character in BBC's Doctor Who series and a main character
in the Spin-off series Torchwood. This role as Captain Jack has led
to Barrowman writing several works of fiction for Torchwood including
a comic-strip, Barrowman's debut Novel Hollow Earth released in 2012
was also co-written with his sister Carole Barrowman- an English
professor and Journalist- which was followed up with The Bone Quill
(2013) and The book of Beasts (2014) this has a follow up series
called the Orion Chronicles with its first book Conjuror released in
2016. there is also a separate novel called Torchwood: Exodus
Code(2013). Barrowman has also written two Autobiographies/Memoirs
about himself, Anything Goes which was released in 2008 and I Am What
I Am in 2009.
Barrowman
is Gay and has been openly so for many years and as such has worked
with Stonewall, a gay rights organisation in the UK on the “Education
for all” campaign against Homophobia in schools. In April 2008, the
group placed posters on some 600 billboards that read “Some people
are gay, Get over It!” Barrowman also contributed his support by
asking people to join him “Help exterminate Homophobia, Be Bold, Be
Brave, Be a Buddy not a Bully”. That same month Barrowman was at
the Oxford Union where he talked about his career, the entertainment
industry and gay rights issues. The event was filmed for the Making
of Me a BBC Programme, specifically for an episode that explored the
science of Homosexuality. Barrowman was voted entertainer of the year
by stonewall in 2006, placed on the 2008's “Out 100” list and in
June 20010 Barrowman met with then conservative leader and Prime
Minister David Cameron as an LGBTQ representative,
Barrowman
is married, having met his husband Scott Gill during a production of
Rope at the Chichester Festival theatre in 1993. The pair, having
owned several homes in London, Cardiff and Palm Springs, entered a
civil partnership on the 27th December 2006 which was held
in Cardiff. The pair were legally married on July 2nd 2013
in California (this followed the Supreme court's decision to deny an
appeal against California's overturning of Proposition 8).
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