Adam Garcia

Adam Garcia (born Adam Gabriel Garcia, 1 June 1973) is an Australian actor and tap dancer. Garcia was born in Wahroonga, New South Wales, Australia. 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. Garcia stayed on 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 the life of writer Oscar Wilde. Garcia played Tony Manero, in the stage version of Saturday Night Fever, which ran from 1998 to 1999 in London. Garcia reached No. 15 in the UK singles chart in 1998, with his cover version of the Bee Gees song "Night Fever", taken from Saturday Night Fever. Garcia's 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, a film based on the Tap Dogs story. Also in 2004 he played a role alongside Lindsay Lohan and Megan Fox in the film Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen as the character Stu Wolff, a drunk rock star, who is part of the band "Sidarther" and he is in Lola's words "a greater poet than Shakespeare". Garcia was the lead tap dancer for the Tap Dogs segment of the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games opening ceremony. 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.