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John Barrowman (born 11 March 1967 in Glasgow) is an actor who has lived and worked both in Britain and the United States.

Biography

Barrowman was raised in Joliet, Illinois, and graduated from Joliet West High School in 1985. He is the son of a plant manager of the former Caterpillar Inc. tractor factory in Joliet. While still in high school, he won parts in several musical productions while still a freshman. Between 1983 and 1985 he performed in productions of Hello, Dolly!
, Oliver!
, Camelot, L'il Abner and Anything Goes. He attended university in San Diego, and returned to the United Kingdom in 1990.

Barrowman, who is openly gay, has been with his partner, British architect Scott Gill, since 1991. Despite this long-standing relationship, Barrowman told The Herald of Glasgow that he had no plans to marry, saying, "Why would I want a 'marriage' from a belief system that hates me?". However, he and Gill are to become civil partners, but as Barrowman explained when the couple were interviewed by Attitude magazine, they do not want to call this a marriage "We're just going to sign the civil register. We're not going to have any ceremony because I'm not a supporter of the word marriage for a gay partnership.".

Following the interview, there were several articles about the couple, which also stated that they are planning to become fathers with the help of a female friend, a claim which is based on his interview with The Herald.

Acting career

He has appeared in several West End musicals, including Anything Goes, Miss Saigon, Beauty and the Beast, Matador, Hair, Grease! and The Phantom of the Opera. He was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award in 1998 for his role in The Fix. He has also appeared in the West End in non-musical dramas, such as Rope and the 2005 production of A Few Good Men
, in which Barrowman starred opposite Rob Lowe. Most recently he starred in Cinderella at the New Wimbledon Theatre for the 2005-6 Christmas season.

He has played the role of Joe Gillis in Sunset Boulevard in the West End and, briefly, on Broadway. His only other Broadway credit is the Stephen Sondheim revue Putting It Together (1999–2000).

He is probably best known in the United States for starring roles in several short-lived prime-time soap operas such as Titans with Yasmine Bleeth in 2000 and Central Park West, as well as the low-budget cult film Shark Attack 3
.

He appeared in five episodes of the BBC One science fiction television series Doctor Who (2005) as Captain Jack Harkness, beginning in The Empty Child. On 17 October 2005, The Independent reported that the BBC had commissioned a 13-part Doctor Who spin-off series titled Torchwood (an anagram of "Doctor Who"), set in modern-day Britain and investigating alien activities and crime. The series will star Barrowman playing Jack Harkness, and will premiere in Autumn 2006 . Barrowman is also scheduled to return to Doctor Who in 2007.

Barrowman's musical abilities have been featured in film: he had a duet with Kevin Kline in the Cole Porter biopic De-Lovely
, and he can be seen singing "Springtime for Hitler" in the film of Mel Brooks' The Producers, based on the Broadway adaptation of the original movie.

He also recently performed in and co-presented another new BBC One series for Saturday nights, entitled The Sound of Musicals, in which performers from West End musicals sing songs from the shows.

As a presenter

Barrowman co-hosted the first run of the BBC children's variety show Live & Kicking in 1993–1994, co-hosting the show with Andi Peters and Emma Forbes, before moving on to , a television game show.

Beginning on April 10, 2006, Barrowman will present ITV morning talk show This Morning .

Dancing on Ice

On 14 January 2006 Barrowman took part in Dancing on Ice, where Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean trained celebrities to compete in an ice skating show which took onboard many characteristics of a real ice skating competition. Barrowman's skating partner was World Junior Gold Medalist and three-time Russian champion Olga Sharutenko.

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