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Adam Gabriel Garcia (born June 1, 1973 in New South Wales, Australia), is a
movie actor. He is often credited as Adam Garcia.Garcia is the co-founder
of a dance group, the Tap Dogs, which would later gain international acclaim.
Despite the fact that he has starred in such movies as Coyote Ugly and
others, it was not until 2004, when he participated as rock star Stu Wells
in Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen that he gained mainstream fame as an
actor.
Garcia had for long been an accomplished stage actor before the release
of that movie. He played Doody (which is, in fact, John Travolta's character
of "Danny") in the West End's version of Grease in London. He also played
another Travolta character, Tony Manero, in the stage version of Saturday
Night Fever, which ran from 1998 to 1999 in London.
Garcia was nominated for multiple awards during his stage acting career.
His career transition into a film actor began in 1997, when he played Jones
in Wilde, a movie about the life of novelist Oscar Wilde.
Garcia's father is from Colombia.
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