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Luke Evans is a Welsh actor and singer who was born and brought up in Pontypool, Wales. He is widely known for his roles in Dracula Untold as Vlad III Țepeș / Dracula, The Great Train Robbery as Bruce Reynolds, Fast & Furious 6 as Owen Shaw, and in The Alienist as John Moore.
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Honeysuckle Weeks is a British actress best known for her appearance in the ITV wartime drama series Foyle’s War beginning in 2002. [Read more…] about Honeysuckle Weeks Biography, Age, Family, Husband, Net Worth, Foyles War
Keeley Donovan is an English journalist. Donovan is currently working for BBC as a weather presenter. Nonetheless, she also presents for television and radio stations in the North of England.
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Ray Fearon is a popular British actor who has been working in theatre. He is well known for playing garage mechanic Nathan Harding on ITV’s long-running soap opera Coronation Street. [Read more…] about Ray Fearon Bio, Wiki, Age, Height, Wife, Harry Potter, Fleabag, Movies, and Net Worth.
Barbara Knox is a British actress. She is best known for her long-running portrayal of newsagent Rita Fairclough in the television soap opera Coronation Street.
Rachael Wools Flintoff is a British Former Model and entrepreneur. She is best known for being the wife of Top Gear presenter Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff. They are proud parents of four children namely, Rocky Flintoff, Holly Flintoff, Preston Flintoff, and Corey Flintoff.
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Peter Davison (Peter Malcolm Gordon Moffett) is an English actor. He has many credits in television dramas and sitcoms. He is famously known as Tristan Farnon in the BBC’s television adaptation of James Herriot’s All Creatures Great and Small stories. Apart from that, he has had subsequent starring roles.
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Thomas Howes is an English actor and musician. He attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He is famously known as William Mason, the second footman in ITV’s Downton Abbey. He also featured in the 2011 TV film about the Munich air disaster, United. In the film, he starred as Manchester United player Mark Jones.
[Read more…] about Thomas Howes Bio, Wiki, Age, Height, Married, Wife, Kids, Songs, Movies, and Net WorthMichael Crawford is a British Tenor, Actor, Singer and Comedian, who was born and brought up in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. He is widely known for his role in the musical ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ as The Phantom, which earned him both the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical and Tony Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical. He is also known for performing on 19 January 1989 “The Music of the Night” at the Inaugural Gala for President George H. W. Bush in Washington, D.C.
Crawford is 37 years old as of 2021, he was born on 19 January 1942, in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. He celebrates his birthday on 19 January every year and his birth sign is Capricorn.
Michael stands at a height of 5 feet 10½ inches.
Crawford was born to his mother Doris Dumbell-Smith and his father in Salisbury. Our efforts to find out more about his family came to no avail as no such information is publicly available. Thus, the identity of Michael’s father is still unclear. It is also not known if he has any siblings. We will update this section once this information is available.
Michael was previously married to his ex-wife Gabrielle Lewis. The couple tied the knot in 1965 and they were blessed with two children named Lucy Crawford (born 1968) and Emma Crawford (born 1966). They later divorced in 1975 after 10 years of marriage. He then dated his partner Natasha MacAller and later parted ways in 1996.
Crawford has an estimated net worth of $1 million and $5 million as of 2021. This includes his assets, money and income. His primary source of income is his career as a Tenor, Actor, Singer and Comedian. Through his various sources of income, Michael has been able to accumulate a good fortune but prefers to lead a modest lifestyle.
Here are some interesting facts and body measurements you should know about Michael Crawford.
At the final preview of Starlight Express, Crawford happened to run into the show’s creator, Andrew Lloyd Webber in 1984. Lloyd Webber had met Crawford socially several times and remembered him from his work in Flowers for Algernon. Crawford informed Crawford that he was working on a new project based on a Gaston Leroux novel and wanted to know whether he was interested.
He said he was, but the show was still in the early planning stages, and nothing had been decided. Months passed, during which Lloyd Webber had already created a pitch video featuring his then-wife Sarah Brightman as the female lead Christine, and British rocker Steve Harley as the Phantom, singing the title song in the manner of a contemporary new wave video.
He was turned off by that, supposing the songwriter had chosen to do a “rock opera”-inspired spectacle in lieu of a more traditional operatic musical. Since casting Harley, however, Lloyd Webber had also begun to regret his artistic choices. As production continued on the show, the bulk of the score was revealing itself to be far more classical and operatic, entirely unsuited to Harley’s rough, contemporary voice.
Wanting instead a performer with a more classic, melodic voice, as described in the original book, he began yet another search for the perfect actor to play his Phantom. His landing of the role was due in large part to the coincidence that Sarah Brightman had taken lessons with the same vocal coach as Crawford. She and her husband had arrived early for her lesson, and it was while waiting that they chanced to hear Crawford practising the aria Care Selve, from the opera Atalanta by Handel.
Crawford played the role for two and a half years and over 1,300 performances, winning an Olivier Award (Best Actor in a Musical), a Tony Award (Best Performance by an Actor in a Lead Role, Musical), a New York Drama Desk Award, and a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Distinguished Achievement in Theatre (Lead Performance).
In the run of Phantom in Los Angeles, Crawford was asked to perform “The Music of the Night” at the Inaugural Gala for President George H. W. Bush in Washington, D.C., on 19 January 1989. At the gala, Crawford was presented with a birthday cake (it was his 47th birthday).
After three and a half years and over 1,300 performances later, Crawford left the show on 29 April 1990. Crawford admits to having been saddened at his departure, and, during the final Lair scene, altered the Phantom’s line to “Christine….I loved you…”, acknowledging that this was his final performance.
He in 1981, starred in the original London production of Cy Coleman’s Barnum (1981) as the illustrious American showman P.T. Barnum. Crawford trained at the Big Apple Circus School in New York City to prepare for the ambitious stunts, learning to walk the tight-rope, juggle and slide down a rope from the rafters of the theatre.
Upon further training for the second opening of Barnum, he was awarded a British Amateur Gymnastics Association badge and certificate as a qualified coach. On 11 June 1981, Barnum opened at the London Palladium, where it ran for 655 performances. He and Deborah Grant headed the cast.
It was well-received, becoming a favourite of Margaret Thatcher as well as the Queen Mother. He earned his first Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical on the London stage. After the initial production of the show, he worked extensively with Torvill and Dean, and can be seen rinkside with them as they received their “perfect six” marks in the 1983 world championships for their ‘Barnum’ routine.
A revival of Barnum opened in Manchester at the Opera House, ending the tour at the Victoria Palace in the West End in 1984. This production, with a new cast, though still headed by Crawford, was recorded for television and broadcast by the BBC in 1986. His Barnum is one of the longest runs by a leading actor.
In 1999, The Ghosts of Christmas Eve as Himself (performer). In 1993, in Once Upon a Forest as Cornelius (voice). In 1986, in Barnum as P.T. Barnum. In 1981, in Condorman as Woody Wilkins. In 1972, in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland as White Rabbit. In 1970, in Hello-Goodbye as Harry England. In 1970, in The Games as Harry Hayes. In 1969, in Hello, Dolly! as Cornelius Hackl.
Michael Crawford is an accomplished Tenor, Actor, Singer and Comedian, who is widely known for his role in the musical ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ as The Phantom.
Crawford is a British national born on 19th January 1942, in Salisbury.
Michael stands at a height of 1.79m.
Details about Crawford love life are still under review. We will let you know when he gets in a relationship or when we discover helpful information about his love life.
Michael has an approximate net worth of $10 million. This amount has been accrued from his leading roles in the entertainment industry.
Crawford is a resident of New Zealand, Oceania, we shall upload pictures of his house as soon as we have them.
Michael is alive and in good health. There have been no reports of him being sick or having any health-related issues.
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