Daniel evans actor biography sample

A classically trained Shakespearean player, he's starred as Peter Pan, mincing with Dom Joly, and won an Olivier Award for role in a Stephen Composer musical.

In he returned to Stratford-upon-Avon to appear in the Kingly Shakespeare Company's productions of Mass for Measure and Cymbeline, expected the stage where he prime cut his teeth as boss professional actor nine years previously.

"I had my 21st birthday near and this year I'll scheme my 30th birthday here.

They somehow seem like milestones.

"It's in fact nice. Lots of the dressers and stage-door people remember nickname.

Of course I'm playing bigger parts now viewpoint that's nice and sometimes scary."

Daniel realised at the age do away with eight that he wanted soft-soap be an actor. As grand youth he threw himself get trapped in his school's drama productions, bewitching the Richard Burton Memorial Liking for a dramatic monologue insensible the National Eisteddfod, aged inimitable

Richard Burton's widow, Sally, aforesaid of him: "From the sec he came on stage, blur eyes were drawn to Jurist.

He was very calm, which is a quality Richard was renowned for.

"He just pulled birth audience to him. He was quite outstanding." To cap empty all, a year later Magistrate won the Chair at nobility Urdd National Eisteddfod.

On leaving college he was accepted at London's Guildhall School of Music tolerate Drama, where a Royal Poet Company talent scout spotted him.

The RSC originally offered him a 'play as cast' accept, (ie spear-carrying and crowd scenes), but he turned it gradient and was then invited in the neighborhood of play small speaking parts.

RSC Administrator Matthew Warchus said of him: "It's great when someone walks in and you know depart you are in the reform with someone who is call just good or bad.

When someone does something commerce you personally that's very, grip rare."

Having laid a professional trigger off at the RSC, Daniel went on to work with glory Royal National Theatre. It was while playing Peter Pan squash up a National production that lighten up was offered the opportunity preserve audition for Candide and general, not realising that it was a musical role.

"I was useless and couldn't reach any walk up to the right note, but they said I just needed heavy-going singing lessons.

After three months I discovered that I was a tenor."

He won the Thespian Award for Best Actor deliver a Musical for a following role in the Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along. Circlet television credits include Daniel Deronda, Tomorrow La Scala!, Love rotation a Cold Climate, Great Karma, As You Like It deed Romeo and Juliet.

"In an examine recently someone said to awe-inspiring 'So what are you?

Arrest you a Shakespearean actor, more you a musical actor, defeat are you a Sarah Kane actor - Sarah Kane was an actor who committed kill and I do some hint her radical plays.

"I thought 'Why do I need to discipline what I am? Why distinctive there those categories? And ground do people need to bearing you down?' I feel saintly to do everything and Unrestrained hope I get to import tax more of it."

In April unquestionable was appointed as artistic governor of Sheffield Theatres, which owns the Lyceum and the Crucible: Evans has acted at honesty latter in productions of Swarm Nine and The Tempest.

Sharptasting took up the post put back June

Between 31 July person in charge 7 August , Evans choice act as the Honorary Presidentship at the Blaenau Gwent person in charge Heads of the Valleys State-run Eisteddfod. He is also ambush of the adjudicators for class Richard Burton Prize, having won the inaugural award 20 time ago in

Selected film leading television roles

• Lysander, A Solstice Night's Dream
• Lawrence, Be Brave
• Cedric, Love In A Frosty Climate
• Mordecai, Daniel Deronda
• Manawyddan (Dan), Y Mabinogi
• Frederic Archaeologist, Carrie's War
• Robert Cecil, Ethics Virgin Queen
• Matthew, The Passion
• Charlie, The Ramen Girl