Jonathan Bailey (actor)

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Jonathan Bailey (born April 25, 1988 in Oxfordshire ) is a British actor in theater and television. He is best known for roles on the television series Broadchurch and Crashing .

In 2019 he was awarded a Laurence Olivier Award for an originally female role in the music theater piece Company, which was gender-swapped due to his cast .

Personal

Bailey was born in Oxfordshire, the youngest child of three sisters. He attended a public school , for which he received a music scholarship and played clarinet in the orchestra.

He is openly gay and is involved with the Albert Kennedy Trust for LGBT young people who are homeless or in negative circumstances.

Career

theatre

Bailey decided he wanted to act when he was watching a Christmas play of Oliver! With his grandmother . attended with Jonathan Pryce . Through the dance school of one of his sisters, at which he often stayed, he got an agent who put him through an audition at the Royal Shakespeare Company . With this he stood for the first time in 1995 at a performance of A Christmas Carol as Tiny Tim in the Barbican Theater on stage. Next came the role of Gavroche in the musical Les Misérables .

He did not go to a theater school and did not take his university place, but began rehearsing for a production of Beautiful Thing in 2006 right after his school leaving exams .

In 2011 and 2012, Bailey played in South Downs , for which he was nominated for the second year at the Evening Standard Theater Awards as an outstanding newcomer for the Milton Shulman Award. He appeared in roles with singing in a musical adaptation of the novel American Psycho in 2013 and in the two-person play The Last 5 Years alongside Samantha Barks in 2016 . In 2017 he starred in King Lear alongside Ian McKellen .

In 2018, Bailey starred in a homosexual relationship in the early 60s in a 2001 re-production of Peter Gill's The York Realist at Donmar Warehouse . In preparation he read Alan Down's The Velvet Rage and attended the Queer British Art Exhibition at Tate Britain . He said, "I want to find stories that humanize homosexual experiences and Peter Gill does well." In a 2018 and 2019 Gielgud Theater revival by Stephen Sondheim's Company starring Patti LuPone , Bailey played the original female role Amy, who on her wedding day got cold feet with Paul when Jamie swapped the cast, so that in this variant a homosexual couple was shown. He said, “You literally don't have to change a single word and suddenly you have a very honest, glowing portrayal of a man stepping on the spot between queer culture and the heteronormative ideal of marriage. This contradiction and the debate are so relevant right now. ”He won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Musical Role for Jamie . (LuPone won Best Actress in a Supporting Musical Role for Company .) For the Albert Kennedy Trust, Bailey arranged a fundraising gala with Chief Exec Tim Sigsworth in the Donmar Warehouse in 2018 and hosted one with the rest of the Company's cast in 2019 .

watch TV

1997/98 Bailey had his first smaller roles in television series and films. 2001 followed the first long series role in Baddiel's Syndrome . In 2011 and 2012 he played in several leading and supporting roles in the series Campus , Leonardo as Leonardo da Vinci , Me and Mrs. Jones and the animated Groove High .

Bailey was best known for a supporting role in the first two seasons of Broadchurch in 2013 and 2015 as newspaper reporter Olly Stevens, a leading role in W1A from 2014 to 2017 and in 2016 in Crashing by Phoebe Waller-Bridge as Sam, who discovered his homosexual feelings for a house roommate .

In 2020 he will appear in the series Bridgerton by Shonda Rhimes , a film adaptation of the book series of the same name by Julia Quinn .

Theatrical appearances

  • 1995: A Christmas Carol
  • 1997-1998: Les Misérables
  • 2003: King John
  • 2006: Beautiful Thing
  • 2007: Pretend You Have Big Buildings
  • 2008: The Mother Ship
  • 2008: Girl With A Pearl Earring
  • 2009: House of Special Purpose
  • 2011, 2012: South Downs
  • 2013: Othello
  • 2013: American Psycho
  • 2016: The Last 5 Years
  • 2017: King Lear
  • 2018: The York Realist
  • 2018–2019: Company

Filmography

TV Shows

  • 1997: Bramwell (1 episode)
  • 2001: Baddiel's Syndrome (12 episodes)
  • 2005: The Golden Hour (1 episode)
  • 2007: Doctors (1 episode)
  • 2008: The Bill (1 episode)
  • 2009: Off the Hook (7 episodes)
  • 2010: Lewis - The Oxford Crime (Episode: On the Wrong Track )
  • 2011: Campus (6 episodes)
  • 2011–2012: Leonardo (title role, 26 episodes)
  • 2012: Pramface (1 episode)
  • 2012: Me and Mrs. Jones (6 episodes)
  • 2012: Groove High (animated series, 26 episodes)
  • 2013: Some Girls (1 episode)
  • 2013, 2015: Broadchurch (2 seasons, 16 episodes)
  • 2014: Doctor Who (1 episode)
  • 2014-2017: W1A (leading role, 14 episodes)
  • 2016: Crashing (6 episodes)
  • 2016: Hooten & the Lady (cameo, 5 episodes)
  • 2017: Chewing Gum (1 episode)
  • 2018: Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan (3 episodes)

Movies

Video game synchronization

Award

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Mark Shenton: Jonathan Bailey: 'I'm more in awe of musical theater actors now than ever' . In: The Stage . October 27, 2016. Retrieved May 24, 2020.
  2. ^ Introducing ... John Bailey . In: Official London Theater . April 23, 2012. Accessed May 24, 2020.
  3. ↑ Jonathan Bailey shows how sexy a pro LGBTQ speech can be! . In: Hollywood Tramp . April 19, 2019. Accessed May 24, 2020.
  4. ↑ a b Why West End star Jonathan Bailey's speaking out on LGBTI homelessness . In: Gay Star News . January 17, 2019. Accessed May 24, 2020.
  5. ↑ London Evening Standard Theater Awards 2012 - Longlist revealed . In: Standard . October 29, 2012. Retrieved May 24, 2020.
  6. ↑ Jonathan Bailey talks 'Company', marriage equality, and wearing a thong in front of Sir Ian McKellen . In: attitude . April 8, 2019. Retrieved May 24, 2020.
  7. ^ Johanna Thomas-Corr: Jonathan Bailey on starring in The York Realist, humanizing LGBT history and the importance of community . In: Evening Standard . February 28, 2018. Retrieved May 24, 2020.
  8. ↑ Former Broadchruch star 'drew on own experiences' for new gay stage role . In: attitude . September 14, 2018. Retrieved May 24, 2020.
  9. ↑ a b JONATHAN BAILEY wins OLIVIER AWARD . In: Conway van Gelder Grant . April 8, 2019. Retrieved May 24, 2020.
  10. ↑ Marcus Jones: Meet the cast joining Julie Andrews on Bridgerton , a new show from Shondaland and Netflix . In: Entertainment Weekly . July 10, 2019. Accessed May 24, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Bailey, Jonathan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Oxfordshire , England, UK