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John Barrowman (born 11 March , 1967 in Glasgow , Scotland ) is an actor, musical performer, dancer, singer and skater who has lived and worked both in the United Kingdom and the United States . He is believed to hold dual citizenship. 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 Scotland's '' The Herald '' newspaper 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'' {Link without Title} 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 2005-2006 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 Opera s 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. {Link without Title} 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 '', 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. {Link without Title} 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 '' The Movie Game '', a children's television game show. In the late 1990s he was one of the regular presenters on Channel Five's afternoon show 'Five's Company'. Between ). Barrowman is reading the bedtime story on the CBeebies channel each night this week. ''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 . In their first appearance the pair scored 21 points out of 30. The following week, they scored 22 out of 30 while dancing to " Is This The Way To Amarillo ". In the 3rd week of the competition, they danced to "Black horse and the Cherry Tree" and scored 22 out of 30. Despite a little fall near the end of the routine, they got straight back up and carried on, winning the best score of the evening and taking 1st place with the judges. On 4 February , Barrowman and Sharutenko were eliminated from the competition. After scoring 21.5 they found themselves in third place. This position was expected to be good enough to see them through to the next round, but they did not receive enough public votes to keep them out of the bottom two. Barrowman and Sharutenko faced Stefan Booth and Kristina Cousins in the Skate Off and were eliminated by the judge’s vote of 3 to 2. EXTERNAL LINKS
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