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Born and raised in suburban Detroit, Gregory Jbara transferred from the University of Michigan School of Music musical theatre program to complete his BFA in acting at the Juilliard School.
Jbara won the 2009 Tony®, Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk Awards for Best Featured Actor in a Musical originating the role of "Jackie Elliot" in the Broadway production of Billy Elliot. He also starred on Broadway as "Billy Flynn" in the Tony Award winning revival of Chicago. He originated the role of "Andre Thibault" in the Broadway musical comedy Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, also starring John Lithgow, Norbert Leo Butz, Sherie Rene Scott, Joanna Gleason, and Sara Gettelfinger.
Other Broadway musical roles originated by Jbara are "Squash Bernstein" in Victor/Victoria, starring Julie Andrews, and that of dimwitted catcher "Sohovik" in the Damn Yankees revival starring Bebe Neuwirth, Victor Garber, and Jerry Lewis.
Jbara received the BackStageWest Garland 2000 Award for his performance in the West Coast Premiere of George Furth's Precious Sons with Nora Dunn.
Other stage credits include: "Mr. Bunder" in the West Coast premiere of Michael John LaChiusa's Little Fish at the Blank Theatre, "Vinnie" in the Geffen Playhouse Premiere of Neil Simon's Felix & Oscar; "Ike/Bess Truman" in the West Coast Premiere of LaChiusa's First Lady Suite; "Clark Gable" in The Blank Theatre Company's Living Room Series presentation of Mark Saltzman's new play, Mr. Shaw Goes To Hollywood; "Chick Clark" in Wonderful Town for City Center Encores; the Broadway revival of Born Yesterday with Edward Asner and Madeline Kahn; Serious Money with Alec Baldwin and Kate Nelligan; Privates On Parade with Jim Dale and Simon Jones; Forever Plaid, Das Barbecu, and Have I Got A Girl For You!.
Additional film and TV credits include: The Pied Piper and The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. Jbara is the voice of the animatronic radio newscaster in Epcot Center's Spaceship Earth. Disney animated feature credits include "Bruiser/Thug Chorus" in Tangled, featured chorus in Enchanted and "Willie 3/Chorus" in Home On The Range. He also sang Randy Newman's, "You've Got a Friend In Me" from Toy Story for U.S. Olympic Ice Skater, Michelle Kwan's 75 Years Of Disney Music/TV Special.
Jbara appeared as "Kenny" in the Carnegie Hall concert version of Very Warm For May with Jon Lovitz for conductor/director John McGlinn.
Recordings include the Broadway cast recordings of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Victor/Victoria and Damn Yankees!; Little Fish on Ghostlight Records; First Lady Suite on PS Classics; Brigadoon and Annie Get Your Gun on EMI; A Broadway Christmas, Unsung Musicals II, Unsung Berlin, Peter Pan, and Drat The Cat! on Varese/Sarabande; Enchanted, Tangled and Home On The Range for Disney.
Jbara was the narrator for Ripley's Believe it Or Not on TBS, and his voice is featured on the Best Of Ripley's DVD release.
Jbara resides with his wife Julie and their sons Zachary and Aidan in Los Angeles.- Actor
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Joshua Gracin was born on 18 October 1980 in Westland, Michigan, USA. He is an actor, known for American Idol (2002), The Young and the Restless (1973) and Flicka (2006). He has been married to Katie Weir since 6 May 2017. They have two children. He was previously married to Ann Marie Kovacs.- Actor
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Stafford Byrne was born on 27 July 1901 in Kumara, Westland, New Zealand. He was an actor and writer, known for BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950), Sands of the Desert (1960) and All Over the Town (1949). He was married to Barbara Leake. He died on 16 July 1976 in Chichester, Sussex, England, UK.- Actor
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Jonathan Soronen was born in Livonia, Michigan and began his acting career at an early age. He was always a goofball growing up, but dove into the talent world when he turned 10. First, starting out by participating in pageants with his older sister, Jennifer, he showed off some of his singing like a nun talents. His sister then suggested that he try out the acting world due to his wacky behavior. Jonathan then began doing commercials and print work in the state of Michigan, but it wouldn't last as long as he had hoped. Michigan wasn't booming with the entertainment industry and jobs were hard to come by. After many years, Jonathan decided to stick through high school and think about it later. He made sure that he auditioned for and acted in every theatre project in high school as well as at other community theatres around.
After high school and some college, Jonathan found himself wanting to dive back into the acting world, first by doing extra work on Dawson's Creek. He had such a great time and fell in love with the city of Wilmington, that he decided to move there. Upon his arrival, he found himself auditioning for the agency Actors & Entertainers and having them become his North Carolina agent. He then went on to audition for different projects, landing his first on the Volkswagen Micro Bus done by Matt Mosher of AMVF. That was just the start for Jonathan. Within the next two years, he auditioned for films and commercials quite often. Landing roles in _Pink House, The (2003), The New Detectives (2002), Another Day at the Office (2003), A Missed Opportunity (2002), and Trigger (2003). Those were just a few of the works that Jonathan found himself doing. He currently has been writing for the Television show, Life In General that he will also star in for Kearns Entertainment. He is also in the process of getting his Reel out to those interested in his acting ability. Jonathan will keep working until he makes it to the top.- Perry Kemp was born on 31 December 1961 in Westland, Pennsylvania, USA.