| Intro | British actor |
| Is | Actor |
| From | United Kingdom |
| Type | Film, TV, Stage & Radio |
| Gender | male |
| Birth | 30 August 1977 |
| Age: | 42 years |
Adam Davy (born 30 August 1977), is an actor and multi-instrumentalist.
Biography
Adam Luke Davy, (born 30 April 1977), is a British actor and musician.
Career
From an early age Adam joined the Mushey Pea Theatre Group formed by biographer writer, Humphrey Carpenter, known for creating the character, Mr Majeika, later to be adapted for TV and premiered as a musical in 1995 at London’s Shaw Theatre with Adam played the title role of the 60-year-old magician at the age of 15. In the same venue that year, in rep, Adam Davy also played, Charlie Chaplin and Busby Berkeley in, Babes, the life story of Judy Garland. In an interview he gave with, Libby Purves, playing Mr Majeika he read an extract from the final Mr Majeika book at the Oxford Union during in tribute to the work of Humphrey. Oxford literary festival, which dedicated the last day of the festival as a tribute and celebration of Humphrey’s life. It was during the summer of 1993 that Adam worked with, Terry Pratchett and Rhianna Pratchett in the out door production of, Eric, in which Adam played Rincewind and Rhianna played, Granny Weatherwax from the famed Discworld series of books which have sold millions the world over.
In 1997 Adam Davy won a place at the famed Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, where he was part of the group to receive tuition from the guru acting, Rudi Shelley, who taught such alumni as, Jeremy Irons, Daniel Day-Lewis, Peter O’Toole and Anthony Hopkins. Shortly before graduating Adam was asked to be a featured reader for, The Story of Christmas, with, Aled Jones, Emila Fox whereby, Judi Dench awarded the much needed sum of one thousand pounds to contribute to his final year fees at the drama school.
In 2003, Adam Davy was part of the original west end cast playing, Joseph, in the stage play, We Happy Few, written by, Imogen Stubbs and directed by Sir Trevor Nunn. 2004 saw the play transfer from Malvern Theatres, to the Gielgud Theatre. Adam Davy can be seen in the memorial biopic as the young C. S. Lewis, in C S Lewis: Beyond Narnia filmed by BAFTA Award winning director, Norman Stone, first aired for BBC and was featured as the RadioTimes pick of the day list for the Christmas Special season and for HBO and Hallmark channels reaching a viewing rate of 15 million. With a snappy fast turnaround of about eighteen pages a day the production found they had enough footage to be used for two documentaries so a separate documentary on C.S Lewis’s theories and spiritual beliefs was also aired to record numbers across the networks in the states. Both documentaries featured Adam Davy, who worked with, Anton Rogers, Diane Venora, and John Franklin Robbins.
In recent years Adam performs with keyboard extraordinaire, Ben Waters and his six piece band. The band have toured all over the world. As saxophonist Adam Davy has worked with some amazing musicians including: Charlie Watts, Rolling Stones Drummer, Elliot Randall, (premier session guitarist for, Steely Dan and the, Blues Brothers), Sir John Dankworth, Tim Garland, Kate Robbins, Nikki Lamborn, Never The Bride, Alley McErlaine from the band, Texas, Gary Brooker, Jimmy Valance. He has played in the top venues around the world including, Ronnie Scotts, Pizza Express Jazz Club, The 100 Club, The Half Moon in Putney, Larmer Tree Festival, Camp Bestival, Storyville, Smalls Jazz Cafe, Pink Elephant Jazz Bar, the Cork Jazz Festival, the Rhoda Mcgaw Theatre, The Stables Wavendon, Cartier Royal polo event for Prince Harry and the Kay Club Ryder cup after Tiger Wood’s match. Adam has worked with all three of the major Jazz/music/Poets, Michael Horovitz, Pete Brown, who wrote the hit, Sunshine of Your Love, for the British rock pop group, Cream, and renowned Jazz poet John Hegley.
Session work includes, The Ghost Orchestra, the Paul Jones show both for BBC Radio 2. Between 1998 – 2000 Adam’s soprano sax could be heard on the main music que for BBC Bristol’s primetime morning news. His sax playing was also featured on BBC Scotland for a soundtrack to a live theatre piece at the Edinburgh Fringe, which tied into a documentary on the festival. Adam Davy has also been featured on Songs from Shed’, broadcast online as highlights from the Larmer Tree festival alongside performing on the main stage. Pop video work includes performing for, Joelle Moses, (from the west end musical of the Body Guard), and has composed music for the radio play, Clean Sheets, (BBC Radio 4).
Private life
Selected stage and screen credits
Film
- C.S. Lewis: Beyond Narnia (2005)
- C.S. Lewis: Motion of the Planets (2005)
Theatre
- We Happy Few (2004)
Selected discography
- The Ghost Orchestra (2001)
- The Ben Waters Band Live at the Half Moon (2014)