John Barrowman
John Barrowman
John Scot Barrowman, MBE, is a Scottish-American actor, singer, dancer, presenter and writer who holds both British and American citizenship. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, he emigrated to the United States with his family in 1975. Encouraged by his high school teachers, Barrowman studied performing arts at the United States International University in San Diego before landing the role of Billy Crocker in Cole Porter's Anything Goes at London's West End...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth11 March 1967
CountryUnited States of America
We get the scripts before the table read, but I don't look at them until we go into the table read. I don't want to know, when I'm playing a moment in the current episode, what's going to happen because it might change how I'm playing that.
I'm not one of those actors who likes to analyze things too much, so I trust what the writers are doing with the characters, in order to give them their journey. My job is to come in and try to make those words on the page come alive on camera.
I was the one who taught my sister and my niece how to walk in high heels.
I don't think nudity is a bad thing, I don't think people should be embarrassed about their bodies, and I don't mind whipping it out.
I don't call myself an actor, I call myself an entertainer, because I don't just do one thing.
If you do something and it goes wrong, you learn from it and you move on.
Love is love, no matter who you fall in love with, love is love, it can be painful, it can be wonderful.
If you put a label on yourself, people will pigeonhole you.
My humour and my work ethic definitely come from my Scottish side, and I have to say the sense of humour doesn't really translate when I'm in America.
You have to do bad things in order to become a hero. You have to make sacrifices.
My first professional job was actually at a place called Opryland U.S.A., which no longer exists, but I've been performing since I was a kid.
I'm a fan of comic books. I'm a nerd. I'm a geek. I'm all that stuff.
You know, every year 'Torchwood' has become something a little different than it was before. It's still sci-fi, but it doesn't just deal with spaceships and aliens all the time, because we've done that. Our science fiction is more psychological.
Fit men walking around and bathing, it would be just like being in Ancient Rome [on a footballers dressing room