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Adam Gabriel Garcia (born 1 June 1973) is an Australian stage, television and film actor, best known for the lead roles in the musicals such as Saturday Night Fever and Kiss Me, Kate. He is also a trained tap dancer and singer. Garcia has been nominated twice at the Laurence Olivier Awards in 1999 and 2013 respectively.

Biography
Garcia was born in 1973, to Jean Balharry and Fabio Garcia, in Wahroonga, New South Wales. His mother, Jean, is an Australian and his father, Fabio, is of Colombian descent. Garcia's mother is a retired physiotherapist while his father is a convicted drug lord. Garcia attended Knox Grammar School where he completed his high school education. He also received formal training in tap dancing at Capital Dance Studio in Sydney, Australia. Garcia attended Sydney University but did not complete his education as he left the university to take the role of Slide in the production of the musical Hot Shoe Shuffle, which toured Australia for two years before transferring to London, England. Garcia married an Irish women which helped him to get visa to stay in London and continued to work in West End musicals. On 26 March 2015, Garcia married for second time to his long time girlfriend Nathalia Chubin in London. Chublin worked as a senior marketing executive for PlayStation previously.

Garcia began his film career in 1997 with playing the role of Jones in Brian Gilbert's Wilde, a film about Oscar Wilde. Garcia played Tony Manero in the stage version of Saturday Night Fever, which premiered in the West End Theatre on 5 May 1998 at the London Palladium, and closed on 26 February 2000. He was nominated for his work in the play at the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical category in 1999 but lost to the cast of Kat and the Kings. Garcia also reached number 15 in the UK Singles Chart in 1998, with his cover version of the Bee Gees song "Night Fever", taken from the film version of Saturday Night Fever (1977). In 2000, he played a major role in his second feature-film Coyote Ugly. Later that year, Garcia also appeared in Dein Perry's Bootmen, playing the lead role. In 2003, he voiced the title character in the film Kangaroo Jack but was not credited for that role. In 2004, he also played alongside Lindsay Lohan and Megan Fox in Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, as the character Stu Wolff, a drunk rock star, who is part of the band Sidarthur and is, in Lola's words, "a greater poet than Shakespeare". Between 2006 and 2007, Garcia played the character of Fiyero in the original West End production of Wicked alongside Idina Menzel, who was later replaced by Kerry Ellis, and Helen Dallimore. He previously played the same role during the show's early Broadway theatre workshops in 2000. Garcia appeared in two ITV dramas, Britannia High and Mr Eleven in 2008. In January 2010, Garcia appeared with Ashley Banjo and Kimberly Wyatt as a judge on the British reality show, Got To Dance. He was a judge in the 4 seasons of the competion from 2010 to 2012 and then in 2014. In 2011, Garcia co-starred with Mischa Barton in The Hen Do but the film never went on floor. In 2012, he appeared in Cole Porter's musical Kiss Me, Kate at the Chichester Festival Theatre, directed by Trevor Nunn and choreographed by Stephen Meare. Garcia was nominated for his role at the 2013 Laurence Olivier Awards in the category Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical.

Garcia appeared in Threesome, a 2011 British television sitcom which began airing on 17 October 2011 on Comedy Central and Comedy Central HD. Garcia became the fourth judge during the thirteenth season of the Australian version of Dancing with the Stars. In 2018 Garcia was cast in Dance Boss an Australian reality television dance competition on the Seven Network presented by Dannii Minogue. He judged the competition alongside singer and dancer Timomatic and actress and performer Sharni Vinson.