Michael Ball
Michael Ball was born in Bromsgrove, England, United Kingdom on June 27th, 1962 and is the Stage Actor. At the age of 61, Michael Ball biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, songs, and networth are available.
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Michael Ashley Ball, OBE (born June 27, 1962), is an English actor, singer, and broadcaster.
Marius Pontmercy, who appeared in Les Misérables' original London production in 1985, joined Raoul in The Phantom of the Opera in 1987.
With "Love Changes Everything," a song taken from the musical Aspects of Love, where he appeared as Alex in 1989, he reached number two in the UK Singles Chart.
He appeared in London and on Broadway. Ball represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1992, finishing second with the song "One Step Out of Time."
He reenacted Marius in Les Misérables: The Dream Cast in Concert, 1995.
Giorgio in Passion (1997) and Caractacus Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Bang (2002) are two of his other West End roles.
He has twice been nominated for Best Actor in a Musical by Laurence Olivier.
He received accolades in 2008 for his work as Edna Turnblad in Hairspray, and then in 2013 for his service to musical theatre.
Early life
Ball was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, to a Welsh mother and an English father. Tony, his father, who aspired to be a comedian, began as an Austin apprentice at the Longbridge plant and progressed to become the British Leyland's head of global sales. He received an MBE for services to industry. Ball's maternal grandfather was a coal miner. Kevin, four years old, and Katherine, almost a decade his junior, are two siblings. When he was three years old, he and his parents went to Dartmoor. He never had singing lessons, but as a youth, he learned to sing along to music, for example; Ella Fitzgerald, Mahalia Jackson, and Frank Sinatra's songs. He went to Plymouth College, an independent boarding school, because his parents hoped that this would give him a good education when he was 11 years old. However, this made him unhappy because he did not fit into the school's academic and athletic atmosphere at the time. On Sunday morning at the Pathfinder bible group in St Andrew's church, he joined his fellow junior boarders. On the isle of Jersey, he spent one summer at Pathfinder camp.
Ball was interested in the theatre and his father took him to see performances in the school holidays, including one at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Lear, which captivated him as a youngster of about 14 years old. He attended a youth theater, which culminated in him studying drama at Guildford School of Acting, where he discovered a happy environment. On Saturdays in Guildford, with a female student friend, he went busking to earn a little extra cash. He graduated in 1984. Ball's singing career took off after his graduation. Ball's early singing career were lauded by his maternal grandmother, who had a musical ear; she died as a result of a heart attack about a week before his debut in The Pirates of Penzance.
Personal life
Ball stars with Cathy McGowan, the former presenter of Ready Steady Go! They met around 1989 when she was a entertainment reporter for a BBC London magazine show and questioned him during Aspects of Love rehearsals. They have been married since 1992. She saved his son's life by dragging him out of a house fire on December 23, 2000. Cathy was previously married to actor Hywel Bennett, and the union resulted in the birth of Emma, the daughter. Emma Ball's son is Michael Ball's godson.
Ball returned to Guildford School of Acting in April 2022 to address the graduating postgraduates of the year. Although Ball was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Surrey, the University of Surrey granted it.
Grace Crompton of Ball is a member of England's rugby sevens and was selected for the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
Recent career
During March and April 2007, Ball embarked on an extensive British tour. On the tour, there were 23 dates covering England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Wales. The tour began in Belfast with two nights before a series of shows in the north of England and Midlands. Ball travelled to Glasgow and Aberdeen before returning to London, Birmingham, and Northampton. Ball travelled to Plymouth for his old home before embarking on the final leg of his tour. Before ending his tour in Cardiff, Ball appeared in Ipswich and Northampton. After this tour, he made his English National Opera debut in the lead role of Hajj/Poet in a new version of Robert Wright and George Forrest's Kismet.
In August 2007, he made his BBC Proms debut with Michael Ball at the Royal Albert Hall, marking the first time a classical music performer had been invited to a solo concert at the classical music festival. Ball appeared in the Royal Variety Performance at the Empire Theatre in Liverpool on December 3rd, 2007, portraying "You Can't Stop the Beat" with the rest of the cast from Hairspray, the musical he was performing in at the time. Edna Turnblad played Edna Turnblad in the role of Edna Turnblad in the Shaftesbury Theatre's revival until the 29th of April 2009. Ball appeared on the BBC Radio 4 show Desert Island Discs on March 2, 2008, where he addressed his youth and his work, including his struggle with stage fright in his early career, as well as a little about his personal life. On June 14, 2008, he appeared at a number of summer concerts, including the Hampton Court Music Festival. Ball's Sunday Supplement on BBC Radio 2 went from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Sunday, winning the 2008 Whatsonstage.com Theatregoers' Award for Best Actor in a Musical. He received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical in 2008, his first Olivier Award.
Universal Music released Ball's solo album Past and Present on March 9, 2009. The album features a collection of previously released recordings honoring Ball's 25th anniversary in the music industry as well as six new tracks, including "You Can't Stop the Beat" by Hairspray. To promote the album, Ball appeared on a variety of television and radio shows. In the fall, Louise Clare Marshall, Louise Dearman, Emma Williams, Adrian Hansel, and Ben James-Ellis all appeared in the United Kingdom, marking 25 years in the music industry. On September 19, 2009, Prince Albert Hall's concert was filmed for DVD release. On December 12, 2009, Ball appeared in a "one-off" Christmas Concert to benefit The Shooting Star Children's Hospice, which he supports. All funds raised went to this charity. Children's Hospice and CHASE Hospice Care for Children were among the children involved in the Shooting Star CHASE in 2011, and Ball became a Patron for the cause.
Ball starred on ITV1's Dancing on Ice on February 14, 2010, while Cousins was in Vancouver for the Winter Olympics on February 14, 2010. Ball filmed a television pilot for ITV1, which was commissioned as a complete series in the summer, entitled The Michael Ball Show on February 10, 2010.
At The O2 Arena, Les Misérables' 25th Anniversary Concert was held. It featured Alfie Boe, Norm Lewis as Jean Valjean, Lea Salonga as Fantine, Ramin Karimloo as Enjolras, Hannah Barks as Enjolras, Moinardier, Martha Barks as Enjolras, and Samantha Barks as Marius Pontmercy, with Sophie Barks as Cosette, Matt Lucas as Jean Thunardier, Jerome Smith as Enjolras, Matthew Casts from the new London, international tour, and original 1985 London shows were among the participants, which included an ensemble of 300 actors and musicians. Four Jean Valjeans, John Owen-Jones from the original London cast, Alfie Boe, who performed the role, and Colm Wilkinson anchored the encore, with four Jean Valjeans singing "Bring Him Home": Wilkinson from the original London cast, John Owen-Jones from the 25th Anniversary touring production, Simon Bowman from the original London cast, and Alfie Boe. In a performance of "One Day More," the original cast members of the 1985 cast then led the ensemble. With students from Les Misérables' school productions entering the arena after Cameron Mackintosh, Alain Boublil, and Claude-Michel Schönberg's addresses, the performance ended. The evening concert was televised live to cinemas in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and internationally. In November 2010 in the United Kingdom and North America, a Blu-ray and DVD versions of the 2010 broadcast were released.
On March 13, 2011 at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, Ball co-hosted the Olivier Awards with Imelda Staunton. Heroes was released on March 14, 2011. It debuted at number ten in the UK charts as the 10th best-ranked item in the country.
Ball was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of the Arts from the University of Plymouth in 2013.
Together with Roger Moore, Stephen Fry, Ewan McGregor, Joan Collins, Joanna Lumley, Charlotte Rampling, and Paul McKenna, Ball supports children's fairy tales app in support of UNICEF.
The album debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart on March 29, 2019. Coming Home is Michael Ball's fourth UK number one album and his first solo number one album in the United Kingdom since his self-titled debut album in 1992. "It's the most exciting news," he said in a letter to the Official Charts Company. Thank you so much for supporting the project, as well as the fans who have linked with it and bought it. The hard work has been well worth it, but this is just the icing on the cake.Amazing!
"[3]"In a staged concert performance of Les Misérables, Ball will appear as Inspector Javert opposite Alfie Boe (Jean Valjean). The show will open at the Gielgud Theatre on August 10th and act as a placeholder while Les Mis at the Queen's Theater's original West End production of Les Mis at the Queen's Theatre is replaced by Cameron Mackintosh's new staging of the performance at the renamed Sondheim theatre. On December 2, 2019, the staged festival was televised live to cinemas in the United Kingdom, as well as encore performances in the United Kingdom and the United States. This staged concert has risen to the highest live streamed cinema in the United Kingdom. In early 2020, the live stream will be available as a DVD and CD. On the 5th of January 2020, BBC Radio 2 had the concert on BBC Radio 2.