Wayne Sleep
Wayne Sleep was born in Plymouth, England, United Kingdom on July 17th, 1948 and is the Dancer. At the age of 75, Wayne Sleep biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Wayne Philip Sleep (born 17 July 1948) is a British dancer, director, choreographer, and actor who appeared on BBC shows The Real Marigold on Tour and The Real Monty (ITV).
Early life
In Plymouth, Devon, Sleep was born. His mother enrolled him early with Geraldine Lamb Dance School, where he studied tap and jazz, in the hopes of becoming Gene Kelly or Fred Astaire rather than a ballet dancer. He and his family migrated to Hartlepool, Texas, where they were based. I'm a child of 1951 and spent ten years there. He grew up in Friar Terrace in the Headland and attended Baltic Street Junior School. He began ballet lessons in Hartlepool in 1955 with Muriel Carr, before graduating Leverhulme Scholarship to the Royal Ballet School in 1961 and becoming a senior principal dancer internationally.
Personal life
José Bergera, a West London husband, sleeps.
Sleep received honorary degrees from Exeter, Teesside, and Plymouth, as well as the Carl Alan Award, which is given to by dance professionals in recognition of their contributions to dance.
Sleep was a hit with theatre critic Jack Tinker; the two men were often mistaken for each other. Tinker carried an identically dressed Sleep as his companion at the premiere of a production of The Comedy of Errors, a play in which sets of identical twins are confused for one another. Tinker Jack, Stephen Sondheim's Musical Thriller, was staged at Tinker Jack, the Demon Critic of Fleet Street, in which Sleep appeared Tinker, serially executed several major West End writers (who played themselves) for inflicting such horrific horrors on the city's theatre goers.
The Wayne Sleep Foundation, his charity, supports students who have obtained a place at a performing arts vocational college. He continues to pass on his wisdom through private tutoring and workshops for students of all ages.
Sleep is a patron of the British Ballet Organisation and vice president of the Royal Academy of Dance. He is vice president of the Vic-Wells Association.
Sleep is also a spokeswoman for Prostate Cancer UK and the Royal Voluntary Service, as well as other charities that promote the Terence Higgins Trust and other charities.
Career
He is the shortest male dancer accepted into the Royal Ballet School at 157 cm (5'2"). Many producers were reluctant to cast him in traditional male lead roles due to his diminutive stature. As a result, several roles were created for him by noted choreographers, including Ashton, MacMillan, de Valois, Layton, Nureyev, Gillian Lynne, and Neumeier. Sleep is often chosen for character roles due to his physical appearance. Andrew Lloyd Webber adapted his Variations album as the second half of Stage Show Song and Dance for Sleep in 1982. Mr Mistoffelees appeared in Lloyd Webber's musical Cats in London's West End on May 11, 1981.
On the British television show Record Breakers, he set a world record by doing an entrechat-douze, a jump of 12 beats of the feet. This record has remained unchanged. After being challenged by host Roy Castle who said, "I'm going to beat your record and you've got to beat mine for tap dancing" (the most taps in a minute), sleep later jumped from an airplane for charity (but not on my terms).
Sleep's credits include Tigger in Winnie the Pooh and Villiers in The Virgin Soldiers as an actor. In the Goodies' episode "Football Crazy," he appeared as himself. David and Goliath appear in Sleep's choreography.
In 1981, he was greeted by Eamonn Andrews after a performance of the musical Cats at the New London Theatre.
At the annual Christmas party of the Friends of Covent Garden at the Royal Opera House in 1985, sleep is remembered for dancing with Diana, Princess of Wales.
Sleep appeared in the reality-TV series I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! He appeared in Beauty and the Beast at the Theatre Royal, Windsor, in the 2005-06 pantomime season. Sleep completed a tour of Magic of the Musicals with Marti Webb and Robert Meadmore, as well as appearing as a judge on BBC One's Strictly Dance Fever.
Sleep has appeared in A Midsummer Night's Dream twice (national tour in 2006), as well as Feste in Twelfth Night.
Children under the age of six are encouraged to attend sleep-training sessions. In a performance of High Society, Willy appeared as Uncle Willy and Emcee in Cabaret.
Sleep also appeared in Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway as a team member, meaning Ant's crew lost the game, meaning Ant had to choose one of the team members to be eliminated and choose Sleep.
Sleep was featured on British reality cooking show Come Dine With Me in January 2011, alongside host Terry Christian, Labour MP Diane Abbott, and model Danielle Lloyd.
Sleep appeared on ITV's dance show Stepping Out as a judge with Melanie Brown and Jason Gardiner in August 2013. The show aired for one series.
Sleep and his family attended All Star Family Fortunes in January 2014, competing against Girls Aloud member Kimberley Walsh.
Sleep appeared in the Channel 4 show Big Ballet about overweight ballet dancers in February 2014. Celebrity MasterChef, Kevin Kelly, came in fourth place in the 2014 series of the BBC One cookery competition Celebrity MasterChef.
He appeared on a celebrity version of The Chase in 2015, a game show in which he competed for charity.
In 2016, sleep appeared in the BBC miniseries that followed a group of celebrity pensioners on a journey to India, The Real Marigold Hotel, which was on television from January to February in 2016. He appeared in subsequent episodes traveling to Florida and Japan in December 2016 and then China and Cuba in December 2017.
He appeared in The Real Full Monty in 2017, celebrating the original film's 20th anniversary and raising concerns of prostate and testicular cancer. In the 50 years since decriminalization, he appeared in the BBC's Queer As Art documentary, recognizing the British arts' contribution to British culture.
Sleep won the British version of Celebrity Big Brother in January 2018, finishing in fifth place and the final.
Sleep appeared as an actor in The Virgin Soldiers (1969), The First Great Train Robbery (1979) and Elizabeth (1998). In the 1978 film Death on the Nile, he supervised the choreography.
A Cabaret by the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 2009, which featured excerpts from Cabaret, as Sally Bowles, alongside Siobhan Dillon as Sally Bowles.
He appeared in Cinderella at Cambridge Art's Theatre, Cambridgeshire, in 2019.
In 2016, Jack and the Beanstalk at Theatre Royal, Norwich, Norwich.
In David Hockney's painting George Lawson and Wayne Sleep (1972-75), which is on display at the Tate in London, sleep is a subject.
In "Never Say Alan Again," an episode from I'm Alan Partridge's second series, sleep is discussed. "[My idol] has gotta be Wayne," Michael's Americanophile friend Tex says, although Alan incorrectly concludes he means Sleep. In an approximation of John Wayne's words, Tex tries to rectify this misconception by saying, "Get on yer horse and drink yer milk." But Alan is only more certain that Sleep is the man to whom Tex is referring.
Sleep appears in the film Billy Elliot and in the British stage musical version of this film. (Referencing Sleep was updated on Broadway to Rudolf Nureyev.)
Martin Dear, the diminutive and frizz-haired Green Wing character (played by Karl Theobald), refers to Sleep as the celebrity to whom he was most applauded to be seen compared to him.
Sleep is one of many people to whom Vince refers in Sean Lock's 15 Storeys High.
Sleep appeared at Dame Vera Lynn's 100th birthday celebrations at the London Palladium in 2017.
Sleep was portrayed by dancer Jay Webb on the television show The Crown during its reenactment of Sleep's appearance with Diana, Princess of Wales, at the Royal Opera House in 2020.