Layton Williams Biography
Layton Williams is an English actor, best known for his appearance in Billy Elliot the Musical at the Victoria Palace Theatre in London’s West End, and in the BBC TV series Beautiful People 2008 and 2009.
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He has considered road move and dramatization at Carol Godby’s Theater workshop in Bury, Greater Manchester. He likewise examined artful dance at Center Pointe, Manchester. Williams was granted a grant to Sylvia Young Theater School in Marylebone, London and remained there until 2008. He went to Broad Oak High School in Bury, the place where he grew up, however at this point goes to the Italia Conti Academy of Theater Arts. During his time at the Italia Conti Academy of Theater, Arts Williams was included in a kids’ narrative ‘School for Stars’ which was communicated on the youngsters’ TV slot CBBC.
Layton Williams Age
Williams was born on 13 September 1994 in Bury, United Kingdom. He is 24 years old as of 2018
Layton Williams Family
His father was born in the UK, his grandparents are from Jamaica. Nothing more has been revealed about his family. His mother and siblings are not known
Layton Williams Gay
He is an open gay. He said in an interview that, he accepted himself as gay after he moved to London to do Billy and he was surrounded by more gay men
Layton Williams Bad Education
Williams was cast as Stephen Carmichael, a camp, gay member of the class in the British television sitcom Bad Education. It is not known if Carmichael had ever openly come out, but offered to in “Sex Education” in order to aid Alfie’s sex education class. So, it was a verifiable truth to Alfie and different understudies, and he endeavored to shroud his camp nature. This was best communicated in “Prom” when he overlooked normal exhortation and went to the prom in his drag ruler persona. He has the energy for moving, musicals and movies. He was closest companions with Chantelle and in the Christmas uncommon started an association with Frank Grayson after they were both in Alfie’s Christmas Play, “Robocracker”
Layton Williams CBBC
During his time at the Italia Conti Academy of Theater Arts Williams was included in a youngsters’ narrative ‘School for Stars’ which was communicated on the kids’ TV station CBBC.
Layton Williams Rent
He began playing Angel in the 20th-anniversary tour of Rent around the UK from 2016. The production, particularly his performance, received rave reviews
Layton Williams Billy Elliot
He appeared in Billy Elliot the Musical on February 26, 2007, following a while of preparing at the Billy Elliot Academy in Leeds. He did loads of advancement for the show, and his preparation was recorded on The Paul O’Grady Show.
He is the second non-Caucasian kid, the other being Matthew Koon, and the primary blended race kid to star in the show. He gave his finale execution in the melodic on November 29, 2008 — and he is as yet the second-longest running entertainer as Billy in the show’s history.
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Bad Education Star Layton Williams On Coming Out And Playing Gay
Plucked from school in Manchester aged just 11 to train at the Billy Elliot Academy after responding to a newspaper advert on a whim, Brian Layton went on to fulfill every aspiring theatre fan’s childhood dream as the West End musical’s longest-serving young lead. From Billy, he landed his first TV role on BBC Two’s comedy series Beautiful People in 2008, about two fey little boys growing up in 90s Reading who dream of a life with the ‘beautiful people’ of the big city.
From there, he made a splash in Jack Whitehall’s smash hit BBC Three comedy Bad Education, in his scene-stealing role as camp-as-tits student Stephen. With the much-hyped Bad Education movie already in the bag and a return to the London stage in The Car Man and soon-to-be Hairspray, Layton’s star is firmly on the ascent: what better time for us to chat with the magnetic 20-year-old performer…
Your character Stephen is one of the highlights of Bad Education, and it’s a really positive representation of a flamboyantly gay character who’s totally accepted in the classroom… I get lads on the street come up to me and I think, ‘Oh my god, I’m about to get beaten up’ and then they’re like ‘Loved you in Bad Education man’. Literally, the number of times I think I’m about to get shanked and then it turns out they love it, I’m like ‘What?!’ [laughs] Obviously if you’re the Stephen of the classroom, maybe you can be a bit more comfortable being yourself. It’s quite nice to represent that because I was that guy at school as well.
And there are people out there struggling and if we can slap some comedy on it and make it fun to be that person and portray them not being bullied, then why not? And when did you really come to terms with your own sexuality? I think I always knew. I’m not sure everybody does, but I always did — dating back to like, the PE teacher at primary school! But I think it was when I moved to London to do Billy and I was surrounded by more gay men in the show and stuff, I was like, ‘Oh right, so that’s what I am’.
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And doing Billy, there were so many of us boys that were all curious. We were all kind of coming to terms with our sexuality, so all together we realized ‘Oh my God we’re all the same’. There were quite a few [love] triangles. We were in such a good place to just really explore and be who we wanted to be — compared to my school at home, where there was maybe one person who was out. I actually envy not coming out properly at school though because I think I should have just been proud to be me, but obviously, it wasn’t the time.
Did the fact you were playing such camp characters in the public eye at that age cause any problems or did it make it easier to be yourself in some ways? Yeah, there was a time in between the first and second season of Beautiful People where I had to go back to a normal school and I was like, ‘Ugh, this is not cute’. I didn’t really think about the fact that everyone was going to see it, even people back home where I wasn’t comfortable being myself, because I was like ‘Well I’m going to be on the TV’.
So I’d go back home and just shrink and not be that person. Obviously, everyone was like ‘You big gay boy, I’ve seen you on TV being a gay boy’, there was no getting away from it. It was by the second series when I started at Italia Conti that I said, ‘You know what, I’m gay’. There was never that sit-down conversation. To be honest I think that’s awful. Straight people don’t have to come out, do they? So to my mum, I was like, ‘By the way, I’m gay’ and she was like, ‘By the way, I know!’ But my dad did have a sit-down conversation with me telling me to be careful in Jamaica.
Is that where his side of the family’s from? Yeah, my grandparents are from Jamaica and my dad was born here, but it’s such a taboo there. It’s a part of me but I’m not proud of that part of Jamaican culture because I can’t get over how awfully homophobic it can be. I went to visit the Jamaican side of my family but I couldn’t go there for pleasure, not if I can’t walk down the street holding my boyfriend’s hand. I was still rocking my pink short shorts, I wasn’t reining it in! But I definitely wasn’t discussed all that with the Jamaican end of the family.
Source: attitude.co.uk