Adam Davy

Adam Davy (born 30 August 1977), is an actor and multi-instrumentalist.

Adam Luke Davy, (born 30 April 1977), is a British actor and musician.

From an early age Adam joined the Mushey Pea Theatre Group formed by biographer writer, Humphrey Carpenter, known for creating the character, Mr Majeika, later to be adapted for TV and premiered as a musical in 1995 at London's Shaw Theatre with Adam played the title role of the 60-year-old magician at the age of 15. In the same venue that year, in rep, Adam Davy also played, Charlie Chaplin and Busby Berkeley in, Babes, the life story of Judy Garland. In an interview he gave with Libby Purves, playing Mr Majeika, he read an extract from the final Mr Majeika book at the Oxford Union in tribute to the work of Humphrey. Oxford literary festival, which dedicated the last day of the festival as a tribute and celebration of Humphrey's life. It was during the summer of 1993 that Adam worked with Terry Pratchett and Rhianna Pratchett in the outdoor production of Eric, in which Adam played Rincewind and Rhianna played Granny Weatherwax from the famed Discworld series of books which have sold millions the world over.

In 1997 Adam Davy won a place at the famed Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, where he was part of the group to receive tuition from the guru acting, Rudi Shelley, who taught such alumni as, Jeremy Irons, Daniel Day-Lewis, Peter O'Toole and Anthony Hopkins. Shortly before graduating Adam was asked to be a featured reader for, The Story of Christmas, with, Aled Jones, Emila Fox whereby, Judi Dench awarded the much needed sum of one thousand pounds to contribute to his final year fees at the drama school.

Session work includes, The Ghost Orchestra, the Paul Jones show both for BBC Radio 2. Between 1998 - 2000 Adam's soprano sax could be heard on the main music que for BBC Bristol's primetime morning news. His sax playing was also featured on BBC Scotland for a soundtrack to a live theatre piece at the Edinburgh Fringe, which tied into a documentary on the festival. Adam Davy has also been featured on Songs from Shed', broadcast online as highlights from the Larmer Tree festival alongside performing on the main stage. Pop video work includes performing for, Joelle Moses, (from the west end musical of the Body Guard), and has composed music for the radio play, Clean Sheets, (BBC Radio 4).

In 2003, Adam Davy was part of the original west end cast playing, Joseph, in the stage play, We Happy Few, written by, Imogen Stubbs and directed by Sir Trevor Nunn. 2004 saw the play transfer from Malvern Theatres, to the Gielgud Theatre. Adam Davy can be seen in the memorial biopic as the young C. S. Lewis, in C S Lewis: Beyond Narnia filmed by BAFTA Award-winning director, Norman Stone, first aired for BBC and was featured as the RadioTimes pick of the day list for the Christmas Special season and for HBO and Hallmark channels reaching a viewing rate of 15 million. With a snappy fast turnaround of about eighteen pages a day the production found they had enough footage to be used for two documentaries so a separate documentary on C.S Lewis's theories and spiritual beliefs was also aired to record numbers across the networks in the states. Both documentaries featured Adam Davy, who worked with, Anton Rogers, Diane Venora, and John Franklin Robbins.