1. Alfred Giovanni Roncalli Boe was born on 29 September 1973 and is an English actor and singer who performs primarily in musical theatre.
59 Facts About Alfie Boe
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Alfie Boe is best known for his performances as Jean Valjean in the musical Les Miserables at the Queen's Theatre in London, the 25th Anniversary Concert, the 2014 Broadway revival, the All-Star Staged Concert, and the Arena Spectacular World Tour.
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Alfie Boe played the lead role in Finding Neverland on Broadway beginning 29 March 2016.
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Alfie Boe shared a Tony Award with the other members of the ensemble cast of Baz Luhrmann's 2002 revival of La boheme in 2003.
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Alfie Boe has sold more than one million albums in the United Kingdom.
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Alfie Boe, the youngest in a family of nine children, was born in Blackpool, Lancashire, and brought up in nearby Fleetwood.
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Alfie Boe attended St Wulstan's and St Edmund's School and Cardinal Allen Catholic High School in Fleetwood.
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Alfie Boe performed in public for the first time at the age of 14 at Fleetwood's Marine Hall in a "Songs from the Shows" presentation organised by a local singing teacher Lottie Dawson.
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At the age of 17, Alfie Boe became an apprentice mechanic at the TVR factory in Bispham, Blackpool.
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Alfie Boe enjoyed entertaining his colleagues by singing opera arias while he polished the cars, and one day was overheard by a client with connections in the music industry who was so impressed that he suggested Boe should go to London and audition for the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company.
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Alfie Boe's audition was successful and he gave up polishing cars to embark on a singing career.
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Alfie Boe has not been able to trace the customer who suggested he go for the audition, having lost the man's business card.
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Alfie Boe moved to London and studied singing at the Royal College of Music, the National Opera Studio and the Royal Opera House's Vilar Young Artists Programme.
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Alfie Boe subsequently appeared on the 2002 Broadway Cast Recording released by Bazmark Live.
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Alfie Boe has sung the role at Glyndebourne and the English National Opera.
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In 2006, Boe was signed to the Classic FM Presents label as their first signing in a new venture for the radio station, and his album Classic FM Presents Alfie Boe reached number three in the UK classical chart.
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At the 2006 Canterbury Festival, on 27 October, Alfie Boe performed with soprano Hayley Westenra at a concert in Canterbury Cathedral.
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Alfie Boe toured the United Kingdom with the Fron Male Voice Choir in February 2007 and took part in the first Classic FM webcast concert with soprano Natasha Marsh in March.
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Alfie Boe's role being to bring music, and opera in particular for those children involved.
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Alfie Boe was nominated for a Classical BRIT for Best Album, missing out to Paul McCartney at the ceremony on 3 May 2007.
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Alfie Boe performed with Michael Ball in the English National Opera production of Kismet.
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Alfie Boe performed at the annual Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall on 10 November 2007.
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On 31 January 2008, Alfie Boe performed at the Pleasure Beach Arena, Blackpool to more than 1,600 local children in a special Music Quest concert to introduce the classics to a new generation.
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From 7 April to 13 May 2017, Alfie Boe starred as the romantic lead Billy Bigelow in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel in a limited run at the English National Opera directed by Lonny Price, opposite mezzo-soprano Katherine Jenkins.
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On 3 October 2010, Alfie Boe took the role of Jean Valjean in a concert performance of the musical Les Miserables at the O2 Arena in London to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the show, released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc.
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Alfie Boe appeared as Valjean in Les Miserables at the Queen's Theatre in London from 23 June to 26 November 2011.
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Alfie Boe succeeded Ramin Karimloo, who played Enjolras in the 25th Anniversary concert, on 1 September 2015.
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In February 2019, Alfie Boe announced he would reprise the role of Valjean at the Gielgud Theatre in a staged concert production of Les Miserables.
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Alfie Boe shared the role with John Owen-Jones and starred opposite Michael Ball ; with whom he has performed on numerous occasions and Matt Lucas.
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Alfie Boe was joined by Ball and Bradley Jaden sharing the role of Javert.
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Alfie Boe performed the role in the UK and Australia stops of the tour.
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In January 2011, Alfie Boe performed for English National Opera in La Boheme and The Mikado.
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In March 2011, Alfie Boe performed three concerts in Idaho: two in Rexburg, and one in Sun Valley.
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In May, Alfie Boe performed at the Classical BRIT Awards ceremony at the Royal Albert Hall, in the Isle of Man, and headlined the Hampton Court Palace Festival finale on 18 June 2011.
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Alfie Boe appeared in the BBC Last Night of the Proms concert at the Caird Hall on 10 September 2011 and the Llanelli Choral Society's Grand Performance Concert at Tabernacle Chapel, Llanelli on 24 September 2011.
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Boe began the "Alfie Boe 'Bring Him Home' UK Concert Tour" in Bristol on 6 December 2011, finishing in Gateshead Sage on 4 February 2012.
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In October 2011, Alfie Boe announced that he would appear in the Lytham Proms Festival Weekend on 4 August 2012.
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On 6 May 2012, Alfie Boe performed at the Kauffman Center in Kansas City, Missouri.
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On 4 June 2012, Alfie Boe performed at the Diamond Jubilee Concert for the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II.
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Alfie Boe sang "'O sole mio" leading into Elvis Presley's "It's Now or Never".
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Alfie Boe performed "Somewhere" from West Side Story with American soprano Renee Fleming on the balcony of Buckingham Palace.
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Alfie Boe appeared on The One Show on 30 August 2012.
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In December 2012, Alfie Boe was featured as a guest artist for the holiday concert series of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Orchestra at Temple Square and Bells on Temple Square.
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Alfie Boe performed several Christmas favourites as well as "Bring Him Home".
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Alfie Boe returned to the US in late January 2013 for an eight-city tour, starting in Albany, New York 27 January and ending in Pittsburgh 9 February.
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In February 2013, Boe, colloquially known as the Lancashire Michael Buble, was awarded two platinum albums by the BPI for Alfie and Bring Him Home.
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Alfie Boe performed a three-week, 14-city tour, which started in Birmingham and ended in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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On 15 April 2013, Alfie Boe was awarded a Fellowship of the Royal College of Music from his alma mater.
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On 26 May 2013, Alfie Boe sang "Bring Him Home" at the US National Memorial Day Concert on the West Lawn of the Capitol in Washington, DC.
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Alfie Boe performed at VE Day 70: A Party to Remember at Horse Guards Parade in London on 9 May 2015.
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On 4 and 5 June 2015, Alfie Boe performed two concerts at Symphony Hall with the Phoenix Symphony, filling in for Colm Wilkinson, who was forced to drop out due to illness.
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Alfie Boe appeared as music-hall singer Richard Chapman in an episode of Mr Selfridge.
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Alfie Boe replaced Aled Jones as presenter of Christmas Carols on ITV in December 2017.
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Alfie Boe is a participant in the current reality competition series Freeze the Fear with Wim Hof.
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In 2022, Alfie Boe appeared on ITV's Love Island singing for Davide and Ekin-Su as part of their final date.
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Alfie Boe met his wife Sarah while rehearsing La Boheme in San Francisco.
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On 24 August 2020, Alfie Boe announced that he and Sarah had separated and that everything was "very amicable".
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In May 2022, Alfie Boe stated on BBC One that he had attempted suicide following the divorce from his wife and that he had been hospitalized for five weeks for depression.
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Alfie Boe was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2019 Birthday Honours for services to music and charity.