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Layton Williams is from [[Bury]], [[Greater Manchester]]. He now lives in Dulwich, London, as he recently moved to attend Italia Conti Academy of Performing Arts. (http://www.italiaconti.com/) He lives with his two guardians Maria Cooper and Val Cohn through the week but often goes home to visit his Mother, Michelle, his step father, Lee, his two brothers Josh and Regan and his little sister Renne. Layton used to attend Carol Godby's Workshop is Bury werehe started off with basic acting lessons and street dance. |
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Layton Williams (born 13 September 1994) is an English stage actor, best known as one of the boys who played the carrying title role in Billy Elliot the Musical at the Victoria Palace Theatre in London's West End, and as the character Kylie in the BBC UK TV series Beautiful People 2008 and 2009.
Biography
Layton Williams is from Bury, Greater Manchester. He now lives in Dulwich, London, as he recently moved to attend Italia Conti Academy of Performing Arts. (http://www.italiaconti.com/) He lives with his two guardians Maria Cooper and Val Cohn through the week but often goes home to visit his Mother, Michelle, his step father, Lee, his two brothers Josh and Regan and his little sister Renne. Layton used to attend Carol Godby's Workshop is Bury werehe started off with basic acting lessons and street dance.
Career
After several months of training at the Billy Elliot Academy in Leeds, Williams debuted in Billy Elliot the Musical on 26 February 2007. His training was documented on The New Paul O'Grady Show in which he also later appeared on the 25th May 2007 and then in several morning TV shows, TV interviews, and short clips related to the musical. He is the second non-caucasian boy, the other being Matthew Koon, and the first mixed race youth to star in the show. He currently holds the record for the longest period of time any boy has spent in the role of Billy. He gave his finale performance in the show on 29th November 2008. On 31 January 2009, 2 months after his final performance, Layton appeared on the programme Feelgood Factor on ITV, where he and two other Billy Elliots, Tanner Pflueger and Tom Holland, performed a specially choreographered version of Angry Dance from Billy Elliot the Musical.
Williams has studied street dance and drama at Carol Godby's theatre workshop in Bury. He also studied ballet at Centre Pointe, Manchester. Williams was awarded a scholarship to Sylvia Young Theatre School in Marylebone, London and stayed there until 2008. He attended Broad Oak High School in Bury, his home town and also was going to begin a school show but left after a short period and returned to Sylvia Young Theatre School in Marylebone.
He was offered the part as young Michael Jackson in the West End Musical Thriller Live where he did a few performances before he outgrew the role.
Williams got well known to a broader international TV audience as the character "Kylie" - acting, dancing, and singing - in the highly acclaimed 2008 and 2009 BBC Two comedy series, Beautiful People (UK TV series) I and II.
Actor
- 2007 & 2008: Billy Elliot the Musical
- 2008: Beautiful People (UK TV series) I
- 2009: Beautiful People (UK TV series) II