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Alex Andreas (English actor)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 27, 2024
Entity authorityQ23418942 ↗
Source-derived summary

Alex Andreas (formerly Alex Andrea) (born 9 September 1970) is an English actor/singer. He trained at the London School of Musical Theatre (LSMT), and is probably best known for his portrayal on stage of The Big Bopper in The Buddy Holly Story, between 1996–2001, in Hamburg, Germany, and on tour in the UK. He is currently playing Tony Scibelli in The Bodyguard Musical UK No. 1 Tour.

Before Andreas did his formal training at LSMT, he worked as a bodyguard for The Gap Band and Eurythmics. After leaving LSMT, Andreas went on to play The Big Bopper in The Buddy Holly Story. He then went on to work in film and television, including Snatch. Some of his television credits include the BBC comedy My Hero and the Channel 4 show Make My Day.

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External links

Big Bopper Interview Hamburg Germany 02. 11 February 2013 – via YouTube.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Alex Andreas (English actor)” as actor. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1970, 1996, 2001, 2013—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1970-09-09. The account is most persuasive where Alex, Andreas and English can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as actor. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 27, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q23418942. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1970, 1996, 2001 and 2013.

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This entry incorporates text from “Alex Andreas (English actor)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.