Martin Crewes

Martin Crewes
Born	Barnet, London, UK

Martin Crewes is an Australian stage, television and movie actor.

Crewes was born in London. He moved to Australia when he was 10 years of age, and attended the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, in Perth. Other notable graduates of WAAPA include Hugh Jackman, Lisa McCune and Frances O'Connor. Since graduating, Crewes has taken part in many stage plays and musical productions, both in Australia and internationally, and has also appeared in various television and movie productions.

Crewes' stage musical theatre roles include "Lt. Joe Cable" in South Pacific, "Marius" in Les Misérables, "Claud" in Hair and "Chino" in West Side Story. Other stage musicals include Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, The Wizard of Oz and Aspects of Love.

Crewes originated the leading role of "Walter Hartright" in the West End production of The Woman in White (in which he starred from September 2004 to July 2005).

For his horse riding role as "Jim Ryan" in the Australian musical theatre production of The Man from Snowy River: Arena Spectacular, Crewes, who could already ride, was given intensive riding lessons by expert riding teacher Steve Jefferys so that he would not require a body double for the difficult riding feats he had to accomplish in the show. Jefferys also taught Crewes the difficult art of being a horse whisperer. Horse whispering usually takes years to learn, but Crewes was able to master this difficult skill in only two weeks.

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