Today I'm talking to you about one of my favorite West End actors: Tyrone Huntley
Tyrone Huntley was born in 1989 in Lincoln, UK. In his hometown, he participated in amateur theater productions but after high school, he hesitated between studying law or theater: he fortunately made the right decision and joined the Mountview Academy of Theater Arts. Yet in 2014, when he appeared in The Book of Mormon in London, he decides to study law during the day and to be on stage in the evening. He will not arrive at the end of his license but Huntley assures that this experience has brought him a lot humanly and for his work as an actor.
He graduated from Mountview in 2011 and landed his first role, TJ, in the English tour of Sister Act the same year. After this production, Tyrone Huntley continues the musicals and play. At the Edinburgh festival he is Lanx in Angel City then the Genie in Aladdin at the King's Lynn Corn Exchange.
Tyron Huntley makes his West End debut in the original production of The Book of Mormon at the Prince of Wales Theater where he plays the Doctor (role for which he received a BroadwayWorld.com nomination in 2013 for Best Performance in a supporting role). He is Seaweed in Hairspray in 2014 at Leicester Curve then in the whole of Porgy & Bess at the Regent's Park Open Air Theater.
In 2015, he won the role of Gator in Memphis at the Shaftesbury Theater. Gator has gone mute since witnessing his father's murder and breaks his silence with the song “Say a Prayer”, a very emotional moment from David Bryan and Joe DiPietro's musical.
After his success in Memphis, he played Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar at the Regent's Park Open Air Theater. He was nominated for an Olivier Award for his performance and won the Evening Standard Award for Emerging Talent. Small anecdote: he was not supposed to play Judas but one of the priests and he passes 6 rounds of audition before landing the role!
You can find his interpretation of "Heaven on Their Minds", the cult song from Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical:
He never stops and in 2017 played the role of CC White in the London production of Dreamgirls at the Savoy Theater alongside Amber Riley who plays Effie White. At the Savoy, he charms the public with the musical moment Family.
He leaves Dreamgirls to resume the role of Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar.
Most recently, he played in the play Angry by Philip Ridley at the Southwark Playhouse then in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Watermill Playhouse in Newbury.
More recently we have seen it in Remain To Leave, then in The View Upstairs. In 2020, he joins the cast of Hello, Dolly !, which is slated to open in June at the Adelphi Theater.
He has an incredible presence on stage and shows how versatile he is by stringing together such complex roles, which is why all the casting directors are raving about it!
Otherwise funny little info: he loves to eat cake and go to the gym so as not to feel too guilty, he doesn't like cilantro, plays the piano like a little god and is a pescatarian.
Follow him on twitter @TyroneHuntley to stay informed of all its upcoming shows!