Name |
Darius Campbell |
Height |
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Naionality |
English |
Date of Birth |
19-August-1980 |
Place of Birth |
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom |
Famous for |
Acting |
Darius Campbell is a Scottish platinum-selling singer-songwriter, a West End stage actor, an operatic baritone, a Sunday Times best-selling author, and an Ambassador for The Prince's Trust.
In 2003 Campbell appeared as himself in episode of the Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks, performing Girl in the Moon at a graduation ball. In 2009 he guest-starred on the BBC show Hotel Babylon, starring as Gennaro Fazio, an Italian magazine editor. In January and February 2010 Campbell competed in and won the ITV talent show Popstar to Operastar, in which eight pop stars were trained to perform world-famous opera arias. He was mentored by world-leading tenor Rolando Villazon, with whom he went on to duet with on the song "The Impossible Dream", to popular acclaim.
He has also worked on a pilot of Beauty and the Beast for ABC. Darius will play Shiro, the beastly bodyguard of the beauty Grace, played by Primeval‘s Ruth Bradley. It’s described as ‘a fantasy re-imagining of the classic fairy tale set in a mythical, dangerous world’. The show is created by Jonathan E. Steinberg (Jericho).