Who is John Barrowman?

John Barrowman is a versatile Scottish-American best known as a TV actor and presenter and is also a singer and a writer.

He is well known for his self-produced program on the CBBC Tonight’s the Night and his role as Captain Jack Harkness in the science fiction series Dr. Who and Torchwood.

John Barrowman: Birth Facts, Family, Childhood

John was born on 11 March 1967 in Glasgow, Scotland. He is the youngest child of John and Marion and has a sister Carol and a brother Andrew.

His mother was a singer and worked as a clerk in a record shop while his father worked for Caterpillar. In 1975 his family was relocated to Aurora, Illinois by his father’s company where his father managed the Caterpillar Tractor Factory.

John Barrowman studied at Joliet West High School where his music and English teachers inspired him to pursue his love for performing and enriched his true artistic potential.

With support from his teachers, he was able to compete with other schools in statewide speech competitions where he furnished his skills in reading scenes for plays.

As a freshman he won parts in several musical productions such as Oliver!, Camelot, Hello Dolly!, Lil Abner and Anything Goes.

He spent the senior years of his high school shoveling coals for an Illinois Power company but he didn’t like the job. He graduated in 1985 and became a naturalized citizen of The US but maintains dual citizenship of The UK and The US.