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Captain Jack Harkness first met The Doctor and Rose in 1941 London, when he attempted to sell a piece of space debris to them. When it turned out that the junk was responsible for the outbreak of zomibified people with gas masks fused to their faces he joined in the attempt to put things right, and was on the point of dying when a WWII bomb exploded in his space ship when The Doctor and Rose rescued him. He travelled with them after that, apparently having several unscreened adventures before arriving in Cardiff to defeat the Slitheen, Margaret. Shortly after that the whole TARDIS crew were kidnapped and plunged into a nightmare scenario on the gamestation and Jack ‘died’ fighting the Daleks. Rose resurrected him when she defeated the Daleks but he was left behind. How he escaped and returned to Earth will be explained in upcoming episodes of Doctor Who.
Jack was a bisexual flirt, coming onto Rose and The Doctor, who reciprocated jokingly, but with a sort of affection for Jack as a friend. Initially suspicious of each other they started to trust each other in combat and their parting as they went their separate ways was a unique moment in Doctor Who history. The first time The Doctor had been kissed by a MAN.
Jack died at the hands of the Daleks, but was ressurected by Rose when she used the Vortex to 'bring life' and to destroy the Daleks. He was eft behind on the Game Station, though, and found his way back to Earth, where he eventually became head of Torchwood in Cardiff, while waiting to catch up with the Doctor again. He had to wait over a century to do so. But that was all right, because Jack had become immortal when Rose brought him back to life. He couldn't die. He aged only very slowly.
When the TARDIS returned to Cardiff, Jack took his chance to be united with The Doctor. He was unsurprised by his regeneration, since he had read the files UNIT and Torchwood had on him. He and The Doctor came to understand each other and to trust each other all over again as they fought The Master's plans to turn Earth into a launchpad for his universal domination. He was captured and tortured by The Master, but never lost his faith in The Doctor. Afterwards, he returned to Cardiff and his life at Torchwood.
Jack was again reunited with The Doctor when the Daleks stole planet Earth and Torchwood were instrumental in the fight against Davros's maniacal plan to destroy all life in the universe except Dalek life. Again he proved his courage as well as his faith in The Doctor.
The dying Tenth Doctor found an unhappy Jack drinking alone in a space bar in the wake of tragic events at Torchwood. He introduced him to a young man called Alonso who seemed to cheer him up a bit and left him to his devices.
John Barrowman was bon on 11 March 1967 in Mount Vernon, Glasgow. He currently lives in the UK. He became a United States citizen in 1985, and holds dual US/UK citizenship. He spent the first eight years of his life in Glasgow where his mother worked in a record shop and his father worked for the Caterpillar heavy machinery company. In 1975 the family was relocated to America with his father's work. He spent the next few years of his life in Joliet, Illinois, where his father was a manager at the Caterpillar tractor factory. Barrowman was graduated from Joliet West High School in 1985. While still in high school, he won parts in several musical productions. Between 1983 and 1985 he performed in productions of Hello, Dolly!, Oliver!, Camelot, Li'l Abner and Anything Goes. He attended university in San Diego, and returned to the United Kingdom in 1990.
John met his partner, British designer Scott Gill, in 1991 during a production at the Chichester Festival Theatre. The couple have homes in London and the Bay Area, Cardiff. Despite their long-standing relationship, John told Scotland's The Herald newspaper that he had no plans to marry, saying: "Why would I want a 'marriage' from a belief system that hates me?". However, he and Gill became civil partners on December 27, 2006. As Barrowman explained when the couple were interviewed by Attitude magazine, the couple do not want to call this a marriage: "We're just going to sign the civil register. We're not going to have any ceremony because I'm not a supporter of the word marriage for a gay partnership." The two did have a small ceremony in Cardiff with around 40 friends and family. Among the guests were the regular cast of Torchwood, along with Russell T Davies, the Doctor Who and Torchwood executive producer. The civil partnership was covered by OK! magazine, which published pictures of the ceremony on 16 January, 2007.
He was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award in 1998 for his role in The Fix. He has also appeared in the West End in non-musical dramas, such as Rope and the 2005 production of A Few Good Men, in which Barrowman starred opposite Rob Lowe. Most recently he starred in Cinderella at the New Wimbledon Theatre for the 2005-2006 Christmas season. He has played the role of Joe Gillis in Sunset Boulevard in the West End and, briefly, on Broadway. His only other Broadway credit is the Stephen Sondheim revue Putting It Together (1999–2000). In 2002, he appeared in the central role of Bobby in Sondheim's Company in the Kennedy Center's Stephen Sondheim Celebration. He is probably best known in the United States for starring roles in several short-lived prime-time soap operas such as Titans with Yasmine Bleeth in 2000 and Central Park West, as well as the low-budget cult film Shark Attack 3: Megalodon. John Barrowman, who is openly gay, was under consideration for the role of Will in the popular US series "Will and Grace" but the producers felt he was "too straight" and the role went to Eric McCormack instead, who is straight. "The sad thing is it's run by gay men and women," he said in a January 2006 article. He later expressed contempt at the idea that all gay men act the same way.
He appeared in five episodes of Doctor Who as Captain Jack Harkness, beginning in The Empty Child. He is now continuing the role of Jack Harkness, starring in Torchwood the spin-off series set in modern-day Cardiff and investigating alien activities and crime. In both shows the character is portrayed as omnisexual. Torchwood has been renewed for a second series. He returned to Doctor Who in 2007, appearing in three of the final four episodes of the show's third season, as well as a "Doctor Who" special of the show "Weakest Link". John Barrowman's musical abilities have been featured in film: he had a duet with Kevin Kline in the Cole Porter biopic De-Lovely, and he sang "Springtime for Hitler" in the film of Mel Brooks' The Producers, based on the Broadway adaptation of the original movie. He also recently performed in and co-presented another new BBC One series for Saturday nights, entitled The Sound of Musicals, in which performers from West End musicals sing songs from the shows. For the 2006/7 pantomime season, he appeared as Jack in Jack and the Beanstalk at the New Theatre in Cardiff.
During January and February 2006 Barrowman took part in the ITV1 series Dancing on Ice, where Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean trained celebrities to compete in an ice skating show which took onboard many characteristics of a real ice skating competition. Barrowman's skating partner was World Junior Gold Medalist and three-time Russian champion Olga Sharutenko. Although a favourite to win, on 4 February, Barrowman and Sharutenko faced Stefan Booth and Kristina Cousins in the skate off and were eliminated by the judge's vote of 3 to 2. Between 10 April and 14 April 2006, John presented ITV's morning talk show This Morning whilst Phillip Schofield took an Easter Break. Between 1 May and 5 May 2006, he read bedtime stories on the CBeebies channel. In Summer 2006, he was on the Judges panel of BBC One's How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria? music talent show alongside Andrew Lloyd Webber, David Ian, and Zoe Tyler. On December 31, 2006, John made two television appearances. The first was on BBC Television's Heaven and Earth, hosted by Gloria Hunniford. On it he talked about spirituality and civil partnerships. His second appearance was as a guest on a team with Craig Revel Horwood and Louis Walsh, on Graham Norton's one-off programme, The Big Finish which was also broadcast on BBC Television. It was a light-hearted look at news stories in 2006.
On February 11, 2007 he co-presented the E!: Entertainment Television BAFTA Film Awards red carpet coverage with Ruby Wax. He also guest-presented two editions of the Elaine Paige Show, a pre-recorded BBC Radio 2 weekly Musical Theatre and Film Music showcase. The first edition which was broadcast on February 11, 2007, and the second was broadcast on February 18, 2007. In 2007 Barrowman was a judge in the BBC One television series "Any Dream Will Do". He resultantly featured on BBC Two comedy panel quiz show Never Mind the Buzzcocks (Series 19, Episode 5), "Al Murray's Happy Hour", "The Charlotte Church Show", and Friday Night with Jonathan Ross. John took part in the Doctor Who Weakest Link, Which aired on the 30 March 2007 however he didn't make it into the final. John Barrowman is bidialectal. He learned an American accent after school children picked on his Scottish accent when he moved to the USA. He speaks with a Scottish accent when at home with his parents. His biography, Anything Goes, was pulished in 2007. His sistrt Carole co-wrote it.
Film and TV "Doctor Who" The Empty Child (21 May 2005) - Jack Harkness
"Torchwood"
Children of Earth (20090
Before Doctor Who and Torchwood The Producers (2005) .... Lead Tenor
Soundtrack:
Himself
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