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Lochlan Denholm |
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Lochlan at a rehearsal for Urinetown in March 2007 |
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| Born | Lochlan Denholm December 10, 1993 Melbourne, Australia |
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| Years active | 2007–present | ||||||
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Lochlan Denholm (born December 10, 1993, Melbourne) is an Australian gymnast, dancer, and actor. He is one of the 4 boys playing Billy in the current production of Billy Elliot the Musical now showing at the Capitol Theatre in Sydney, Australia.
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Lochlan attended Chatham Primary School and Koonung Secondary College, where, in 2007, he featured as Hot Blades Harry in Urinetown the Musical. His father, Andrew, is a musician and he has one older sister.
Lochlan represented Victoria in gymnastics in 2005, began dancing at the Gay Wightman School that year, and in 2006 began classical ballet.
Lochlan made his debut as Billy Elliot on 14th November 2007. He was sidelined for a few weeks in February and March 2008 with an injury. Corey Snide temporarily rejoined the Australian cast to stand in for him.
Lochlan left the cast of Billy Elliot on 1 November 2008. He was replaced by Joshua Denyer.
The other Australian Billy Elliots are Rarmian Newton, Dayton Tavares, Josh Waiss-Gates and Rhys Kosakowski. Nick Twiney is no longer in the show, Tavares and Waiss-Gates are his replacements. All four of the original Australian Billy Elliots jointly won the 2007 award for Best Actor in a Musical at the Sydney Theatre Awards on 21 January 2008.