Kraig Thornber Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Kraig Thornber Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Kraig Thornber (born 1961) is a British actor, singer and

choreographer best known for playing the handyman Riff Raff in The

Rocky Horror Show and Grandpa George in the musical Charlie and the

Chocolate Factory. He is a former member of the National Theatre.Born

as Craig Thornber in Leicester in 1961, the son of Terence A. Thornber

and Sheila (née Baxter), Kraig 'Pix' Thornber attended Bosworth

Community College in his native Leicester before training for three

years at East 15 Acting School, graduating in 1987.In the West End he

has appeared in Guys and Dolls, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead,

Oh, What a Lovely War at the National Theatre, Ariel in the original

production of Return to the Forbidden Planet (1989) at the Cambridge

Theatre and Riff Raff in The Rocky Horror Show at the Duke of York's

Theatre (1994) and on the national tour.Thornber's other theatre

credits include The Beggar's Opera (Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in

Paris); Sugar (Clwyd Theatr Cymru and the New Wolsey Theatre,

Ipswich); Brassed Off (York Theatre Royal and UK No.1 Tour); The

Government Inspector (Northern Broadsides); The Threepenny Opera,

Happy End and A Family Affair for Clwyd Theatr Cymru; A Mad World, My

Masters; Riff Raff in The Rocky Horror Tribute Show (2006); Mr Mushnik

in Little Shop of Horrors (2009 UK national tour); Sir Andrew

Aguecheek in Twelfth Night (2009) Stafford Festival Shakespeare; Park

Keeper in Mary Poppins (2008-9 UK national tour); A Midsummer Night's

Dream and Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol (2009â€"10) for the

Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough; Oberon/Theseus in A Midsummer

Night's Dream (2010) and The Mikado in The Mikado (2010) for the

Stephen Joseph Theatre; Abanazer in the pantomime Aladdin (2013â€"14)

at the De Montfort Hall in Leicester; an Ugly Sister in Cinderella

(2010â€"11) at the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry; Nanny Nora in

Sleeping Beauty (2011â€"12) at the Royal Spa Centre in Leamington Spa;

Bob Sidebottom in an adaptation of Gogol's The Government Inspector

(2012) by Deborah McAndrew at the Harrogate Theatre; Horace Percival

in Somewhere in England for Clwyd Theatr Cymru (2014) The Front Page

(Chichester Festival Theatre); Fagin in Oliver! (New Vic Theatre); A

Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; The Millennium

Mysteries; Kurtz in Heart of Darkness (Teatr Biuro Podróży, Poland);

The Emcee in Cabaret; Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Queen's

Theatre, Hornchurch); Façade (Pocket Opera); Loot (Watford Palace

Theatre); The Gambler (Everyman Theatre, Liverpool) and Grandpa George

in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2015â€"17) at the Theatre Royal,

Drury Lane.
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