Gossip Corner: Leonard Whiting
British actor Leonard Whiting may best be remembered for playing Romeo at age 17 in Franco Zeffirelli’s beautifully rendered version of Romeo and Juliet.
Leonard Whiting is a British actor who starred as Romeo in the 1968 Zeffirelli film version of Romeo and Juliet opposite Olivia Hussey ’s Juliet, a role which earned him the Golden Globe Award for New Star Of The Year Actor.
Bio: Leonard Whiting is a British actor who starred as Romeo in the 1968 Zeffirelli film version of Romeo and Juliet opposite Olivia Hussey’s Juliet.
British actor Leonard Whiting may best be remembered for playing Romeo at age 17 in Franco Zeffirelli’s beautifully rendered version of Romeo and Juliet.
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Leonard Whiting is a British actor who starred as Romeo in the 1968 Zeffirelli film version of Romeo and Juliet opposite Olivia Hussey ’s Juliet, a role which earned him a Golden Globe Award.
Leonard Whiting was born and raised in North London, in the Woodgreen-Hampstead area.
Whiting ended his film career in the mid-’70s and subsequently placed his focus upon his theatrical career as an actor and writer.
An average scholar, he was graduated just a week or two before beginning work on Romeo and Juliet.
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An agent who happened to be at a recording studio when Whiting, then 12, was making a record with a pop group, was responsible for the boys’ professional start.
After hearing him sing, the agent suggested he try out for Lionel Bart ’s Oliver!
Whiting played the Artful Dodger in the long-running London musical for 18 months, and for 13 months appeared in the National Theatre production of Congreve’s “Love for love”, which toured Moscow and Berlin.
His second daughter is the theater director Charlotte Westenra from his relationship with Valerie Tobin.
Whiting was spotted by an agent at a recording studio at the age of 12.
In the mid-1970s, his voice caught the attention of Abbey Road and Dark Side of the Moon engineer Alan Parsons, who was in the process of recording what was to be the first Alan Parsons Project album, “Tales of Mystery and Imagination “.
He has English, Irish, and some Gypsy ancestry.
Whiting played the Artful Dodger in the long-running London musical for 18 months, and for 13 months appeared in the National Theatre production of Congreve’s “Love for Love”, which toured Moscow and Berlin.
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He has two children: daughter Sarah by his first marriage.
Director Franco Zeffirelli described his discovery, made from 300 youngsters auditioned during more than three months: “He has a magnificent face, gentle melancholy, sweet, the kind of idealistic young man Romeo ought to be.”
Children: Sarah, with model Cathee Dahmen, and theatre director Charlotte Westenra, with Valerie Tobin.
Whiting has married twice, first time to fashion model Cathee Dahmen, and second time to South African Lynn Presser.
Director ‘Zeffirelli’ described his discovery, made from 300 youngsters auditioned during more than three months: “He has a magnificent face, gentle melancholy, sweet, the kind of idealistic young man Romeo ought to be.”
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It was Whiting’s film debut and its popularity led him to be cast in similarly romantic parts.
