Joseph McManners

Joseph McManners (born 3 December 1992, Canterbury, Kent, England ) is a British singer, film and theater actor.

Short Biography

Origin

Joseph McManners is the youngest son of Hugh McManners, a British journalist and Deborah McManners, although they have recently divorced. Joseph, like his older brother by three years William live with their mother on a 80 acre farm in Petham ( Kent). His grandfather, John McManners, who died in November 2006, was a professor at All Souls College, Oxford.

Musical Career

The turning point in his life called McManners as the moment when he first saw the movie Titanic from 1997 in 2000. Inspired by the song My Heart Will Go On by Celine Dion, the boy decided to become a musician. He learned violin and piano, and has performed in school plays.

In 2004 he took part for the first time in a cast, and was chosen from among 25,000 competitors for the role of the Little Prince in the play of the same. Since the production of the BBC took over, McManners was announced overnight. During the production of the Little Prince in charge of Sony BMG were aware of McManners, and took him under contract for 2 million pounds sterling.

McManners flew to Prague, and where he took his first album - In Dreams - that occurred in the British music specialist stores on December 5, 2005. Already in the first week, the album debuted at number 5 on the charts, and was nominated in 2006 in the category Album of the Year for the Classical BRIT Award. McManners even made it that his follow-up single Bright Eyes Asian music greats like James Blunt or Prince of the chart peaks displaced. In December 2006, McManners and Sony but separated. Reasons artistic differences are called.

Acting Career

Through his vocal talent McManners was committed in 2004 in the title role of Oliver Twist in Marlow Theatre Canterbury. As the BBC adapted a recording of the play for television in December 2005, Joe was also present as the main character.

In 2007 he made his breakthrough as a film actor when he was in the British comedy film Hot Fuzz - Two abgewichste professionals participated. However, the scenes in which he was to see victims of the editing room, so that he was only in the bonus material of the DVD can celebrate his debut as an actor were.

McManners is considered to be single-minded boy who even in 2007 for the title role in Hannibal Rising - How it all began auditioning. He also attended the auditions to the literary adaptations Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and The Voyage of the Dawn. His goal is to become well known in the rest of Europe.

Filmography

• 2007: Hot Fuzz - Two abgewichste professionals ( Hot Fuzz )