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Biography
Kai Owen is a Welsh actor from the beautiful town of Llanrwst.
Kai went to school at ‘Ysgol Dyffryn Conwy’ and has nothing
but happy memories of his time in school - "I loved school, I had such
a fantastic time, I made mates for life there and I still see them now,
I was a member of the school football team and most things to do with sport,
I played football everyday".
As well as football and sports Kai had a natural confidence to perform,
Kai quickly became involved with the school drama group and staged many
a production with them. "Since I can remember, acting is something
that I've always done"
And with the guidance of teachers Joy Ostle and George Lloyd, Kai embarked
on a three year Acting and Musical Theatre course at Mountview Theatre
school in London.
Kai graduated from Mountview in 1998 and went straight to work playing “Ariel” in “The
Tempest”. Kai has since gone on to become an associate actor at “Clwyd
Theatr Cymru” Wales’ premier theatre company, and under the
direction of the brilliant Terry Hands, has appeared in over fifteen productions
for them.
Kai is a familiar face on the Welsh language channel S4C, playing
Bob Lewis in the award winning series Treflan, from this he played
the part
of Kev
in the long running series Tipyn o Stad.
After playing Kev for three years Kai moved back to London where
he made his west end debut playing the role of Harry Secombe in
Ying
Tong A Walk
With The Goons.
Kai has had various guest roles in top TV shows such as, Casualty,
Waterloo Road, The Syndicate, Fun At The Funeral Parlour and
Being Human.
Kai landed the role of Shiner in BBC One's Rocketman where he
played opposite Robson Green.
Torchwood started filming in the April of 2006 and Kai has
played the role of Rhys in all four seasons. The show has
gone from
BBC3 to BBC2
and the
third and fourth series premiered on BBC1, it broke all
records for viewing figures on BBC3 and BBC2, and the third series
Children of
Earth which
played consecutively over five nights was a huge hit. The
fourth season, a co production
with the US network STARZ saw Kai travel to Hollywood to
film the worldwide hit Torchwood - Miracle Day.
Most recently Kai joined the cast of Channel 4 drama Hollyoaks as Pete Buchanan
and is currently on tour with "The Full Monty" playing Dave.
Kai is a patron of Clic-Sargent - Britains leading cancer
charity for children and has completed three London
marathons (2009, 2010 and 2016) and
several half
marathons to raise money for Clic-Sargent and following
his Hollyoaks storyline NSPCC. Kai is also patron of Llandudno Youth Music
Theatre Group and Harry's Fund.
Kai is married to actress Sarah Annis, they live in Warwickshire, UK with
their son.
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