Scottish entertainer John Barrowman was BOTD in 1967. Born in Glasgow, he and his family moved to the United States when he was eight, settling in Illinois. He studied performing arts at the University of Iowa and the US International University in San Diego. He began his professional career in the UK in children’s television, co-presenting 5’s Company and Live and Kicking, before starring in the 1989 London revival of musical Anything Goes. He starred in West End productions throughout the 1990s, including The Phantom of the Opera, Hair, Miss Saigon, Sunset Boulevard and Beauty and the Beast, and innumerable Christmas pantomimes and variety show appearances. His occasional forays into non-musical theatre include a stage production of Rope, based on Alfred Hitchcock’s film about gay lovers who commit a murder (itself based on the Leopold and Loeb murders). He is best known for playing Captain Jack Harkness, a swashbuckling bisexual time-traveller in the BBC’s 2005 reboot of Doctor Who, scripted by Russell T. Davies. The character proved so popular that Barrowman starred in a spin-off series, Torchwood, also scripted by Davies, making Barrowman the first openly gay actor to play a queer lead character in a British television series. He had cameos in films The Producers and the Cole Porter biopic De-Lovely, and a recurring role in. TV series Desperate Housewives. A staple of British reality television and talent shows, he was dropped from TV dance show Dancing on Ice after allegations that he had exposed himself to cast members when filming Doctor Who and Torchwood. Openly gay since forever, Barrowman is married to his long-term partner Scott Gill, and lives in London and Palm Springs.