Omid Djalili To Take Over As Fagin in Oliver!
Award winning actor and comedien Omid Djalili has been announced as the new Fagin. He will take over the reins from Rowan Atkinson on the 20th July 2009.
He will star opposite the winner from I’d Do Anything – Jodie Prenger who will continue to play her role as Nancy. The pair are scheduled to star together in Cameron Mackintosh’s production of Oliver! at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane until 12th December 2009.
Cameron Mackintosh has said “OLIVER! has been a success beyond my wildest dreams and I’m thrilled that Rowan Atkinson has had such a tremendous triumph in a role I always thought he was born to play. The only way to follow such a unique performance is with a talent just as unique yet entirely different. No one could fulfil this criteria better than Omid Djalili. Omid started his career as an actor but was soon to become a major television star and one of the funniest comic actors and writers in Britain who regularly plays unforgettable cameos in movies. It is his ability to inhabit his characters with such comic energy and wily cunning that will make his Fagin his own.”
He continues “Undoubtedly the first Iranian ever to portray Dicken’s legendry Jewish creation we all look forward to him becoming part of the family next July.”
Omid is probally best known for his Omid Djalili show which he both wrote and starred in and a second series has been commisioned to go out this year. He has also appeared in many films including Pirates of the Caribbean III, The Mummy and Gladiator.
The new booking period for Oliver became available on the 23rd February 2009 and can be booked for performances up until the 27th February 2010.
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