Hallmark actor Will Kemp has had a fascinating career.
Kemp made the transition to the screen in 2004.
Kemp is at the top of his game, but he’s not much of one for the limelight.
“I’m lucky because I am surrounded by great people,” he toldMade in Atlantis.
He trained diligently, sometimes at the cost of having a normal childhood.
Still, Kemp toldThe Grace Talesthat he had a happy childhood.
It was his obsession with making home movies that spurred his parents to put Kemp in dance classes.
“I was very intense about the characters and what happened and stuff,” he explained.
“It reached a point where I wouldn’t communicate well with other people.”
Hoping to broaden his horizons, his parents enrolled him in dance to encourage him to be more social.
Still, Kemp never lost his first love, even after he made it to The Royal Ballet School.
“I was probably the only one, actually,” he admitted.
The passion has stayed with him throughout his decades-long career.
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 finally made him realize it was now or never.
he toldThe Grace Tales.
“I went on several auditions and landed two film offers.”
Well, yes and no.
Yes, because it is exactly what it is, and no, for the same reason."
Kemp did a lot of research on werewolf lore.
He starred in a memorable Gap campaign
Will Kemp has talents beyond acting and dancing.
The 2002 ad shows himdancing in a pair of Gap jeans.
“I began to see myself passing by on the sides of buses,” he said.
It was crazy!"
In an interview withEntertainment Weekly, Kemp revealed that the dancing he does in the ad was largely improvised.
“I just got my rocks off and jumped around for a bit.”
Will Kemp is a self-described family man
Will Kemp is married to composer and actressGaby Jamieson-Kemp.
The couple has been married for more than 20 years and they have two children together.
Kemp told photographerZuzana Breznanikovathat he considers himself to be “very much a family man.”
It all sounds refreshingly normal, especially when you consider that many celebrities hire nannies.
“Having a family really makes me put everything into a job,” he said.
“While away, I’m always asking myself, ‘why am I away from my family?’
It makes me want to make the projects I choose really count.”
Kemp starred opposite “Mean Girls” starLacey Chabert, and the duo went through some serious training.
The training was harder for Chabert, but Kemp helped her through it.
“I’m not a trained dancer,” she toldTV Insider.
“People think that when you dance, you dance [anything],” he said.
“Ballroom is a different technique, so I was nervous.”
The modern Kemp’s Shakespeare connection doesn’t end there, though.
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The play is notorious for a scene in which Alan strips down to his birthday suit.
Kemp was there for the controversy, and even has an amusing anecdote about it.
In anInstagrampost, Kemp said that working with Radcliffe was “one of my best experiences.”
Kemp joined the show in its fourth and final season.
He did a lot of research to bring the historical figure to life and had a blast doing it.
“That and strutting around in leather pants, riding a horse, and generally causing mayhem.”
“Reign” was a real learning experience for Kemp.
He opened up to photographerUrsula Variabout his experience, saying that he worked on letting things go.
“It’s definitely been a time of reflection and questioning and also of acceptance.
Kemp also spent time with his family while in lockdown in London, admitting it wasn’t always easy.
Still, the difficult time proved their closeness.
Kemp didn’t let COVID lockdowns stop him from acting completely.
He described the play onInstagramas “a period piece involving racial inequality and injustice.”
Instead, he’s remained focused on his family and his craft.
This perfectionism has helped him thrive professionally, and Kemp seems satisfied with this.
While Kemp is on social media, he doesn’t seem too interested in growing a massive following.
He has 86,000Instagramfollowers as of this writing, but doesn’t post much about his personal life.
Instead, most of his snaps consist of work-related photos.
