Todd McKenney - Biography
Dancing with the Stars' most controversial judge, Todd McKenney is a
former champion in ballroom and Latin, and all round song and dance
man. Todd McKenney competed internationally for more than 10 years
before breaking into theatre. Todd began dancing at age three, at
his mother's dancing school in Perth, training in jazz, tap,
acrobatics and ballroom.

Todd was cast in his first professional musical, Andrew Lloyd
Webber's Song and Dance in 1983. Many stage shows followed
including; Cats, 42nd Street, West Side Story and Crazy For You. He
was cast as Nathan Starkey in Baz Luhrmann's 1992 internationally
acclaimed film Strictly Ballroom, alongside both Paul Mercurio and
Sonia Kruger.

A career highlight for Todd has been completing 766 performances as
Peter Allen in The Boy From Oz – winning two Mo Awards, the Variety
Club Heart Award, the Glugg Award, the Green Room Award, the
Australian Dance Award and the Helpmann Award. He recreated Gene
Kelley's original famous tap dance on stage in Singin' In The Rain -
a performance that won him another Australian Dance Award.

In 2002 Todd performed his one-man show around Australia and in 2003
he had sell out performances of his show at Taronga Zoo, then went
home to Perth to appear in Cabaret.

In March 2004, Todd starred in his own production - Todd McKenney
LIVE - at Sydney's Star City for a week of sell out shows. In August
2004, he and Rachael Beck performed with the Adelaide Symphony
Orchestra under the direction of Tommy Tycho. The same month, he
sang with the Western Australia Symphony Orchestra and in September
2005, presented his "Todd McKenney Song And Dance Spectacular" on
the Gold Coast.

In 2005, Todd released his debut CD Just a gigolo, and toured
Sydney, the Gold Coast and Melbourne in his own stage show with
Pauline Hanson.

In early 2006, he will tour Sydney, Canberra and SA in Six Dance
Lessons in Six Weeks with Nancye Hayes. Todd's website is
www.toddmckenney.com.au