Gary Wilmot

Gary Wilmot (MBE) is a British TV and stage actor known for his prolific work on stage, especially in musicals and pantos.

Gary Wilmot’s first play, While They Were Waiting, is debuting at Upstairs at the Gate Theatre in 2026, with Wimot also starring.

Gary Wilmot recently starred in A Man for All Seasons at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London and on tour.

In summer 2024 he gave a show-stealing performance in the one-off concert performance of Something Rotten! at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane.

Other recent stage performances include, Studio boss Al Zimmer, in the world premiere of The Artist at Plymouth Theatre; Henrietta Cook, Captain Hook’s mother in the 2023 London Palladium Christmas pantomime Peter Pan and The Wizard and Professor Marvel in The Wizard of Oz, also at the London Palladium.

Gary has starred in a string of television series making him a household name as a comic-actor and singer. He has been a subject of This is Your Life, hosted the Laurence Olivier awards and won a TMA best actor nomination in his musical theatre debut as Bill Snibson in Me And My Girl.

His many theatre credits include The Wizard in Wicked (Apollo Victoria Theatre), Jethro in Prince of Egypt (The Dominion) and Badger in The Wind in the Willows (The London Palladium), Elisha Whitney in Anything Goes (Barbican), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (London Palladium), Big The Musical, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Savoy Theatre), Chicago, The Pajama Game (Shaftesbury Theatre).

Gary’s star turn in the Christmas Palladium Pantomime – which includes as Queen Nigella in Jack & The Beanstalk, Dame Gary in Pantoland at The Palladium, Mrs Crumble in Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs and Sarah The Cook in Dick Whittington – has cemented his place as one of the legends of the iconic theatre.

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