Acting

Damien Sargue

Damien Sargue (born 26 June 1981) is a French pop singer and actor. He is best known for his role as Romeo in Gérard Presgurvic's Roméo et Juliette, de la Haine à l'Amour. A French native, Sargue grew up in Caen, Normandy, France with his mother Miriam, his father Pierre, brother Julien, and his sisters Julie and Sarah, until his parents divorced when he was only a year old. He originally wanted to practice karate as a child, but his mom registered him in song lessons in Caen Ecole des Variétés de Caen. He started his career as a singer in 1992 in the program Numéros 1 de Demain in France and with his first single Emmène-moi. Five years later, he auditioned in the show Notre-Dame de Paris for the character of a sculptor but that character was removed of the show, so they offered him to be an alternate for Phoebus and Gringoire. The year 1998 was his first time on stage in Palais des congrès de Paris, being on stage almost 80 times supplying Patrick Fiori or Bruno Pelletier. His breakthrough role came in 2001 when he performed the principal role of Romeo Montague in Roméo et Juliette, de la Haine à l'Amour with Cécilia Cara in the role of Juliette Capulet. In 2004, he provided the French dub for Raoul de Chagny in The Phantom of the Opera by Joel Schumacher. His first album as a solo called Merci was released. 2006 saw him reprise the role of Romeo again in the Asia tour of Romeo et Juliette that launched in Korea.