Fra Fee

Fra Fee is a Northern Irish actor and singer born on 20 May 1987 in Dungannon, County Tyrone. He grew up in rural Killyman and received his schooling at St Patrick's Academy in Dungannon. His early performing experience came through Bardic Theatre before he pursued music at the University of Manchester. He subsequently trained at the Royal Academy of Music, graduating in 2009, and was honored as an Associate of the institution in 2014.

Fee's stage career began with appearances at Belfast's Grand Opera House alongside the Welsh National Opera, in productions including The Beggar's Opera, The Mikado, Sweeney Todd, and The Elixir of Love, in which he played Nemorino in a production directed by John Doyle. In 2004, he served as a guest soloist for Irish tenor Ronan Tynan at a Dublin concert titled "The Impossible Dream." Following his graduation from the Royal Academy of Music, he was cast as Billy Kostecki in the West End production of Dirty Dancing. He went on to play Schlomo in the RTÉ Irish tour of Fame and took the title role in Aladdin at Dublin's Gaiety Theatre.

From June 2011 to 2012, Fee played Jean Prouvaire and covered the roles of Marius and Enjolras in Les Misérables at the Queens Theatre in London. During that West End run, he was cast as Courfeyrac in Tom Hooper's 2012 film adaptation of Les Misérables, appearing alongside Hugh Jackman as Jean Valjean and Russell Crowe as Javert. From November to December 2012, he played Florizel in Howard Goodall's professional world premiere of A Winter's Tale.

In 2013, Fee played Young Buddy in Stephen Sondheim's Follies at the Toulon Opera and Robbie in A Man of No Importance for Salisbury Playhouse. On 16 June 2013, he portrayed Henrik Egerman in a concert performance of Sondheim's A Little Night Music at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford, alongside Janie Dee, David Birell, and Joanna Riding, a role he reprised on 26 January 2015 at the Palace Theatre in London's West End with the same core cast joined by Jamie Parker and Anne Reid. In August 2013, he appeared as a guest soloist on BBC Radio 2's Friday Night Is Music Night. From November 2013 to February 2014, he starred in the title role of Candide at the Menier Chocolate Factory in London, with Scarlett Strallen as Cunegonde and David Thaxton as Maximillian.

Fee starred as Philip Ashley in Dublin's Gate Theatre production of My Cousin Rachel, adapted by Joseph O'Connor from Dame Daphne du Maurier's novel, performed at the Dock Street Theatre in Charleston, South Carolina as part of the Spoleto Festival USA from May to June 2014. In September 2014, he filmed the role of Kieran in the psychological thriller Monochrome, directed by Tom Lawes. He made his Shakespeare debut as Romeo in the Gate Theatre's production of Romeo and Juliet, directed by Wayne Jordan, running from March to May 2015. In June 2015, he played Jamie in Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years in Belfast, directed by Stephen Whitson alongside Amy Lennox.

From September 2015 to March 2016, Fee played Amiens in Polly Findlay's production of As You Like It at the National Theatre in London, with Rosalie Craig as Rosalind. During the same period, he played Man 2 in Sondheim's Putting It Together at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast. In 2016, he played Mole in a new musical adaptation of The Wind in the Willows, with music by George Stiles, lyrics by Anthony Drewe, and a book by Julian Fellowes, in a production starring Rufus Hound as Toad.

Fee originated the role of Michael Carney in Jez Butterworth's The Ferryman, directed by Sam Mendes, when it opened at the Royal Court Theatre in April 2017. The production transferred to the Gielgud Theatre in the West End, where Fee played his final performance on 6 January 2018. His portrayal earned him the 2018 WhatsOnStage Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Play. He then reprised the role in the Broadway transfer in 2018, joining most of the original cast as well as Fionnula Flanagan. The Ferryman won the Tony Award for Best Original Play at the 2019 Tony Awards. During his time in New York, Fee made his New York cabaret debut at 54 Below with a show titled Seisún.

In August 2018, Fee performed the role of Chip in Leonard Bernstein's On the Town at the Royal Albert Hall in a production by John Wilson, having appeared two weeks earlier in the same venue as one of the Jets in Wilson's production of West Side Story. That spring, he filmed the role of Jim in the movie adaptation of Emma Jane Unsworth's novel Animals, directed by Sophie Hyde and starring Holliday Grainger and Alia Shawkat, with filming taking place in Dublin. The film premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival.

In June 2019, Fee participated in a semi-staged concert version of The Clockmaker's Daughter, a musical by Michael Webborn and Daniel Finn, and also performed the same character on the studio cast recording alongside Christine Allado and John-Owen Jones. From October to December 2019, he replaced Colin Morgan in the role of Owen in the National Theatre's production of Brian Friel's Translations, directed by Ian Rickson, alongside Ciarán Hinds, Seamus O'Hara, and Judith Roddy.

Fee plays William Bogue in the Irish horror-comedy Boys from County Hell, written and directed by Chris Baugh, and appears as Fergus in the Irish western thriller Pixie alongside Alec Baldwin, Olivia Cooke, and Ben Hardy. On 21 March 2022, he took over the role of The Emcee in Cabaret at the Playhouse Theatre, again working alongside Amy Lennox. In June 2024, he starred as Andy in the BBC miniseries Lost Boys and Fairies, in which his character and his partner Gabriel, played by Siôn Daniel Young, seek to adopt a child.

Fee is gay and lives in rural Oxfordshire with actor and singer Declan Bennett, whom he married on 15 November 2024.