Morley, Adam

5/10/2009

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Adam Morley lives in London. but grew up in Sussex. He will go on the plinth and dress up as three different characters and dance to his i-pod, because he likes dancing. The characters he will be dressing up as are based on people he has met. He also travelled to Peru for a charity called Kiya Survivors, together with a friend and children from a school in Copenhagen, with which his friends had connections. They set up an orphanage there. He also writes scripts, which he hopes to shoot soon. He worked as runner on a show called Bo-Selector and got roped into acting. He studied drama for his A levels and at university he studied art. He works part-time in a coffee shop where he met the actress Samantha Morton who asked him to be her assistant on a film she directed.