Kraig thornber biography for kids

British actor, singer and choreographer (born 1961)

Kraig Thornber (born 1961) is a British actor, singer and choreographer best known for playing the handyman Riff Raff in The Rocky Horror Show and Grandpa George in the musical Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

He is a former member of the National Theatre.

Early life

Born as Craig Thornber in Leicester in 1961, the son of Terence A. Thornber and Sheila (née Baxter),^[1] Kraig 'Pix' Thornber attended Bosworth Community College in Leicestershire before training for three years at East 15 Acting School, graduating in 1987.

Theatre career

In the West End he has appeared in Guys and Dolls, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Oh, What a Lovely War at the National Theatre, Ariel in the original production of Return to the Forbidden Planet (1989) at the Cambridge Theatre and Riff Raff in The Rocky Horror Show at the Duke of York's Theatre (1994) and on the national tour.^[2]