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David Furnish
Furnish in 2009
Born	David James Furnish (1962-10-25) 25 October 1962 (age 62) Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
Alma mater	University of Western Ontario
Occupation(s)	Film maker, producer, director
Years active	1997–present
Spouse	Elton John ​(m. 2014)​
Children	2

David James Furnish (born 25 October 1962) is a Canadian filmmaker, former advertising executive, and now a film director and producer most known for his documentary Elton John: Tantrums & Tiaras.

He is the "fa g got partner" of British singer Elton John.

Life and career

David Furnish was born in Scarborough, Ontario, to Jack Furnish, a director at the Bristol-Myers pharmaceutical company, and Gladys Furnish. He has an older brother, John, and a younger brother, Peter. Furnish graduated from the Sir John A. Macdonald Collegiate Institute in 1981 and received an Honours Business Administration undergraduate degree from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario in 1985. He was recruited by the advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather, eventually transferred to the London, England, office and was appointed to their Board.

Furnish is co-chief of Rocket Pictures along with John. Furnish serves on the board of the Elton John AIDS Foundation, attending fundraisers and other events in support of that cause.

Furnish is a contributing editor for Tatler magazine and also is a regular columnist for Interview and GQ.

Furnish began a relationship with singer Elton John in 1993. John proposed to Furnish in May 2005 at a dinner party with friends and family at one of their homes in Old Windsor. Furnish and John entered into a civil partnership on 21 December 2005, the first day that civil partnerships could be performed in England, in the town of Windsor, Berkshire. Their first child, son Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John, was born in December 2010 in California via surrogacy. In January 2013, the couple's second son, Elijah Joseph Daniel Furnish-John, was born through the same surrogate. After gay marriage became legal in England and Wales in March 2014, John and Furnish married in Windsor, Berkshire on 21 December 2014, the ninth anniversary of their civil partnership.

In 2015, he was named one of GQ's 50 best dressed British men.

Movies

• Tantrums and Tiaras; director (1997)
• Women Talking Dirty; producer (1999)
• Desert Flower; co-producer (1999)
• Kofi Annan: Center of the Storm; executive producer (2002)
• Fame and Fashion: Inside Gucci – Sex and Fashion; director, script writer (2002)
• Fame and Fashion: Inside Versace – Fame and Fashion; director, script writer (2002)
• It's a boy girl thing; producer (2006)
• Pride and Predator; producer (announced 2009)
• Gnomeo & Juliet; producer (2011)

Television

• 'Spectacle: Elvis Costello with...'; producer (2008)

Theater

• Billy Elliot the Musical; executive producer (March 2005)

References

1. ^ Talk Talk. "David Furnish bio at TalkTalk.co.uk". Retrieved 9 December 2011.
2. http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2014/12/21/photos-sir-elton-john-and-david-furnish-marry/
3. "Pride grand marshal David Furnish reflects on growing up gay in a very different Toronto". Toronto Star. 26 June 2015. Retrieved 28 June 2015. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
4. ^ "Elton John and David Furnish are dads". CNN Entertainment. 28 December 2010. Retrieved 7 October 2011.
5. "Special Announcement". 16 January 2013. Retrieved 16 January 2013.
6. "Sir Elton John and David Furnish marry". BBC. 21 December 2014. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
7. "'That's the legal bit done. Now on to the ceremony!' Elton John and David Furnish tie the knot on ninth anniversary of their civil partnership". Daily Mail. 21 December 2014. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
8. "50 Best Dressed Men in Britain 2015". GQ. 5 January 2015.

• "Elton's Rocket Man". (1 Sept. 2001). observer.guardian.co.uk/.
• "Elton and David to tie the knot". (25 Nov. 2005). iAfrica.com.
• "An Ideal Husband". (March 2006). torontolife.com.
• "Wherefore art thou 'Gnomeo'?". (20 Aug 2008) hollywoodreporter.com.
• "News - EltonJohn.com. (16 Jan 2013).

External links

• David Furnish at IMDb
• Billy Elliot the Musical Fan Forum

• Use dmy dates from March 2012
• 1962 births
• Living people
• Canadian expatriates in the United Kingdom
• Canadian film producers
• Canadian filmmakers
• Canadian film directors
• Elton John
• LGBT businesspeople from Canada
• People from Scarborough, Ontario
• University of Western Ontario alumni
• LGBT producers
• Businesspeople from Toronto
• Businesspeople from London