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	\| caption = Furnish in ~~2015~~		\| caption = Furnish in 2024
	\| birthname = David James Furnish		\| birthname = David James Furnish
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	'''David James Furnish''' (born 25 October 1962) is a ] filmmaker and former advertising executive. He is the husband of English singer, ~~songwiter~~ and composer ].<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2014/12/21/photos-sir-elton-john-and-david-furnish-marry/ \|title=Photos: Sir Elton John and David Furnish marry · PinkNews \|publisher=Pinknews.co.uk \|date=21 December 2014 \|access-date=4 June 2018}}</ref>		'''David James Furnish''' (born 25 October 1962) is a Canadian filmmaker and former advertising executive. He is the husband of English singer, pianist and composer ].<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2014/12/21/photos-sir-elton-john-and-david-furnish-marry/ \|title=Photos: Sir Elton John and David Furnish marry · PinkNews \|publisher=Pinknews.co.uk \|date=21 December 2014 \|access-date=4 June 2018}}</ref>

	==Early life and education==		==Early life and education==
	David Furnish was born at ] in ], ], the son of Gladys and Jack Furnish, a director at the ] pharmaceutical company.<ref>{{Cite web \|title=Matt & Andrej Koymasky - Famous GLTB - David Furnish \|url=http://andrejkoymasky.com/liv/fam/biof3/furnis01.html \|access-date=2023-04-03 \|website=andrejkoymasky.com}}</ref> He has an older brother, John, and a younger brother, Peter. Furnish graduated from the ] in 1981 and received an Honours Bachelor of Business Administration (HBA) from the ] at the ] in London, Ontario in 1985.<ref name=":0" />		David Furnish was born in ], ] at ], the son of Gladys and Jack Furnish, a director at the ] pharmaceutical company.<ref>{{Cite web \|title=Matt & Andrej Koymasky - Famous GLTB - David Furnish \|url=http://andrejkoymasky.com/liv/fam/biof3/furnis01.html \|access-date=2023-04-03 \|website=andrejkoymasky.com}}</ref> He has an older brother, John, and a younger brother, Peter. Furnish graduated from the ] in 1981 and received an Honours Bachelor of Business Administration (HBA) from the ] at the ] in London, Ontario in 1985.<ref name=":0" />

	== Career ==		== Career ==
	After graduation, he was recruited by the advertising agency ] Canada in Toronto. At 27, he asked his firm to transfer him to their UK principal offices in London. Furnish flourished in England, becoming the firm's youngest Director of Account Services.<ref name=":0">{{cite web\|url=https://www.thestar.com/life/health_wellness/2015/06/26/pride-grand-marshal-david-furnish-reflects-on-growing-up-gay-in-a-very-different-toronto.html \|title=Pride grand marshal David Furnish reflects on growing up gay in a very different Toronto \|work=Toronto Star \|date=26 June 2015 \|access-date=28 June 2015 }}</ref>		After graduation, he was recruited by the advertising agency ] Canada in Toronto. At 27, he asked his firm to transfer him to their UK principal offices in London. Furnish flourished in England, becoming the firm's youngest Director of Account Services.<ref name=":0">{{cite web\|url=https://www.thestar.com/life/health_wellness/2015/06/26/pride-grand-marshal-david-furnish-reflects-on-growing-up-gay-in-a-very-different-toronto.html \|title=Pride grand marshal David Furnish reflects on growing up gay in a very different Toronto \|work=Toronto Star \|date=26 June 2015 \|access-date=28 June 2015 }}</ref>

	Furnish is co-chief of ] along with his husband, Sir Elton John. Furnish serves on the board of the ], attending ~~fundraisers~~ and other events in support of that cause.{{Citation needed\|date=May 2019}}		Furnish is co-chief of ] along with his husband, Sir Elton John. Furnish serves on the board of the ] as chairman, attending fund raising events and other events in support of that cause.{{Citation needed\|date=May 2019}}

	Furnish is a contributing editor for '']'' magazine and also is a regular columnist for '']'' and '']''.{{Citation needed\|date=May 2019}}		Furnish is a contributing editor for '']'' magazine and also is a regular columnist for '']'' and '']''.{{Citation needed\|date=May 2019}}
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	Furnish began a relationship with singer ] in 1993. John proposed to Furnish in May 2005 at a dinner party with friends and family at one of their homes in ]. Furnish and John entered into a ] on 21 December 2005, the first day that civil partnerships could be performed in England, in the town of ].<ref name=cnn122810>{{cite web \|url=http://articles.cnn.com/2010-12-28/entertainment/elton.john.baby_1_baby-boy-civil-partnership-ceremony-windsor-guildhall?_s=PM:SHOWBIZ \|title=Elton John and David Furnish are dads \|publisher=CNN \|date=28 December 2010 \|access-date=7 October 2011 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110319200124/http://articles.cnn.com/2010-12-28/entertainment/elton.john.baby_1_baby-boy-civil-partnership-ceremony-windsor-guildhall?_s=PM:SHOWBIZ \|archive-date=19 March 2011 \|url-status=dead }}</ref> Their first child, son Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John, was born on 25 December 2010 in California via ].<ref name=cnn122810 />		Furnish began a relationship with singer ] in 1993. John proposed to Furnish in May 2005 at a dinner party with friends and family at one of their homes in ]. Furnish and John entered into a ] on 21 December 2005, the first day that civil partnerships could be performed in England, in the town of ].<ref name=cnn122810>{{cite web \|url=http://articles.cnn.com/2010-12-28/entertainment/elton.john.baby_1_baby-boy-civil-partnership-ceremony-windsor-guildhall?_s=PM:SHOWBIZ \|title=Elton John and David Furnish are dads \|publisher=CNN \|date=28 December 2010 \|access-date=7 October 2011 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110319200124/http://articles.cnn.com/2010-12-28/entertainment/elton.john.baby_1_baby-boy-civil-partnership-ceremony-windsor-guildhall?_s=PM:SHOWBIZ \|archive-date=19 March 2011 \|url-status=dead }}</ref> Their first child, son Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John, was born on 25 December 2010 in California via ].<ref name=cnn122810 />

	On 11 January 2013, the couple's second son, Elijah Joseph Daniel Furnish-John, was born through the same surrogate.<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.eltonjohn.com/news/news_details.aspx?postid=19034cc6-3ced-433a-ba29-c83eeb8c3cf4 \|title=Special Announcement \|date=16 January 2013 \|access-date=16 January 2013 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130120013211/http://www.eltonjohn.com/news/news_details.aspx?postid=19034cc6-3ced-433a-ba29-c83eeb8c3cf4 \|archive-date=20 January 2013}}</ref> After ] ] in England and Wales in March 2014, Furnish and John retroactively converted their civil partnership into a marriage and marked the occasion with a ceremony in Windsor on 21 December 2014, the ninth anniversary of their civil partnership.<ref>{{Cite news \|url = https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-30568634\|title = Sir Elton John and David Furnish marry\|publisher=BBC\|date = 21 December 2014 \|access-date = 21 December 2014}}</ref>		On 11 January 2013, the couple's second son, Elijah Joseph Daniel Furnish-John, was born through the same surrogate as their first.<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.eltonjohn.com/news/news_details.aspx?postid=19034cc6-3ced-433a-ba29-c83eeb8c3cf4 \|title=Special Announcement \|date=16 January 2013 \|access-date=16 January 2013 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130120013211/http://www.eltonjohn.com/news/news_details.aspx?postid=19034cc6-3ced-433a-ba29-c83eeb8c3cf4 \|archive-date=20 January 2013}}</ref> After ] ] in England and Wales in March 2014, Furnish and John retroactively converted their civil partnership into a marriage and marked the occasion with a ceremony in Windsor on 21 December 2014, the ninth anniversary of their civil partnership.<ref>{{Cite news \|url = https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-30568634\|title = Sir Elton John and David Furnish marry\|publisher=BBC\|date = 21 December 2014 \|access-date = 21 December 2014}}</ref>

	In 2016, Furnish sought an ] in the case '']''.<ref>{{Cite news\|url=https://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/entertainment/british-papers-can-report-furnishs-infidelity\|title = British papers can report Furnish's infidelity\| newspaper=The Straits Times \|date = 20 April 2016}}</ref>		In 2016, Furnish sought an ] in the case '']''.<ref>{{Cite news\|url=https://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/entertainment/british-papers-can-report-furnishs-infidelity\|title = British papers can report Furnish's infidelity\| newspaper=The Straits Times \|date = 20 April 2016}}</ref>
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	*'']''; producer (2018)<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://film.britishcouncil.org/sherlock-gnomes\|title=British Council Film: Sherlock Gnomes\|website=film.britishcouncil.org\|access-date=10 June 2019}}</ref>		*'']''; producer (2018)<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://film.britishcouncil.org/sherlock-gnomes\|title=British Council Film: Sherlock Gnomes\|website=film.britishcouncil.org\|access-date=10 June 2019}}</ref>
	*'']''; producer (2019)<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/movies/david-furnish-says-elton-john-biopic-rocketman-is-giving-him-sleepless-nights-37844545.html\|title=David Furnish says Elton John biopic Rocketman is giving him 'sleepless nights'\|website=Irish Independent\|date=22 February 2019 \|language=en\|access-date=10 June 2019}}</ref>		*'']''; producer (2019)<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/movies/david-furnish-says-elton-john-biopic-rocketman-is-giving-him-sleepless-nights-37844545.html\|title=David Furnish says Elton John biopic Rocketman is giving him 'sleepless nights'\|website=Irish Independent\|date=22 February 2019 \|language=en\|access-date=10 June 2019}}</ref>
			* '']'', director (2024)<ref>Stephen Daw, . '']'', June 18, 2024.</ref>
	* ''Goodbye Yellow Brick Road: The Final Elton John Performances and the Years That Made His Legend''; co-director and producer (announced 2022)<ref>{{Cite web \|title=Elton John Documentary 'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road' Lands At Disney In Mega Deal For Hybrid Release \|url=https://deadline.com/2022/05/elton-john-documentary-goodbye-yellow-brick-road-disney-mega-deal-hybrid-release-rj-cutler-david-furnish-1235027368/ \|access-date=18 May 2022 \|website=Deadline \|date=18 May 2022 \|language=en}}</ref>

	==Television==		==Television==
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	==References==		==References==
	{{Reflist}}		{{Reflist}}

	==Further reading==
	*. (1 Sept. 2001). ''The Observer''.
	*. (25 November 2005). iAfrica.com.
	*. (March 2006). ''Toronto Life''.
	*. (20 August 2008) ''Hollywood Reporter''.
	*. (16 January 2013).

	==External links==		==External links==
	{{Portal\|Canada\|~~LGBT~~}}		{{Portal\|Canada\|LGBTQ}}
	* {{IMDb name\|id=0299050\|name=David Furnish}}		* {{IMDb name\|id=0299050\|name=David Furnish}}

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Latest revision as of 17:28, 30 December 2024

Canadian filmmaker (born 1962)

David Furnish
Furnish in 2024
Born	David James Furnish (1962-10-25) 25 October 1962 (age 62) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Education	Sir John A. Macdonald Collegiate Institute (1981) University of Western Ontario (1985)
Occupation(s)	Filmmaker, producer, director
Years active	1997–present
Spouse	Elton John (m. 2014)
Children	2

David James Furnish (born 25 October 1962) is a Canadian filmmaker and former advertising executive. He is the husband of English singer, pianist and composer Sir Elton John.

Early life and education

David Furnish was born in Toronto, Ontario at Women's College Hospital, the son of Gladys and Jack Furnish, a director at the Bristol-Myers pharmaceutical company. 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 Bachelor of Business Administration (HBA) from the Ivey Business School at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario in 1985.

Career

After graduation, he was recruited by the advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather Canada in Toronto. At 27, he asked his firm to transfer him to their UK principal offices in London. Furnish flourished in England, becoming the firm's youngest Director of Account Services.

Furnish is co-chief of Rocket Pictures along with his husband, Sir Elton John. Furnish serves on the board of the Elton John AIDS Foundation as chairman, attending fund raising events 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.

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

In June 2019, to mark the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, Queerty named him, along with John, as one of the Pride50 "trailblazing individuals who actively ensure society remains moving towards equality, acceptance and dignity for all queer people".

Personal life

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 on 25 December 2010 in California via surrogacy.

On 11 January 2013, the couple's second son, Elijah Joseph Daniel Furnish-John, was born through the same surrogate as their first. After same-sex marriage became legal in England and Wales in March 2014, Furnish and John retroactively converted their civil partnership into a marriage and marked the occasion with a ceremony in Windsor on 21 December 2014, the ninth anniversary of their civil partnership.

In 2016, Furnish sought an anonymised privacy injunction in the case PJS v News Group Newspapers Ltd.

Filmography

Elton John: Tantrums & 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)
Billy Elliot the Musical Live; executive producer (2014)
Virtuoso; executive producer (2015)
Sherlock Gnomes; producer (2018)
Rocketman; producer (2019)
Elton John: Never Too Late, director (2024)

Television

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

Theatre

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

References

Talk Talk. "David Furnish bio at TalkTalk.co.uk". Retrieved 9 December 2011.
"Photos: Sir Elton John and David Furnish marry · PinkNews". Pinknews.co.uk. 21 December 2014. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
"Matt & Andrej Koymasky - Famous GLTB - David Furnish". andrejkoymasky.com. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
^ "Pride grand marshal David Furnish reflects on growing up gay in a very different Toronto". Toronto Star. 26 June 2015. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
"50 Best Dressed Men in Britain 2015". GQ. 5 January 2015. Archived from the original on 7 January 2015.
"Queerty Pride50 2019 Honorees". Queerty. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
^ "Elton John and David Furnish are dads". CNN. 28 December 2010. Archived from the original on 19 March 2011. Retrieved 7 October 2011.
"Special Announcement". 16 January 2013. Archived from the original on 20 January 2013. Retrieved 16 January 2013.
"Sir Elton John and David Furnish marry". BBC. 21 December 2014. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
"British papers can report Furnish's infidelity". The Straits Times. 20 April 2016.
Elton John: Tantrums & Tiaras, retrieved 10 June 2019
Elley, Derek (11 October 1999). "Women Talking Dirty". Variety. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
"In my view: Sex and Fashion: Inside Gucci". Manchester Evening News. 13 January 2013. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
"Inside Versace Fame and Fashion (2002)". BFI. Archived from the original on 11 April 2018. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
French, Philip (31 December 2006). "It's a Boy Girl Thing". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
Child, Ben (17 February 2009). "Pride and Predator to give Jane Austen an extreme makeover". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
"Gnomeo and Juliet: Exclusive interview with Elton John and David". The Independent. 9 February 2011. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
"David Furnish". Billy Elliot Tour. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
Wagmeister, Elizabeth (27 January 2015). "HBO Orders Musical Period Drama Pilot From Elton John & 'True Blood' Creator". Variety. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
"British Council Film: Sherlock Gnomes". film.britishcouncil.org. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
"David Furnish says Elton John biopic Rocketman is giving him 'sleepless nights'". Irish Independent. 22 February 2019. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
Stephen Daw, "Elton John’s New Documentary ‘Never Too Late’ to Debut at Toronto International Film Festival". Billboard, June 18, 2024.

External links

David Furnish at IMDb

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Songs Albums Singles Concerts Videos Awards
Studio albums	Empty Sky Elton John Tumbleweed Connection Madman Across the Water Honky Château Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Caribou Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy Rock of the Westies Blue Moves A Single Man Victim of Love 21 at 33 The Fox Jump Up! Too Low for Zero Breaking Hearts Ice on Fire Leather Jackets Reg Strikes Back Sleeping with the Past The One Duets Made in England The Big Picture Songs from the West Coast Peachtree Road The Captain & the Kid The Diving Board Wonderful Crazy Night Regimental Sgt. Zippo The Lockdown Sessions
Live albums	17-11-70 Here and There Live in Australia with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Elton John One Night Only – The Greatest Hits Elton 60 – Live at Madison Square Garden Live from Moscow 1979
Soundtrack albums	Friends The Lion King (1994) Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida The Muse The Road to El Dorado Gnomeo & Juliet Rocketman The Lion King (2019)
Compilation albums	Greatest Hits Greatest Hits Volume II The Thom Bell Sessions Lady Samantha Love Songs (1982) Greatest Hits Vol. 3 The Complete Thom Bell Sessions To Be Continued The Very Best of Elton John Rare Masters Greatest Hits 1976–1986 Chartbusters Go Pop Classic Elton John Love Songs (1995) Prologue Greatest Hits 1970–2002 Elton John's Christmas Party Rocket Man: The Definitive Hits Diamonds Elton: Jewel Box
Extended plays	"I've Been Loving You" The Thom Bell Sessions Remixed
Other albums	Two Rooms: Celebrating the Songs of Elton John & Bernie Taupin The Union Good Morning to the Night Revamp & Restoration
Video albums	The Afternoon Concert The Night Time Concert Night and Day Concert Live in Australia The Very Best of Elton John Live in Barcelona Love Songs Elton John One Night Only – The Greatest Hits Dream Ticket Elton 60 – Live at Madison Square Garden The Red Piano
Concert tours	1970 World Tour Rock of the Westies Tour Louder Than Concorde Tour 1979 tour of the Soviet Union 1980 World Tour Jump Up Tour Too Low for Zero Tour European Express Tour Breaking Hearts Tour Ice on Fire Tour Tour De Force Sleeping with the Past Tour The One Tour Face to Face 1994 Face to Face 1995 Made in England Tour Face to Face 1998 An Evening with Elton John Medusa Tour Stately Home Tour Face to Face 2001 Songs from the West Coast Tour Face to Face 2002 A Journey Through Time 2003 Tour Face to Face 2003 2004 Tour Peachtree Road Tour 2006 European Tour The Captain and the Kid Tour Rocket Man: Greatest Hits Live Face to Face 2009 Face to Face 2010 2010 European Tour Greatest Hits Tour 40th Anniversary of the Rocket Man The Diving Board Tour Follow the Yellow Brick Road Tour All the Hits Tour The Final Curtain Tour Wonderful Crazy Night Tour Farewell Yellow Brick Road
Concert residencies	The Red Piano The Million Dollar Piano
Miscellaneous performances	List of Elton John and Ray Cooper concert tours The Union Tour
Musicals	The Lion King 1994 film 2019 film 1997 musical The Road to El Dorado Aida Billy Elliot the Musical Lestat The Devil Wears Prada Tammy Faye
Documentaries	Elton John: Tantrums & Tiaras Elton John: Me, Myself & I The Union Elton John: Never Too Late
Related articles	Bernie Taupin Elton John Band Gus Dudgeon Paul Buckmaster John Reid Ray Williams Dick James DJM Records David Furnish Kiki Dee Elton John AIDS Foundation Watford F.C. Bluesology Hookfoot Woodside, Old Windsor Rocket Pictures Elton John: The Classic Years Rocketman (film) Me
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