Tim Minchin is an Australian musician, actor, comedian and writer. He has been performing his unique brand of musical comedy in front of appropriately excitable and ever growing audiences since starting out in South Melbourne’s Butterfly Club in 2005. He won the Director’s Award at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival for his break-out show Darkside, and followed this later the same year with one of the most successful debut acts ever at the Edinburgh Fringe – winning the Perrier Award for Best Newcomer. Without wanting to go on and on about it, he’s done some pretty successful live shows since then, often in Australia or the UK, but also on the North American continent (yes that includes you too Canada). But not you Guatemala. Maybe one day. His current songs span topics such as environmentalism, rationalism, prejudice(ism) and his amour de boobs(ism). In fact it would hardly be over the top to say that his love of boobs would be up there in the back of Plato’s cave in the bit that’s carved out for the most perfect and complete example of the love of boobs. But not in a weird way. During his shows he plays the piano, always nicely and oftentimes wildly and excitingly, whilst looking wonderfully athletic, in a pair of delightfully uncomfortable skinny jeans. Tim has made many TV appearances: most recently on Good News Week in Australia and Friday Night with Jonathan Ross in the UK. He’s also performed on radio; his most recent project being Strings, a brand new comedy sitcom pilot for BBC Radio 2, which he both wrote and starred in. His acclaimed 9-minute beat poem, Storm, is being animated for release in October. Tim is currently writing the music and lyrics for the musical Matilda with the Royal Shakespeare Company. This adaptation of the Roald Dahl classic opens in Stratford-upon-Avon in November 2010. Tim, his wife and two young children, now live in London.

Filmography

• 2027Zac Power — Nigel Spade (voice)
• 2026The Cat in the Hat — Songs
• Sam Pang Tonight — Guest
• 2024Hold Me: A Hellblazer Story — Original Music Composer
• 2023Scarygirl — Chihoohoo (voice)
• The Artful Dodger — Darius Cracksworth
• 2022Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical — Musical, Songs, Lyricist
• The Horne Section TV Show — Tim Minchin
• 2022Tim Minchin: Back — Himself, Writer
• 2021Back to the Outback — Pretty Boy (voice), Songs
• 2021Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway — Busker K. Bushy, Esq (voice)
• 2020Tim Minchin: Apart Together Live At Trackdown Studios — Vocals/Piano/Rhodes/Guitar, Producer
• Upright — Lachlan 'Lucky' Flynn, Original Music Composer, Executive Producer, Writer, Director, Creator
• 2018Robin Hood — Friar Tuck
• Squinters — Paul
• No Activity — Jacob
• The Secret River — Smasher
• 2012Jesus Christ Superstar - Live Arena Tour — Judas Iscariot
• 2011Storm — Self, Writer
• 2011Tim Minchin and the Heritage Orchestra — Himself, Writer
• 2011Tim Minchin: BBC Comedy Prom 2011 — Tim Minchin
• 2010The Lost Thing — Narrator (voice)
• 2010Tim Minchin, Live: Ready For This? — Himself, Writer
• 2009Tim Minchin: Ready for This? — Himself, Writer
• 2009Two Fists, One Heart — Tom
• 2008Tim Minchin: So F**king Rock Live — Self, Writer
• Californication — Atticus Fetch, Jesus
• 2007Tim Minchin: So Live — himself, Producer, Writer
• Larrikins — Andrew (voice), Director
• Pickpockets — Jasper LeClaire

Appearances as themselves (25)

• Creative Types with Virginia Trioli — Self
• Gary Barlow's Wine Tour — Self
• Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont Spelling Bee — Self
• Frankly — Self
• 2022Science Friction — Self
• Russell Howard Stands Up to the World — Self
• The Cheap Seats — Self
• The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer — Self - Guest
• The Russell Howard Hour — Self
• Anh's Brush with Fame — Himself
• 2016Matilda & Me — Himself
• 2016Shakespeare Live! From the RSC — Self
• Have You Been Paying Attention? — Self - Guest Quizmaster
• The Last Leg — Self
• 2013The Unbelievers — Self
• 2012The Genius of Roald Dahl — Himself
• 2011Tim Minchin: Vs The Sydney Symphony Orchestra — Himself
• Conan — Self
• Let's Dance for Sport Relief — Self - Judge
• The Green Room with Paul Provenza — Self
• Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation — Self - Contestant
• 2008Rock n' Roll Nerd — Himself
• 8 Out of 10 Cats — Self
• QI — Self
• Never Mind the Buzzcocks — Self, Self - Host