Toby Truslove

Toby Truslove is an Australian film, theatre and television actor.

Career[edit]

In 2001, Truslove appeared on the television drama series Crash Palace as Bryan Rossiter.^[1] He has since made guest appearances on Australian TV series including All Saints, McLeod's Daughters, The Strip, Thank God You're Here and The Librarians.^[2]

In 2011 he starred in two ABC TV comedy series Laid and Outland. He also appears in the comedy feature Scumbus. In 2012 he was the lead in The Strange Calls. Onstage he has played Sam in the Belvoir St. Theatre's 2012 production of Strange Interlude, as well as the pompous Victor Prynne in Noël Coward's play Private Lives – another Belvoir production.

Truslove was one of the team captains on Channel 7's Slide Show and went on to star in the comedy TV series Utopia and U.S. series La Brea.

Truslove co-hosted the 2014 New Year's Eve broadcast for the ABC with Julia Zemiro.^[3]

Truslove also works as a host and MC in the corporate arena. He has been the co-host of Splendour In The Grass music festival and has hosted nationwide events for Canadian Tourism Commission attests. ^[4]

Filmography[edit]

Film[edit]

• The Pact (2003) as Attendant
• Soft Cop (2008, short film) as Police Officer
• I Can't Believe It's Not Better (2009, TV movie) as Bob Hilbert
• Smoking Will Kill You (2010, short film) as Bill
• I Love You Too (2011) as Racquetball Guy #1
• The Strange Calls (2012, short film) as Officer Tony Banks
• How to Make a Monster (2011, short film) as Ross
• Clicked (2011, short film) as Jake
• Scumbus (2012) as Jessie Redmond
• The 8 Inch Pinch (2013) as Constable Benchley
• Martha Arthur (2013, short film) as Eric Colby
• Josh (2014, short film) as Josh Hemsworth
• Comedy Showroom: Bleak (2016, TV movie) as Matt
• Koko: A Red Dog Story (2019) as Kriv Stenders
• Pentimento (2019, short film) as Noah
• Teenage Rangers (2020, short film) as Davis
• Don't Come In..Yet! (2021, short film)
• Ashes (2023, short film) as Greta Garbo

Television[edit]

• Crash Palace (2001) as Bryan Rossiter
• All Saints (2003) as Chris Wiley (1 episode)
• McLeod's Daughters (2004) as Gary (1 episode)
• The Strip (2008) as Dayne Gibson (1 episode)
• The Librarians (2010) as Dave (1 episode)
• This Is Your Laugh (2008-09) as Improvisational actor
• Thank God You're Here (2009) as Self (2 episodes)
• The Breast Darn Show in Town (2009, TV special) as Guest
• Sleuth 101 (2010) as Nigel Hay (season 1, episode 6: "Late and Live starring Julia Morris")
• Some Say Love (2011) as various characters (1 episides)
• The Strange Calls (2012, miniseries) as Officer Tony Banks (6 episodes)
• Outland (2012, miniseries) as Max (6 episodes)
• Tangle (2012) as Josh Gray (1 episode)
• Laid (2011-12) as Zach (12 episodes)
• Lowdown (2012) as Brent Morrison (1 episode)
• The Unbelievable Truth (2012) as Guest
• Randling (2012) as Panellist
• #7DaysLater (2013) as Prime Minister Toby Mann (1 episode)
• Tractor Monkeys (2013) as Team member (season 1, episode 3)
• Slide Show (2013-14) as Team Captain
• Offspring (2014) as Stephen (1 episode)
• Night Terrace (2014, podcast series) as Hostile Takeover Commander/Vraxnol (2 episodes)
• New Year's Eve broadcast for the ABC (2014) as Co-host (with Julia Zemiro)
• Utopia (2014-19) as Karsten Leith (seasons 1-4, 16 episodes)
• House Husbands (2015) as Joel (1 episode)
• Junior Eurovision Song Contest (2015, TV special) as Commentator
• Darren & Brose (2015) as Guest (episode 4)
• Molly (2016, miniseries) as Gary Morris (1 episode)
• The Big Music Quiz (2016) as Guest (episode 7)
• Get Krack!n (2017) as Hunter Jack (1 episode)
• Wrong Kind of Black (2018, miniseries) as Barry (4 episodes)
• True Story with Hamish & Andy (2018) as Boyfriend Andy (season 2, episode 9: "Jeremy's Nerd Candy Story")
• Bad Mothers (2019, miniseries) as Detective Holland (5 episodes)
• Metro Sexual (2019) as Nurse Fletcher (1 episode)
• Ms Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries (2019-21) as Samuel Birnside (12 episodes)
• La Brea (2021) as Senior Agent Adam Markman (8 episodes)
• North Shore (2023) as Justin Makepeace (5 episodes)

Audio series[edit]

• The Bazura Project's Radio Free Cinema (2021) as Guest
• Night Terrace (2023) as Vraxnall ("Moving House") & The Hostile Takeover Commander ('The Outsourcing")

Stage[edit]

• A Streetcar Named Desire (1994) (at The New Dolphin Theatre, WA)
• Troilus and Cressida (2000-01) as Troilus (at Athenaeum Theatre, The Playhouse, ACT & Sydney Opera House for Bell Shakespeare Company)
• Like There's No Tomorrow (2006-07) Old Fitzroy Theatre & Newtown Theatre)
• Eddie, Eddie's Id, Eddie's Ego and Every-eddie-else (2006) (at Newtown Theatre)
• Strangelove The Musical (2007) (at Fortyfivedownstairs)
• Beaconsfield: A Musical in A-Flat Minor (2008) The Butterfly Club, South Melbourne
• Beaconsfield: A Musical In No Particular Key (2009) Arthur's Bar @ Rosati, Melbourne
• 33 Variations (2009) as Mike (at Comedy Theatre, Melbourne)
• Strange Interlude (2012) as Sam (for Belvoir St. Theatre)
• Private Lives (2012) as Victor Prynne (for Belvoir St. Theatre)
• The Cherry Orchard (2013) as Trofimov (at Southbank Theatre for Melbourne Theatre Company)
• The Speechmaker (2014) as Ed (at Playhouse, Melbourne for Melbourne Theatre Company)
• Children of the Sun (2014) as Protasov (at Sydney Opera House for Sydney Theatre Company)
• The Beast (2016) as Rob (at Sydney Opera House, Comedy Theatre, Melbourne & Lyric Theatre, QPAC)
• Bliss (2018) as Harry Joy (at Malthouse Theatre & Belvoir St Theatre)
• Home, I'm Darling (2020) as Johnny (at Southbank Theatre for Melbourne Theatre Company)
• Summerfolk (2020) (for Belvoir St Theatre)
• The Boomkak Panto (2021) as John (for Belvoir St Theatre)
• Starfish the Redacted (2023) at La Mama for The New Rich Theatre Co)
• Wolf Lullaby
• Macbeth
• Romeo and Juliet

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Awards and nominations[edit]

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Toby Truslove at IMDb

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