Toby Truslove

{{Short description|Australian film, theatre and television actor}}

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{{Use Australian English|date=September 2016}}

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| birth_place = Perth, Australia

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| occupation = Actor

| years_active = 2001–present

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

Early life

Truslove grew up in Perth, Western Australia, and holidayed on Rottnest Island with his family every summer.{{cite web | url=https://artsreview.com.au/on-the-couch-with-toby-truslove/ | title=On the Couch with Toby Truslove | date=30 July 2016 }} His father, Mike, went to the seminary for three years with the idea of becoming a priest, before he met his wife, Georgia, while he was singing in a folk band. They got married and moved to London for a few years, before moving back to Perth, where Truslove was born. He grew up living next door to his paternal grandparents, Eileen and Gary.{{cite web | url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/theatre/toby-truslove-what-i-know-about-women-20180612-p4zl0f.html | title=Toby Truslove: What I know about women | date=16 June 2018 }}

Career

In 2001, Truslove appeared on the television drama series Crash Palace as Bryan Rossiter.{{cite web|url=http://www.australiantelevision.net/crashpalace/cast.html|title=Australian Television: Crash Palace: biographies|work=australiantelevision.net}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://au.tv.yahoo.com/thank-god-youre-here/interviews/article/-/article/5637165/q-a-with-toby-truslove/|title=TV and Australian TV Guide|work=yahoo.com}}{{Dead link|date=April 2025}}

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 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.{{cite web|url=http://au.tv.yahoo.com/news-and-gossip/article/-/25678696/fresh-hosts-for-abc-new-years-eve-show/|title=News and Gossip|work=yahoo.com}}{{Dead link|date=April 2025}}

In 2024, Truslove would return for the second series of Scrublands.{{Cite web |last=Knox |first=David |date=2024-06-05 |title=Filming underway on Scrublands: Silver {{!}} TV Tonight |url=https://tvtonight.com.au/2024/06/filming-underway-on-scrublands-silver.html |access-date=2024-09-18 |website=tvtonight.com.au |language=en-AU}}

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 the Canadian Tourism Commission.{{Cite web | url=https://lmcm.com.au/corporate/toby-truslove/ | title=Toby Truslove | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230308064915/https://lmcm.com.au/corporate/toby-truslove/ | archive-date=2023-03-08}}

Personal life

Truslove cites his mother as the inspiration for his career in acting. He does not consider himself to be religious, despite having participated in the Catholic Church as a child. {{cite web | url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/theatre/toby-truslove-what-i-know-about-women-20180612-p4zl0f.html | title=Toby Truslove: What I know about women | date=16 June 2018 }}

Truslove dated actress Tory Mussett for seven years. He went on to date comedian Celia Pacquola from 2008 to 2013. They broke up due to the strain of a long-distance relationship. He then dated actress Michala Banas, whom he had met many years earlier. After three years together, they eloped in Central Park on 29 April 2019, while on holiday in New York.{{cite web | url=https://www.nowtolove.com.au/celebrity/celebrity-news/michala-banas-husband-halifax-65092/ | title=EXCLUSIVE: Michala Banas spills on celebrating her wedding anniversary and expanding their family in lockdown | date=31 August 2020 }}

Truslove's father Mike died in 2014, within a year of being diagnosed with a brain tumour.

Filmography

=Film=

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! Year

! Title

! Role

! Type

2003The PactAttendantFeature film
2008Soft CopPolice OfficerShort film
2009I Can't Believe It's Not BetterBob HilbertTV movie
2010Smoking Will Kill YouBillShort film
2011I Love You TooRacquetball Guy #1Feature film
2012The Strange CallsOfficer Tony BanksShort film
2011How to Make a MonsterRossShort film
2011ClickedJakeShort film
2012ScumbusJessie RedmondFeature film
2013The 8 Inch PinchConstable Benchley
2013Martha ArthurEric ColbyShort film
2014JoshJosh HemsworthShort film
2016Comedy Showroom: BleakMattTV movie
2019Koko: A Red Dog StoryKriv StendersFeature film
2019PentimentoNoahShort film
2020Teenage RangersDavisShort film
2021Don't Come In..Yet!Short film
2023AshesGreta GarboShort film

=Television=

class="wikitable"

! Year

! Title

! Role

! Type

2001Crash PalaceBryan RossiterTV series
2003All SaintsChris WileyTV series, 1 episode
2004McLeod's DaughtersGaryTV series, 1 episode
2008The StripDayne GibsonTV series, 1 episode
2010The LibrariansDaveTV series, 1 episode
2010Sleuth 101Nigel HayTV series, season 1, episode 6: "Late and Live starring Julia Morris"
2012The Strange CallsOfficer Tony BanksMiniseries, 6 episodes
2012OutlandMaxMiniseries, 6 episodes
2012TangleJosh GrayTV series, 1 episode
2011–12LaidZachTV series, 12 episodes)
2012LowdownBrent MorrisonTV series, 1 episode
2013#7DaysLaterPrime Minister Toby MannTV series, 1 episode
2014OffspringStephenTV series, 1 episode
2014Night TerraceHostile Takeover Commander / VraxnolPodcast series, 2 episodes
2014–19UtopiaKarsten LeithTV series, seasons 1–4, 16 episodes
2015House HusbandsJoelTV series, 1 episode
2016MollyMorrisMiniseries, 1 episode
2017Get Krack!nHunter JackTV series, 1 episode
2018Wrong Kind of BlackBarryMiniseries, 4 episodes
2018True Story with Hamish & AndyBoyfriend AndyTV series, season 2, episode 9: "Jeremy's Nerd Candy Story"
2019Bad MothersDetective HollandMiniseries, 5 episodes
2019Metro SexualNurse FletcherTV series, 1 episode
2019–21Ms Fisher's Modern Murder MysteriesSamuel BirnsideTV series, 12 episodes
2021La BreaSenior Agent Adam MarkmanTV series, 8 episodes
rowspan="2" | 2023North ShoreJustin MakepeaceTV series, 5 episodes
Rock Island Mysteries

|Radio DJ

|TV series:3 episodes

2023–present

|Scrublands

|Doug Monkton

|TV series

=Television (as self)=

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! Year

! Title

! Role

! Type

2008–09This Is Your LaughImprovisational actorTV series
2009Thank God You're HereSelfTV series, 2 episodes
2009The Breast Darn Show in TownGuestTV special
2011Some Say LoveVarious charactersTV series, 1 episode
2012The Unbelievable TruthGuestTV series
2012RandlingPanellistTV series
2013Tractor MonkeysTeam memberTV series, season 1, episode 3
2013–14Slide ShowTeam CaptainTV series
2014New Year's Eve broadcast for the ABCCo-host (with Julia ZemiroTV special
2015Junior Eurovision Song ContestCommentatorTV special
2015Darren & BroseGuestTV series, episode 4
2016The Big Music QuizGuestTV series, episode 7

Audio series

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! Year

! Title

! Role

! Notes

2021The Bazura Project's Radio Free CinemaGuest
2023Night TerraceVraxnall / Hostile Takeover CommanderEpisodes: "Moving House" / "The Outsourcing"

Stage

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! Year

! Title

! Role

! Type

1994A Streetcar Named DesireNew Dolphin Theatre, Perth
2000–01Troilus and CressidaTroilusMelbourne Athenaeum, Playhouse, Canberra & Sydney Opera House for Bell Shakespeare
2006–07Like There's No TomorrowOld Fitzroy Theatre & Newtown Theatre
2006Eddie, Eddie's Id, Eddie's Ego and Every-eddie-elseNewtown Theatre
2007Strangelove The MusicalFortyfivedownstairs
2008Beaconsfield: A Musical in A-Flat MinorThe Butterfly Club, Melbourne
2009Beaconsfield: A Musical In No Particular KeyArthur's Bar at Rosati, Melbourne
200933 VariationsMikeComedy Theatre, Melbourne
2012Strange InterludeSamBelvoir St. Theatre
2012Private LivesVictor PrynneBelvoir St Theatre
2013The Cherry OrchardTrofimovSouthbank Theatre for MTC
2014The SpeechmakerEdPlayhouse, Melbourne for MTC
2014Children of the SunProtasovSydney Opera House for STC
2016The BeastRobSydney Opera House, Comedy Theatre, Melbourne & Lyric Theatre, QPAC
2018BlissHarry JoyMalthouse Theatre & Belvoir St Theatre
2020Home, I'm DarlingJohnnySouthbank Theatre for MTC
2020SummerfolkBelvoir St Theatre
2021The Boomkak PantoJohnBelvoir St Theatre
2023Starfish the RedactedLa Mama for The New Rich Theatre Co
Wolf Lullaby
Macbeth
Romeo and Juliet

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Awards and nominations

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Year

! Festival

! Award

! Nominated work

! Result

2012

| Monte-Carlo Television Festival

| Golden Nymph Award for Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series

| Laid

| {{nom}}

2012

| Equity Ensemble Awards

| Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series

| Laid

| {{nom}}

2013

| Equity Ensemble Awards

| Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series

| Outland

| {{nom}}

2013

| Equity Ensemble Awards

| Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series

| Laid

| {{nom}}

2020

| The Monthly Film Festival (TMFF)

| Best Actor

| Pentimento

| {{nom}}

2020

| Top Shorts Film Festival

| Best Actor

| Pentimento

| {{won}}

References

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