About Tim

Tim Constantine is an Earthling who acts, writes, produces, directs, interviews, presents, and does the washing-up. He has one of those faces you’re sure you recognise from somewhere.

A lifelong lover of theatre and comedy, Tim has been acting professionally since childhood – at the age of 10 he took the role of Artful Owl in Captain Beaky and His Band: a production that people are not still talking about to this very day.

He has trained with NIDA, Beverley Hills Playhouse, Howard Fine Acting Studio, Greg Apps, and Crufts.

Tim’s first experience of Shakespeare is being taken to the theatre as a whining schoolboy to see one of the Henry Sixes. He fell asleep during the “borey-talky” bits, but woke up during the shouting and swordfighting. As time went on, he came to appreciate that the “borey-talky” bits were actually rather good; thanks in no small part to Kenneth Branagh’s Henry V and Much Ado films, and Richard Loncraine’s Richard III, starring a pre-Magneto-and-Gandalf Ian McKellen.

Favourite stage roles include Jerry in Pinter’s Betrayal; Freddie Filmore in It’s A Wonderful Life; David O. Selznick in Moonlight and Magnolias; Louis Ironson in Angels in America; a sprightly and mischievous Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest; Rosencrantz in Rosencrantz and Guldenstern Are Dead; Randall McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest; and Lord Alfred Douglas (‘Bosie’) in both The Judas Kiss and Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde.

Tim also originated the role of Captain Moonlite (bushranger, lay-preacher, ‘madman’, and queer icon) in the acclaimed Moonlite – a new Australian musical play by bestselling author Gabriel Bergmoser.

A veteran of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Tim also co-wrote, co-produced, and performed in sold-out comedy shows, which led to writing for a comedy pilot for Channel 9, produced by Jason Stephens (The Late Show, Comedy Inc., Newstopia).

Recent screen projects include the short films The Problem Solver, 50 Years Later, Grace, and Recollector. He also appeared in the comedy series Bernie Brown and Swiping Right.

People who remember free-to-air telly might have caught him in the usual line-up of Australian TV shows, including Underbelly, City Homicide and Neighbours (RIP. Again.).