Toby Wallace

Background

Toby Wallace was born in the U.K. He followed his family moving to Australia at eight years old and attended Jells Park Primary School in Melbourne. After Level 6, he transferred to Caulfield Grammar School and started his training in drama and theater. Wallace had his first appearance in a feature film at 13 years old in Kriv Stenders’s 2009 “Lucky Country.” He was recognized by the Australian Film Institute (AFI) and was nominated as the Best Young Actor that year.

Wallace rose to fame after appearing in the Australian long-running T.V. series, “Neighbours,” i, where he played a month-long guest role as Corey O’Donaghue. In 2013, he starred in Brendan Maher’s adventure fantasy film, “Return to Nim’s Island,” alongside Bindi Irwin, Matthew Lillard, and John Waters. In 2014, he appeared as young Michael Hutchence in the rock band INXS’s mini-series, titled “INXS: Never Tear Us Apart.” He also played the leading role of Erik Jensen in “Acute Misfortune,” an Australian feature film in 2018, and in the T.V. mini-series “Romper Stomper” as Kane.

The actor’s most notable role so far is the drug-addict Moses in Shannon Murphy’s 2019 coming-of-age drama, “Babyteeth.” It tells the story of Milla, played by Eliza Scanlen, a 16-year- old girl from a rich family who fell in love with Moses just before she discovered that she had cancer. The role earned Wallace the Marcello Mastroianni Award at the Venice Film Festival. In 2020, “Babyteeth” won nine AACTA awards, and Wallace was named Best Actor in a Leading Role. In 2022, he portrayed the guitarist of the legendary British punk rock band, Sex Pistols, in Danny Boyle’s biographical T.V. series, “Pistol.”