Tilda Cobham-Hervey (born 1994) is an Australian actress from

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, with a background in circus and

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. In 2014 Cobham-Hervey made her film debut at the age of 19 in ''

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'', a critically acclaimed independent film directed by Sophie Hyde, and has also appeared on stage. She appeared in the 2018 film ''

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'', and starred as feminist icon Helen Reddy in the 2019 biopic ''

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''.

Early life

Starting from the age of nine, Cobham-Hervey trained and performed in the

-based youth circus performance troupe Cirkidz for seven years, and was involved in five major productions. When Cobham-Hervey performed in the circus, her specialities were

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and acrobatic pitching, but the emphasis was theatrical, and the focus was on storytelling. Tilly also has a younger brother called Huey. She attended

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. In 2009, Cobham-Hervey became a founding member of an Adelaide circus group called Gravity and Other Myths where she co-devised a show called ''Freefall'', which won the

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's "Best Circus" award in 2010, the festival's Tour Ready award in 2011 and later that year won "Best Circus" in the Melbourne Fringe Festival, and she won the festival's award for "Best Emerging Circus/Physical Theatre Performer" in 2011. Cobham-Hervey also performed with Force Majeure in ''The Age I’m In'', a show which was part of the 2008 Sydney and Adelaide festivals, and toured to 17 regional cities in Australia, and toured in Ireland, Canada and Korea.

Career

Cobham-Hervey played the lead role of Billie in Closer Productions' feature film ''

'' from August 2011 to August 2012. After ''

'' was released at the Sundance Film Festival, Cobham-Hervey was signed by

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(CAA), a major talent agency in the United States, and by United Management in Australia. In 2012, Cobham-Hervey played the supporting role in Projector Films' feature ''One Eyed Girl''. In 2013 she created and performed the front-of-house entertainment at the

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club, Barrio, and in 2014, starred in the "Find Wonderful"

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for the re-launch of the

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brand, filmed in New Zealand over three days. In 2016, Cobham-Hervey appeared in her first play as Rosie Price in ''

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'', which was written by

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for a co-production between

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and UK's

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. Cobham-Hervey played the role of Kitty in the six-part TV series ''Fucking Adelaide'', which premiered at the

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in October 2017 and screened on

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national television as well as

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from 2018 (still available ). Cobham-Hervey's directorial debut, a short film commissioned by the ABC and

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as part of the

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Girls Initiative, premiered simultaneously at the 2017 Adelaide Film Festival and on ABC ME on 11 October 2017, the UN's International Day of the Girl. Made by Sophie Hyde's Closer Productions in Adelaide, ''A Field Guide to Being a 12-Year-Old Girl'' was awarded the Crystal Bear for Best Short Film by the Youth Jury of the

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's Generation KPlus Section in February 2018. It is available on ABC iview until June 2019. She played the role of Nanny Sally in the major film ''

'', released in 2019. In December 2017, she was cast as Australian singer Helen Reddy in Australian film-maker

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's bio-pic about the singer Helen Reddy, ''

''. Filmed in Australia, Los Angeles and New York City in late 2018, the film premiered at the

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in 2019. Her performance was lauded by ''

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'', describing it as a "breakout performance". Cobham-Hervey and

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co-wrote and -directed a short film, ''Roborovski'', about a

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, which premiered at

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in Sydney in January 2020. The film won three prizes at the

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(Antipodean Film Festival) at

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, France, in 2021: Australian Short Film Today; the Nicholas Baudin Prize; and the Audience Award. In 2021, Cobham-Hervey devised an interactive theatre piece entitled ''Two Strangers Walk into a Bar'' which was premiered in the

and had a later season at

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, a South Australian "futuristic museum of discovery". Cobham-Hervey had relocated back to Australia, after around four years in

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, to film ''The Lost Flowers Of Alice Hart''.

Filmography

Film

Television

Writing and directing

Theatre

Awards and nominations

Circus and physical theatre

Film and television

;Acting awards ;Directing awards ''Roborovski'' won three prizes at the

in 2021: Australian Short Film Today; the Nicholas Baudin Prize; and the Audience Award.

Stage (theatre)

Personal life

Cobham-Hervey's father is set and lighting designer and event director Geoff Cobham, and her mother is dance teacher and former dancer Roz Hervey. In March 2017, Cobham-Hervey's relationship with British actor

became public. They met nine months earlier on the set of ''

''.

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cobham-Hervey, Tilda Living people Actresses from Adelaide 21st-century Australian actresses Australian film actresses 1994 births