Tilda Cobham-Hervey (born 4 September 1994) is an Australian actress. She made her film debut in 52 Tuesdays, a critically-acclaimed independent film directed by Sophie Hyde, and has also appeared on stage. She appeared in the 2018 film Hotel Mumbai, and starred as feminist icon Helen Reddy in the 2019 biopic I Am Woman. In 2023 she starred in the Amazon Prime TV series The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart.
The family travelled a lot, sometimes "living backstage in theatres". Starting from the age of nine, Tilda trained and performed in the Adelaide-based youth circus performance troupe Cirkidz for seven years, and was involved in five major productions.[5] Her specialities were hula hoop, trapeze, and acrobatic pitching, but the emphasis was theatrical, and the focus was on storytelling.[6][7]
Cobham-Hervey performed with Force Majeure in The Age I’m In, a show which was part of the 2008 Sydney and Adelaide Festivals, toured to 17 regional cities in Australia, and also toured to Ireland, Canada, and Korea.[9][10]
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. The troupe won the Adelaide Fringe'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.[11][12]
Career
After tagging along to an open audition with friends,[5] Cobham-Hervey won the lead role of Billie in Closer Productions' feature film 52 Tuesdays, which was filmed on one day each week between August 2011 and August 2012. After 52 Tuesdays was released at the Sundance Film Festival, Cobham-Hervey was signed by Creative Artists Agency (CAA), a major talent agency in the United States,[6] and by United Management in Australia.[13]
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 Adelaide Festival club, Barrio,[11] and in 2014, starred in the "Find Wonderful" television commercial[14] for the re-launch of the Myer brand, filmed in New Zealand over three days.[15]
Cobham-Hervey played the role of Kitty in the six-part TV series Fucking Adelaide, which premiered at the Adelaide Film Festival in October 2017[17] and screened on ABC national television as well as iview from 2018[18] (still available as of April 2019[update][19]).
Cobham-Hervey's directorial debut, a short film commissioned by the ABC and Screen Australia as part of the ABC ME 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 68th Berlin International Film Festival's Generation KPlus Section in February 2018.[20][21] It is available on ABC iview until June 2019.[22]
She played the role of Nanny Sally in the major film Hotel Mumbai, released in 2019.[23]
In December 2017, she was cast as Australian singer Helen Reddy in Australian film-maker Unjoo Moon's bio-pic about the singer Helen Reddy, I Am Woman.[24] Filmed in Australia, Los Angeles and New York City in late 2018,[25] the film premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in 2019. Her performance was lauded by The Hollywood Reporter, describing it as a "breakout performance".[26]
In 2021, Cobham-Hervey devised an interactive theatre piece entitled Two Strangers Walk into a Bar which was premiered in the Adelaide Fringe and had a later season at MOD., a South Australian "futuristic museum of discovery".[29][30][31]
As of December 2021[update] Cobham-Hervey had relocated back to Australia, after around four years in Los Angeles, to film The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart.[32] Cobham-Hervey was announced as part of the cast for Netflix series Apple Cider Vinegar.[33]
In March 2017, Cobham-Hervey's relationship with British actor Dev Patel became public. They had met nine months earlier on the set of Hotel Mumbai.[36][32] In April 2022 they moved to Adelaide.[37] The couple posed for photographs together for the first time on the red carpet at the Sydney premiere of Patel's debut feature as a director, Monkey Man, on 2 April 2024.[38]
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