Tim Frost

Tim Frost was born on the 17th August 1981 in Paddington, London. He trained from the age of 4 at the Chrystel Arts Theatre School.in Edgware until 16. Tim's professional acting career started aged 12, appearing in The Mona Lisa Mystery (Sacha) at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park, London where he was invited back for three subsequent years in Kids of Sherwood (Alan A. Dale), The Jungle Book (Rama) and The Last Fattybottypuss In The World (Buzzard).

Career

At 16, Tim had his first move into the recorded media with voice-over work playing Amanda Burton's son, Scott, in the ITV drama Forgotten. After a brief stint in Holby Cityas Tony Gillibrand, Tim went to the Birmingham School of Speech and Drama (now the Birmingham School of Acting) where he completed a degree in Acting receiving a 2:1. Upon leaving Birmingham Tim did the expected stint of TIE (theatre in education) with Fast Forward theatre company working with the renowned Andrew Alti.

Christmas of that year Tim did his first pantomime, [...] Whittington, playing Dame Sarah in Kensington, London.

In 2004 Tim did his first radio work, recording two children's plays Aru and the Gaic Taino (Gaic Taino) and Hoppity goes Travelling (Hoppity). These were recorded at the Riverside Studios, Hammersmith.

Next up was a National tour of Macbeth (Donalbain, Fleance, Hecate and Doctor) and The Tempest (Antonio) spending 8 months playing at venues all across the UK.

Tim next recorded an infomercial for JML playing Mario the Waiter in a faux sit-com.

Then came a couple of short tours The Jungle Book (Shere Khan) and Club Class (Jazz).

In February 2006 Tim appeared in his first run of the Guinness Record holding News Revue at the Canal Cafe theatre. This was to be the beginning of a Long term relationship with the show. Tim has currently been in three runs, been the technical manager for two and has been one of the writers since his first run.

Whilst working at the Canal, Tim co-founded the resident improvisation company, The Institute.

Also in this year Tim appeared on MTV in an AIDS awareness campaign for the Terence Higgins Trust as well as his first feature film, Death Defying Acts with Guy Pearce, Timothy Spall and Catherine Zeta Jones.

The year was finished with Tim getting some more writing under his belt by coming up with four new pieces for December Monologues, directed by Emma Ribaldi Taylor.

2007 saw Tim going off to LA to do a course in acting for the camera with renowned coach, Bernard Hiller. Also in this year he appeared in The Witches (Mr Stringer), The Knight Mayor (Sir Nigel) and The Snow Queen (Kai).

2008 began with Tim playing the titular Macbeth in a new fusion of original text and physical theatre. Then after doing the short film Diphacinone (Henry) Tim worked on the new piece Plague! The MusicAL (Jerry Muldoon). Plague played at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and was an official Fringe Sell Out Show.

The year finished with Tim doing another new musical, They Shoot Horses, Don't They (James Bates).

2009 started with another musical, Hello Again (College Boy) before moving back to the camera. First for a TV pilot MPD (Larry Kin), then another short film, Mama's Purse (George) then finally Moon Investigates and Family Business (Samson).

This year also saw the start of Tim's cabaret and burlesque career. Tim made his first burlesque appearance dancing alongside Major Suttle-Tease and Amber Topaz at the Volupte Club, under the guise of Boyonce. He then went on to fill the guest spot in The Bears' show Who Ate All The Pies. Whilst doing the show, Tim met David Somerset-Barnes and Colin Francolino-Scott and the three of them set up the troupe, The Cubs which can be seen appearing at The Night Of L'Amour, the third Friday of every month at Madame Jojo's in Soho.

The rest of the year saw Tim appearing on stage in Food Kill Chain (Alex Rowe), Super Situation (Mr Fabulous), Dragged, Kicked and Screaming (Lover) and finally, Crazy For You (Dance Ensemble) at the Palladium in London's West End. Camera wise he was in an advert for the DVLA and presented a maths learning film.