Toby Wallace

Toby Wallace (born 6 June 1995) is a British-born Australian actor, known for his role in Babyteeth (2019), for which he won the Marcello Mastroianni Award at the 2019 Venice Film Festival and the AACTA for Best Actor in a Leading Role in 2020. Wallace was born in the United Kingdom on 6 June 1995, living there until he was aged eight. After the family moved to Australia, he went to Jells Park Primary School in the Melbourne suburb of Wheelers Hill until Year 6, before transferring to Caulfield Grammar School, where he trained in drama and theatre. Wallace's first appearance in a feature film, aged 13, was in Lucky Country, a 2009 film by Australian filmmaker Kriv Stenders. It was for this role that he was nominated for an Australian Film Institute Award for Best Young Actor.