Brett Swain

Brett Swain is an Australian actor and comedian.

Early life Swain started his career in entertainment at Dracula's Cabaret in the mid 1980’s performing sketches, singing and dancing, as well as playing guitar and drums.

Career

Television From 1994 to 1995, Swain had a regular role, playing Mal Hennessey in critically-acclaimed and award-winning legal drama series Janus (known as Criminal Justice internationally). He also had a regular role as Griff in the first three seasons of SeaChange, from 1998 to 2000.

Swain landed the role of Kim Timmins on the Australian soap opera Neighbours, making his first appearance on 31 October 2005. The character was the Timmins family patriarch and was introduced after the arrival of his wife and four of their children the previous year. Nell Feeney and Damien Bodie, played his on-screen wife Janelle and son Dylan, respectively. as the title character's father, Don McPhail, and in 2008, a role in the first original installment of Nine Network's true crime series Underbelly, as Tibor Cassadae.

From 2011 to 2012, Swain played the recurring role of Prison Officer Griffiths, opposite David Wenham in drama miniseries Killing Time.

Film Swain's film credits include Mick Molloy’s comedy films Crackerjack (2002), in which he played the marijuana growing greenkeeper and Bad Eggs (2003), playing the role of Pendlebury.

Swain played Sam, the main character Shaun's father in 2001 coming-of-age drama Mallboy and played the role of Kenny Yallop in the 2003 film Take Away. He also had a small role as a police officer in 2007 fantasy suspense film Ghost Rider, starring Nicolas Cage.

In 2014, Swain appeared in thriller feature Cut Snake, opposite Sullivan Stapleton.

Stage On stage, Swain has played Riff Raff in the Melbourne production of The Rocky Horror Show at the Regent Theatre, and cricketer Terry Jenner in Eddie Perfect’s show Shane Warne: The Musical.

Film Year Title Role Type Ref. 1987 Australian Dream Cop 2 Feature film 1996 The Big Maybe Joe Darabont Short film 1999 Black Box Feature film Naked Intent Short film 2001 Mallboy Sam Feature film Crackerjack Greenkeeper Feature film Creative Violence Warne Short film 2004 Swimming to the Boy Dad Short film 2005 You and Your Stupid Mate The Supervisor Feature film 2006 All's Swell That Ends Swell Gerry Short film Five Moments of Infidelity Bob / Husband Anthology film (segment 5) 2007 Ghost Rider Police Officer Feature film Work in Progress Father Short film A Different Cut Don Short film 2008 Tea and Physics Kevin Kunning Short film Skinned Father Short film 2009 Fences Dean Short film 2010 Pinion Father Short film Unearthed Mr Morris Short film The Meeting Mr Weyland Short film Meat Your Maker Sam Short film 2011 Quinkin Vox Short film Husband, Father, Son Short film 2012 Human Fog Billy Dunlop Short film Mother's Day Daniel Short film Snapshot Short film 2013 Adoption Grey's Anatomy Short film 2014 Cut Snake Boss Feature film Everybody Hurts Doctor Completed Day Forty Five Bryan Morewell In production

Stage Year Title Role Type Ref. 1999 Stage Write '99: Head on Collision Tom West Melbourne Gasworks 2004 The Rocky Horror Show Riff Raff Regent Theatre, Melbourne (Neighbours concert celebration)