Brett Swain (actor)

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.^[1]

From 1994 to 1995, Swain had a regular role, playing Mal Hennessey in critcally-acclaimed and award-winning legal drama series Janus (known as Criminal Justice internationally).^[2][3] He also had a regular role as Griff in the first three seasons of SeaChange, from 1998 to 2000.^[4]

Swain landed the role of Kim Timmins on the Australian soap opera Neighbours, making his first appearance on 31 October 2005.^[5] The character was the Timmins family patriarch and was introduced after the arrival of his wife and four of their children the previous year.^[6] Nell Feeney and Damien Bodie, played his on-screen wife Janelle and son Dylan, respectively.^[5] Swain had previously made guest appearances in the series, including as John Swan, the duck hunter who killed Kerry Bishop (Linda Hartley-Clark) in 1990,^[5] as builder Buzz Wade in 1991, and as a horse racing commentator in 1993.^{[citation needed]}

Other television credits include 2004 children's comedy series Fergus McPhail,^[7] as the title character's father, Don McPhail,^[8] and in 2008, a role in the first original installment of Nine Network's true crime series Underbelly, as Tibor Cassadae.^[9]

From 2011 to 2012, Swain played the recurring role of Prison Officer Griffiths, opposite David Wenham in drama miniseries Killing Time.^[10]

Swain's film credits include Mick Molloy’s comedy films Crackerjack (2002), in which he played the marijuana growing greenkeeper^[11] and Bad Eggs (2003), playing the role of Pendlebury.^[12]

Swain played Sam, the main character Shaun's father in 2001 coming-of-age drama Mallboy^[13] and played the role of Kenny Yallop in the 2003 film Take Away.^[14] He also had a small role as a police officer in 2007 fantasy suspense film Ghost Rider, starring Nicolas Cage.^{[citation needed]}

In 2014, Swain appeared in thriller feature Cut Snake, opposite Sullivan Stapleton.^[15]

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.^[9]

During his time playing Kim Timmins in Neighbours, Swain was the real life partner of former Neighbours actress Marcella Russo, who played Liljana Bishop.