Tilda Cobham-Hervey
- Actress
- Producer
- Director
Tilda Cobham-Hervey (born September 4, 1994) is an Australian actress from Adelaide, South Australia, with a background in circus and physical theatre. Starting from the age of nine, Cobham-Hervey trained and performed in the Adelaide-based youth circus performance troupe Cirkidz for seven years, and was involved in five major productions. When Tilda performed in the circus, her specialties were hula hoop, trapeze and acrobatic pitching, but the emphasis was theatrical, and the focus was on storytelling.
She attended Marryatville High School. In 2009, she became a founding member of an Adelaide circus group called Gravity and Other Myths where she co-devised a show called Freefall, which 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. Cobham-Hervey also performed with Force Majeure in The Age I'm In, a show which was part of the 2008 Sydney and Adelaide festivals, and toured to 17 regional cities in Australia, and toured in Ireland, Canada and Korea.
In 2014 Cobham-Hervey made her film debut at the age of 19 in 52 Tuesdays (2013) a critically acclaimed independent film directed by Sophie Hyde. Film was released at the Sundance Film Festival, Cobham-Hervey was signed by Creative Artists Agency (CAA), a major talent agency in the United States, and by United Management in Australia.
In 2012, Cobham-Hervey played the supporting role in Projector Films' feature One Eyed Girl (2013). In 2013 she created and performed the front-of-house entertainment at the Adelaide Festival club, Barrio, and in 2014, starred in the "Find Wonderful" television commercial for the re-launch of the Myer brand, filmed in New Zealand over three days.
In 2016, Cobham-Hervey appeared in her first play as Rosie Price in Things I Know To be True, which was written by Andrew Bovell for a co-production between State Theatre Company of South Australia and UK's Frantic Assembly.
Cobham-Hervey played the role of Kitty in the six-part TV series Fucking Adelaide (2017), which premiered at the Adelaide Film Festival in October 2017 and screened on ABC national television as well as view from 2018.
Tilda'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 (2017) was awarded the prestigious Crystal Bear for Best Short Film by the Youth Jury of the 68th Berlin International Film Festival's Generation KPlus Section in February 2018.
She appeared in the 2018 film Hotel Mumbai (2018), and starred as feminist icon Helen Reddy in the 2019 biopic I Am Woman (2019).
In 2021, she 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".
She attended Marryatville High School. In 2009, she became a founding member of an Adelaide circus group called Gravity and Other Myths where she co-devised a show called Freefall, which 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. Cobham-Hervey also performed with Force Majeure in The Age I'm In, a show which was part of the 2008 Sydney and Adelaide festivals, and toured to 17 regional cities in Australia, and toured in Ireland, Canada and Korea.
In 2014 Cobham-Hervey made her film debut at the age of 19 in 52 Tuesdays (2013) a critically acclaimed independent film directed by Sophie Hyde. Film was released at the Sundance Film Festival, Cobham-Hervey was signed by Creative Artists Agency (CAA), a major talent agency in the United States, and by United Management in Australia.
In 2012, Cobham-Hervey played the supporting role in Projector Films' feature One Eyed Girl (2013). In 2013 she created and performed the front-of-house entertainment at the Adelaide Festival club, Barrio, and in 2014, starred in the "Find Wonderful" television commercial for the re-launch of the Myer brand, filmed in New Zealand over three days.
In 2016, Cobham-Hervey appeared in her first play as Rosie Price in Things I Know To be True, which was written by Andrew Bovell for a co-production between State Theatre Company of South Australia and UK's Frantic Assembly.
Cobham-Hervey played the role of Kitty in the six-part TV series Fucking Adelaide (2017), which premiered at the Adelaide Film Festival in October 2017 and screened on ABC national television as well as view from 2018.
Tilda'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 (2017) was awarded the prestigious Crystal Bear for Best Short Film by the Youth Jury of the 68th Berlin International Film Festival's Generation KPlus Section in February 2018.
She appeared in the 2018 film Hotel Mumbai (2018), and starred as feminist icon Helen Reddy in the 2019 biopic I Am Woman (2019).
In 2021, she 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".
