Roy Billing: “Roly”

Roy’s extensive 30-year career has spanned film, television and theatre in Australia and New Zealand. He is also an established voice artist. His NZ credits are substantial and he has won NZ acting awards for film and television and been nominated for Australian awards. He has been based in Australia for the past twenty years. Apart from Charlie & Boots, recently Roy has also completed shooting the feature films Unfinished Sky and $9.99.  Other films include Strange Bedfellows, The Bet, Razzle Dazzle, Aquamarine, Thunderstruck, Rabbit Proof Fence, Black and White, and The Dish, for which he received a Film Critic’s Circle nomination, and Siam Sunset for which he was nominated for both an AFI Award and a Film Critics Circle Award.

 Television credits include recurring roles in Always Greener, Don’t Blame Me, Blue Heelers, Bad Cop Bad Cop, Hampton Court, Over the Hill and All Saints as well as one-off guest roles in many other TV series like Wildside, Secret Life of Us, Water Rats and Murder Call. Most recently, Roy has worked on the tele-movies Hell has Harbour Views and Small Claims 2 as well as Two Twisted, Packed to the Rafters and Out of The Blue. He recently completed the ABC tele-movie Valentine’s Day directed by long time collaborator Peter Duncan. Most recently Roy was cast in the comedy series Chandon Season 2 and played the role of Robert Trimbole in the highly successful series Underbelly 2.