Twinkle Twinkle Tim, Shining Star

The lovely Tim Pocock (Dance Academy, Home and Away and Wolverine) was in Tasmania this last weekend for a series of talks and workshops for upcoming actors. I chatted to Tim about his career and his first trip to Tassie. Tim doesn’t like to be called a teacher, he prefers to say he is ‘sharing knowledge’ in the workshops and it’s clear to see Tim is very generous with his time and tips to upcoming actors.

Tim is a firm believer in being proactive in pursuing a career as an actor. He told me how if he is enthusiastic for a role and sent his resume on and if he didn’t get a reply he would try again. He believes in in persistence but says it must be handled in a respectful manner. If the answer is no then he would leave it at that but if there is no answer it means the door has not closed. Although Tim didn’t get the role he was working for, the producers remembered him and when something else came up he was offered that role so his persistence paid off.

For the weekend workshops Tim planned to revisit some of the scenes he himself has acted as he enjoys seeing the different ways other actors approach the same scene.

Tim has starred in Dance Academy, Home and Away and worked alongside Hugh Jackman in Wolverine, which was filmed partly in Australia and Canada.

You may be surprised to know that Tim is what in the industry is known as a double threat in that he can sing as well as act and that he has worked predominately at the Sydney Opera House.
In fact Tim originally started in the industry at 10 years of age as an opera Singer!

Tim was discovered by the situation, as it was then, of a youth choir going into schools to recruit new stars. One day school happened to be visited and the children were asked to sing the Australian Anthem. Ironically, Tim couldn’t do this as he didn’t know the anthem having been born in South Africa. Instead Tim sang’ Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star’ an appropriate song for the young star in the making.

Although that career as an opera singer is something Tim has ticked off as having accomplished he does say his mum appreciated very much the free opera tickets! And, being a wise young man sees it as an extra skill up his sleeve. In fact Tim sees his future clearly in film work but not restricted to acting he would like to follow in the footsteps of Clint Eastwood or George Clooney and be involved behind the scenes too.

It seems a bright future indeed for this shining star.