Zbych Trofimiuk

Zbych Trofimiuk (born 7 April 1979)[1] is an Australian teacher, academic,[2] and actor. He is known for his award-winning performance as Mike Masters in Sky Trackers,[3][4] and as the lead character Paul Reynolds in the children's science fiction series Spellbinder.[5]

Zbych Trofimiuk
Born (1979-04-07) 7 April 1979
Prague, Czech Republic[1]

Personal life

Trofimiuk is the son of the Prague-born Melbourne sculptor Zoja Trofimiuk.

He graduated in 2004 from Victoria University with a B.A. in Performance Studies.[1]

Career

Television

Trofimiuk is known for his work as a child actor in Australian television productions.

In 1990, he appeared in ABC's Choices, a short series of mini-dramas about peer pressure and the choices individual children have to make.[6]

In 1994, he starred in the educational drama series Sky Trackers,[7] playing one of the main roles, Mike Masters,[8] for which he won the Australian Film Institute's Young Actor Award.[4] He also appeared in an episode of Network 10's short-lived continuation of the popular Australian soap opera, A Country Practise.[9][10]

In 1995, Trofimiuk starred as the protagonist of the educational science fiction drama series Spellbinder,[11] Paul Reynolds.[5] And he also appeared in an episode of the second series of Snowy River - The McGregor Saga.[12]

Theatre

In 2005, Trofimiuk performed in the play "Bunny", written and directed by Benjamin Cittadini, at the La Mama Theatre in Melbourne, Australia.[13]

In 2007, he co-directed La Mama's production "Elmo" with its playwright Cittadini.[14] The play was a follow-up to "Bunny," and the second play in the author's "Trilogy of Love Stories."

Film

Trofimiuk played the role of Kane in the 2006 independent film Clean.[15]

Teaching and research

Since 2006, Trofimiuk has taught English as a foreign language, as a teacher in Australia's English Language Intensive Courses for Overseas Students (ELICOS) scheme; and he is a researcher at Melbourne's Monash University, in the Digital Education Research Group.[2][16]

Awards

Filmography

References
  1. Trofimiuk, Zbych. "Zbych Trofimiuk Presentation & Biography". Artmajeur. Archived from the original on 7 February 2021. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  2. Trofimiuk, Zbych. "Zbych Trofimiuk". | Digital Education Research @ Monash. Archived from the original on 4 February 2021. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  3. "Sky Trackers". Chip Taylor Communications, LLC. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  4. "Past Winners 1990-1999". Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). Archived from the original on 15 May 2012.
  5. "Spellbinder". Australian Television Information Archive. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  6. "Choices (1990) - The Screen Guide - Screen Australia". Screen Australia. Archived from the original on 27 April 2020. Retrieved 7 February 2021. (Please note: at time of writing, the cast info on this webpage does not display in Mozilla Firefox, but it does display in Internet Explorer).
  7. "Sky Trackers". The Australian Children's Television Foundation. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  8. Zuk, T. "Sky Trackers". Australian Television Information Archive. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  9. Zuk, T. "A Country Practice: episode guide: 1994". Australian Television Information Archive. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  10. Zuk, T. "A Country Practice". Australian Television Information Archive. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  11. Zuk, T. "Spellbinder - Series 1". Australian Children's Television Foundation. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  12. Zuk, T. "Snowy River: The McGregor Saga: episode guide". Australian Television Information Archive. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  13. "Records Description List: Reference Number 2012.0285". University of Melbourne Archives. 20 October 2014.
  14. "Elmo". The Australian Live Performance Database. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  15. "Clean (2006)". Blue Lotus Productions. Archived from the original on 16 March 2012.
  16. "About | Digital Education Research @ Monash". Retrieved 4 February 2021.


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