Zbych Trofimiuk

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Zbych Trofimiuk
Born (1979-04-07) 7 April 1979 (age 45) [1]
Prague, Czechoslovakia [2]

Zbych Trofimiuk (born 7 April 1979) [1] is a Czech-Australian language teacher, academic, [3] and actor. He is known for his award-winning performance as Mike Masters in the children's television adventure series Sky Trackers , [4] [5] and as the lead character Paul Reynolds in the children's science fiction series Spellbinder . [6]

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Personal life

Born in Prague in the Czech Republic [2] in 1979, [1] to Prague-born sculptor Zoja Trofimiuk and Jurek Trofimiuk, [7] the languages of his early years were Czech, Polish, and German. At four years old, he emigrated with his parents to Melbourne Australia, where he began to learn English. [2]

In 2004, he graduated from Melbourne's 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. [8]

In 1994, he appeared in an episode of Network 10's short-lived continuation of the popular Australian soap opera, A Country Practice . [9] [10]

In 1995, Trofimiuk starred in leading roles in two drama series for children: first in the educational adventure series Sky Trackers , [11] playing Mike Masters, [12] for which he won the Australian Film Institute's Young Actor Award; [5] and second as the protagonist, Paul Reynolds, [6] in the science fiction series Spellbinder . [13] Both Sky Trackers and Spellbinder won the Australian Film Institute's Award for Best Children's Television Drama (in 1994 and 1996 respectively). [5] Also in 1995, Trofimiuk guested in an episode of the second series of Snowy River - The McGregor Saga. [14]

Theatre

In 2005, Trofimiuk performed in the play "Bunny", written and directed by Benjamin Cittadini, at the La Mama Theatre in Melbourne, Australia. [15]

In 2007, he co-directed La Mama's production "Elmo" with its playwright Cittadini. [16] 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. [17]

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 an educational researcher at Melbourne's Monash University, in the Digital Education Research Group. [3] [18]

Awards

Filmography

Television

YearFilmRoleNotes
1990ChoicesTV series
1994 A Country Practice TV series, episode 14.14: "Tuesday's Child" [9]
1994 Sky Trackers Mike MastersTV series [19]
1995 Snowy River: The McGregor Saga TV series, episode 2.4: "Fathers and Sons" [14]
1995 Spellbinder Paul ReynoldsTV series

Film

YearFilmRoleNotes
2006CleanKaneIndependent feature film

Theatre

YearFilmRoleNotes
2005 Bunny La Mama Theatre
2007ElmoCo-directorFollow-up to Bunny and second play in the "Trilogy of Love Stories"

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Trofimiuk, Zbych. "Zbych Trofimiuk Presentation & Biography". Artmajeur . Archived from the original on 7 February 2021. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 Trofimiuk, Zbych (February 2015). "Chapter 3". ELICOS Online: Co-creating Flexible Learning Environments (Masters). Monash University. p. 48.
  3. 1 2 Trofimiuk, Zbych. "Zbych Trofimiuk". | Digital Education Research @ Monash. Archived from the original on 4 February 2021. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  4. ↑ "Sky Trackers". Chip Taylor Communications, LLC. Archived from the original on 15 August 2020. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
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  6. 1 2 Zuk, T. "Spellbinder". Australian Television Information Archive. Archived from the original on 29 June 2017. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  7. ↑ Trofimiuk, Zbych (February 2015). "Acknowledgements". ELICOS Online: Co-creating Flexible Learning Environments (Masters). Monash University.
  8. ↑ "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).{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  9. 1 2 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. ↑ "Sky Trackers". The Australian Children's Television Foundation. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  12. ↑ Zuk, T. "Sky Trackers". Australian Television Information Archive. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  13. ↑ "Spellbinder - Series 1". Australian Children's Television Foundation. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  14. 1 2 Zuk, T. "Snowy River: The McGregor Saga: episode guide". Australian Television Information Archive. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  15. ↑ "Records Description List: Reference Number 2012.0285". University of Melbourne Archives. 20 October 2014.
  16. ↑ "Elmo". The Australian Live Performance Database. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  17. ↑ "Clean (2006)". Blue Lotus Productions. Archived from the original on 16 March 2012.
  18. ↑ "About | Digital Education Research @ Monash" . Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  19. ↑ "Sky Trackers (1994) - The Screen Guide - Screen Australia". www.screenaustralia.gov.au. Retrieved 16 February 2021.


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