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Brett Swain (actor)

Brett Swain is an Australian actor and comedian.

Swain started his career in entertainment at Dracula's Cabaret in the mid 1980’s performing sketches, singing and dancing, as well as playing guitar and drums.

From 1994 to 1995, Swain had a regular role, playing Mal Hennessey in critcally-acclaimed and award-winning legal drama series Janus (known as Criminal Justice internationally). He also had a regular role as Griff in the first three seasons of SeaChange, from 1998 to 2000.

Swain landed the role of Kim Timmins on the Australian soap opera Neighbours, making his first appearance on 31 October 2005. The character was the Timmins family patriarch and was introduced after the arrival of his wife and four of their children the previous year. Nell Feeney and Damien Bodie, played his on-screen wife Janelle and son Dylan, respectively. Swain had previously made guest appearances in the series, including as John Swan, the duck hunter who killed Kerry Bishop (Linda Hartley-Clark) in 1990, as builder Buzz Wade in 1991, and as a horse racing commentator in 1993.[citation needed]

Other television credits include 2004 children's comedy series Fergus McPhail, as the title character's father, Don McPhail, and in 2008, a role in the first original installment of Nine Network's true crime series Underbelly, as Tibor Cassadae.

From 2011 to 2012, Swain played the recurring role of Prison Officer Griffiths, opposite David Wenham in drama miniseries Killing Time.

Swain's film credits include Mick Molloy’s comedy films Crackerjack (2002), in which he played the marijuana growing greenkeeper and Bad Eggs (2003), playing the role of Pendlebury.

Swain played Sam, the main character Shaun's father in 2001 coming-of-age drama Mallboy and played the role of Kenny Yallop in the 2003 film Take Away. He also had a small role as a police officer in 2007 fantasy suspense film Ghost Rider, starring Nicolas Cage.[citation needed]

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