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Tyler Coppin (born 9 November 1956) is an American-Australian actor, playwright and American dialect coach for actors in film, television and theatre.

Key Information

Personal life and education

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Coppin is a fourth-generation Californian born in Roseville, California, the second child of Ronald and Gayle (Terry) Coppin. He was raised in the Sacramento suburbs of Rancho Cordova and Carmichael, California. The Coppin family are also long-term residents of Stinson Beach, California. Coppin attended Rio Americano High School and California State University, Sacramento before migrating to Australia aged 19, where he attended and graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art.

He divides his time between the United States and Australia after residing in Sydney for many years working in theatre, film and television. In 2001 Coppin moved to Melbourne with Jane Borghesi where the couple married in 2006. They have one son.

He became an Australian citizen in 1993.[1]

Career

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Coppin's many stage appearances include the Child Catcher in the Australian national production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Mr Mushnik in the 2016 Australian national tour of Little Shop of Horrors, Robert Helpmann in his one-man play Lyrebird: Tales of Helpmann, and Puck in the acclaimed Opera Australia production of Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream directed by Baz Luhrmann with set and costumes by Catherine Martin. In 1989, at the request of playwright Patrick White he played the role of Young Manitoba in the Sydney Theatre Company production of The Ham Funeral, directed by Neil Armfield.

Coppin has appeared in the Melbourne Theatre Company's production of Born Yesterday, His Girl Friday, Ruby Moon, A Behanding in Spokane by playwright Martin McDonagh, and as Vice Principal Panch in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, for which he wrote additional material.

His television appearances include Nightmares and Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King and Neighbours.

His film appearances include Hacksaw Ridge directed by Mel Gibson, The Spierig Brothers' Winchester and Predestination, The Death and Life of Otto Bloom, The Tender Hook, Emulsion, One Night Stand, Lorca and the Outlaws and Mad Max 2.

Coppin is also a dialect coach of the American accent, having started training actors during the 1980’s Australian New Wave film era. These include Heath Ledger, Melissa George, Joel Edgerton, Magda Szubanski, Ben Mendelsohn, Colin Friels, Marcus Graham, Madeleine Madden and Mavournee Hazel.[2][3]

He has also narrated several audiobooks, including an adaptation of the American children's TV series Bear in the Big Blue House, released by ABC for Kids.

Credits

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Film

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Year Title Role Notes
1981 The Survivor Boy Feature film
Mad Max 2 Defiant Victim Feature film
1984 One Night Stand Sam Feature film
Starship (aka 2084 or Lorca & the Outlaws) Detective Droid Feature film
1987 Twelfth Night Party Guest TV film
1993 Sniper Ripoly Feature film
Reckless Kelly Hollywood Bank Teller Feature film
1996 Race the Sun Bob Radford Feature film
The Beast Harry TV movie
1997 Doing Time for Patsy Cline Bobby Joe Feature film
2001 Jet Set Jim
2005 Three Dollars Giles Feature film
2006 Emulsion Agent
2008 The Tender Hook (aka Boxer and the Bombshell) Donnie Feature film
2009 Accidents Happen Narrator Feature film
2014 Predestination Dr. Heinlein Feature film
2016 The Death and Life of Otto Bloom J.C. Tippit Feature film
Hacksaw Ridge Lynchburg Doctor Feature film
2018 Winchester Arthur Gates Feature film
2021 Lone Wolf Hippy Karl Feature film

As writer

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Year Title Role Notes
2006 Happy Feet Contributing writer Animated feature film

Television

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Year Title Role Notes
1982 Play School Host TV series
2006 Nightmares and Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King Richard Fornoy TV anthology series
2020 Neighbours Basil Gardener (recurring role) TV series

Stage

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As actor

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Year Title Role Notes
1979 Lower Depths NIDA Theatre, Sydney
1979 The Beggar’s Opera NIDA Theatre, Sydney, Playhouse, Canberra
1979 The Ballad of the Sad Café NIDA Theatre Sydney
1979 Rumpelstiltskin Rumpelstiltskin Parramatta Town Hall with Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust
1980 Danton's Death Saint Just / Beggar Stables Theatre, Sydney with Griffin Theatre Company
1980 Inside the Island Andy Nimrod Theatre, Sydney
1980 Volpone Nimrod Theatre, Sydney
1981 The Choir Michael Nimrod Theatre, Sydney, Universal Theatre, Melbourne
1982 You Can’t Take It With You Sydney Opera House with STC for Sydney Festival
1984 1984 A.D. Arts Theatre, Adelaide with Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust for Adelaide Festival
1986 The Philadelphia Story Sydney Opera House with STC
1987 The Country Wife Sydney Opera House with STC
1987 Travelling Light Studio Theatre for Melbourne Festival of the Arts
1988 Haircut Wharf Theatre, Sydney with Six Years Old Theatre Company
1988 Strictly Ballroom Wharf Theatre, Sydney with Six Years Old Theatre Company
1988 Angels Wharf Theatre, Sydney with Six Years Old Theatre Company
1989 The Ham Funeral Young Manitoba Wharf Theatre with STC
1990 Three Sisters Sydney Opera House with STC
1991 Buzz Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney
1992 Much Ado About Nothing Sydney Opera House with STC
1992 The Heidi Chronicles Ensemble Theatre, Sydney
1992 The Cockroach Opera Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney
1992 The Real Live Brady Bunch Greg Brady University of Sydney with Footbridge Theatre
1993 The Real Live Brady Bunch - and the Real Live Game Show Greg Brady Comedy Club, Melbourne for Melbourne International Comedy Festival
1993–94 A Midsummer Night’s Dream Singer Sydney Opera House, State Theatre, Melbourne with Opera Australia
1993–94; 1995; 1997 Picasso at the Lapin Agile Picasso Belvoir Theatre Company, Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne with Playbox Theatre Company with Melbourne International Arts Festival, Playhouse Adelaide, Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney, Melbourne Athenaeum
1994 Short Circuits Seymour Centre, Sydney for Sydney Festival
1995 Tales of Helpmann Robert Helpmann Bondi Pavilion
1995 Tales of Helpmann (Bobby's Fluffy Trip) Robert Helpmann Performance Space, Sydney
1995 Saint Joan Sydney Opera House
1996 A Midsummer Night’s Dream Sydney Opera House
1996 Wasp Son Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney
1997 Pageant Miss Texas Harry M Miller
1998–99 Lyrebird: Tales of Helpmann Robert Helpmann Q Theatre, Penrith, Price Theatre, Adelaide, Sydney Opera House, Downstage Theatre, Wellington, Playhouse, Canberra, Cochrane Theatre, London
2000 The Small Poppies Butter Factory Theatre, Wodonga
2001 Helpmann Awards 2001 Lyric Theatre, Sydney
2001 Emma's Nose: A Comedy of Eros Freud Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney
2002–03 Cabaret Ernst Ludwig State Theatre, Sydney, Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne, Festival Theatre, Adelaide
2003 A Midsummer Night's Dream Puck Sydney Opera House
2004 Run Rabbit Run Andrew Denton / Roger Harvey / John Hartigan / Tom Cocking Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney
2006; 2007 The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Vice Principal Douglas Panch Playhouse, Melbourne, Sydney Theatre
2006–08 Lyrebird: Tales of Helpmann Robert Helpmann Space Theatre, Adelaide & Australian regional tour
2007 Homebody / Kabul Trades Hall, Melbourne
2009 B.C. BlackBox, Melbourne
2010 Ruby Moon Southbank Theatre, Melbourne with MTC
2011 A Behanding in Spokane Mervyn Southbank Theatre with MTC
2011 At Any Cost? Brother The J Theatre, Noosa, Ensemble Theatre, Sydney
2012 His Girl Friday McCue Playhouse, Melbourne with MTC
2012 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Child Catcher Capitol Theatre, Sydney, Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne, Festival Theatre, Adelaide, Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, Crown Theatre, Perth, Lyric Theatre, Brisbane
2013 The Dragon Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne
2014–15 Strictly Ballroom the Musical Terry Best Sydney Lyric Theatre, Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne, Lyric Theatre, Brisbane with Global Creatures
2016 Little Shop of Horrors Mr Mushnik Hayes Theatre Company, Her Majesty's Theatre, Adelaide, Comedy Theatre, Melbourne, Canberra Theatre, Playhouse, Brisbane, Roslyn Packer Theatre, Sydney, His Majesty's Theatre, Perth
2016 Dusty the Original Pop Diva Gerard O'Brien / Jerry Wexler / Drag Queen Playhouse, Melbourne with Adelaide Festival Centre
2017 Born Yesterday Ed Devery Southbank Theatre, Melbourne, Canberra Theatre with MTC
2019 Shakespeare in Love Wabash / Lambert Playhouse, Melbourne with MTC[4]
Glengarry Glen Ross Sydney Opera House

As playwright / writer / director

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Year Title Role Notes
1987 Flabbadadabbadadaddy-o! Co-writer Melbourne International Comedy Festival
1988 Haircut Contributing writer STC
1991 Buzz Co-writer / Director Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney
1992 Dance Camp 3 Director Belvoir Street Theatre for Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras
1995 Tales of Helpmann Actor / Writer Bondi Pavilion, Performance Space, Sydney
1998–99; 2006–08 Lyrebird: Tales of Helpmann Playwright Sydney Opera House, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, City of London Festival, Australia, New Zealand, United States
2004 UnAmerica Playwright Shortlisted for 2004 Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award
2005 The Minutiae of Inertia Playwright Melbourne Fringe Festival
2006; 2007 The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Additional written material written Playhouse, Melbourne, Sydney Theatre
Strictly Ballroom Contributing writer
Death of Cook Contributing writer Performance Space, Sydney
No One Here Gets Out Awake Playwright
Clover Playwright

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Dialect coach

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Year Title Role Notes
1989 Speed-the-Plow American Dialect Coach MTC stage production
1995 Babe American Dialect Coach Feature film
1996 Peter Benchley’s The Beast American Dialect Coach TV movie
1996 Race the Sun American Dialect Coach Feature film
1998 Dark City Dialogue Coach Feature film
2003 The Night We Called It a Day American Dialect Coach (Nicholas Hope) Feature film
2006 Superman Returns American Dialect Coach Feature film
2009 Where the Wild Things Are American Dialect Coach (uncredited) Feature film
2010 Torn American Dialect Coach
2019 Strange Chores American Dialect Coach TV series
2021 The Vortex Dialect Coach Short film
2021–24 La Brea American Dialect Coach TV series

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Awards

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Nominated work Award Category Result
Lyrebird: Tales of Helpmann Edinburgh Fringe Festival Fringe First Award Won
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Helpmann Awards Best Supporting Actor Won
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Green Room Awards Best Supporting Actor Won

References

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Tyler Coppin is an American-Australian actor, playwright, and dialect coach known for his versatile career in film, television, and theatre, as well as his influential work training Australian actors in the General American accent. A fourth-generation Californian born and raised in the Sacramento area, he relocated to Australia to train at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in Sydney, where he established a long-standing professional base in Melbourne. Coppin's acting credits include early roles such as the "Defiant Victim" in Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981), alongside later performances in films including Dark City (1998), Predestination (2014), Hacksaw Ridge (2016), and Winchester (2018), as well as television appearances in series such as Farscape, Neighbours, and City Homicide. He has also maintained an award-winning presence in Australian theatre, notably playing Puck in Baz Luhrmann's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream for Opera Australia, which was performed at the Edinburgh Festival. As a playwright, Coppin wrote the solo show LyreBird, a critically acclaimed portrait of dancer and actor Robert Helpmann that toured internationally and won a Scotsman Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Fringe. He is widely recognized for his expertise as a dialect coach, having trained prominent actors including Heath Ledger, Joel Edgerton, Ben Mendelsohn, and Magda Szubanski, while providing accent and dialogue coaching on projects such as Dark City (1998) and Where the Wild Things Are (2009). With over three decades of experience in accent training, Coppin continues to offer private coaching, on-set work, and classes in the General American accent at Australian performance institutions.

Early life and education

Childhood and family background

Tyler Coppin was born on November 9, 1956, in California. He is a fourth-generation Californian born and raised in the Sacramento area.

United States education

Tyler Coppin attended Rio Americano High School in the Sacramento area and graduated from the school. He subsequently attended California State University, Sacramento. During this period, he became involved in the Sacramento theatre scene. He migrated to Australia to pursue dramatic training.

Relocation to Australia and NIDA training

Acting career

Theatre and stage work

Tyler Coppin has enjoyed a varied and acclaimed career in Australian theatre, encompassing roles in drama, musicals, and opera productions. His performance as Puck was in the 2010 revival of Baz Luhrmann's original 1993 Opera Australia staging of Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Julie Edwardson. His portrayal was noted for its physicality and energy, with critics highlighting it as one of the most dynamic elements of the production. The original 1993 production later transferred to the Edinburgh Festival in 1994. In musical theatre, Coppin portrayed Mr Mushnik in the 2016 Australian national tour of Little Shop of Horrors, directed by Dean Bryant, bringing depth to the beleaguered florist shop owner. He also took on the iconic role of the Child Catcher in the Australian touring production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Other musical credits include Ernst Ludwig in Cabaret and Terry Best in Strictly Ballroom the Musical. Coppin's dramatic work includes playing the Young Man (also referred to as Young Manitoba) in the Sydney Theatre Company's production of Patrick White's The Ham Funeral, directed by Neil Armfield at the playwright's request. He has additionally appeared in Melbourne Theatre Company productions such as Born Yesterday, His Girl Friday, Ruby Moon, and A Behanding in Spokane. He performed as Vice Principal Douglas Panch in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, where he also contributed additional material to the production. These roles showcase his versatility across genres and his long-standing presence in major Australian theatre companies.

Film and television roles

Tyler Coppin has maintained a steady presence in film and television since the early 1980s, primarily in supporting roles across Australian and international productions. His screen debut came with the role of the Defiant Victim in the post-apocalyptic action film Mad Max 2 (1981), which marked his entry into feature films shortly after completing his training at NIDA. Coppin gained further recognition for his work in science fiction and historical dramas, including his portrayal of Dr. Heinlein in the time-travel thriller Predestination (2014), directed by Michael and Peter Spierig. He reunited with the Spierig brothers to play Arthur Gates in the supernatural horror film Winchester (2018), opposite Helen Mirren. Other notable film appearances include the Lynchburg Doctor in Mel Gibson's war epic Hacksaw Ridge (2016) and J.C. Tippit in the short film The Death and Life of Otto Bloom (2016). His additional film credits feature roles such as Ripoly in Sniper (1993), Bobby Joe in Doing Time for Patsy Cline (1997), Donnie in The Tender Hook (2008), an Agent in Emulsion (2006), and Hippy Karl in Lone Wolf (2021). In television, Coppin appeared as Richard Fornoy in the anthology miniseries Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King (2006). He later took on the recurring role of Basil Gardener in the long-running soap opera Neighbours for three episodes in 2020. More recently, he played Rick Vernon in 4 episodes of the TV series Good Cop/Bad Cop (2025).

Dialect coaching career

Playwriting and other creative work

Personal life

Awards and recognition

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