Tim Campbell - Actor and Showman - Biography

Popular Home and Away actor Tim Campbell may feel at home in Summer Bay with the sand beneath his feet but how will he tackle a dance floor?

Tim, a long-time fan of Dancing with the Stars, asked producers if he could take part. “I’m one of those people that always asks, ‘Can I give that a go?’ Having seen castmates Bec Hewitt, Chris Hemsworth and Ada Nicodemou strut their stuff, Tim is fully aware of what he’s got himself into. “Ada said, ‘Don’t do it unless you don’t want a life, it is a huge commitment,” he says. “And I’d often see Chris lying on the floor of the dressing room asleep. But this will be a challenge and I’m looking forward to that.”

The born performer landed his first television role when he was still at school in 1993, ironically a fifty word part on Home and Away as Brad the Yabbie Creek soccer player. After school he moved to Melbourne for a year and attended the Victorian College of the Arts. The following year he returned to Sydney to pursue his dream of becoming an actor.

He says, “I always loved performing but didn’t know if I could make a living out of it!”

His first leading role was opposite last season’s Dancing star Gary Sweet in Big Sky. This was followed by various guest roles on programs such as Wildside, White Collar Blue, Always Greener and in American series Beastmaster and The Lost World. In 2002 he scored a role on the American film The Great Raid shot on the Gold Coast with Benjamin Bratt and Joseph Fiennes. But his big break came in September 2004 when he joined the cast of Home and Away as Dan Baker. Since then he’s gone on to win a legion of fans in the role and has also become a reporter for Channel Seven’s Sydney Weekender program. Tim also likes to dabble in video production and editing, and has co written and directed some musical shows over the last few years.

Tim will support Kidney Health Australia, a non-profit organisation that promotes kidney and urinary tract health through research, consumer participation, education and health service excellence. It’s a cause very close to him and his family. His father Graham is currently on dialysis after losing a kidney in a soccer accident and there’s a history of polycystic kidney disease, a genetic disorder characterised by the growth of numerous cysts in the kidneys, in his family. “Hopefully my appearance on the show will raise education and awareness about the condition," he says.