Toby Wharton

Toby Wharton

Toby is a filmmaker from South London. He is passionate about making intimate, character driven stories with a social commentary. Throughout his teenage years, Toby performed as an MC on the UK Garage music scene. He then went onto study acting at RADA and has performed extensively on stage and screen. He co-wrote and played the title role in the critically acclaimed play, FOG, published by Methuen Drama. His BFI Network short, HELD, enjoyed a successful festival run before premiering online with Director's Notes in 2024. The story, based on Toby’s own experience, explored the psychological effects of knife crime and the shame of victimhood. Toby was selected as a Film London Lodestar and shortlisted for a 1.4 Award in 2023, for his work on the film. He is currently developing his debut feature, CARNATIONS, with Joi Productions and Sona Films. The film is inspired by his time teaching at Bronzefield women’s prison.

  • Title: Toby Wharton
  • Popularity: 0.2962
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1984-01-01
  • Place of Birth: Deptford, London, UK
  • Homepage: https://www.tobywharton.com/
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Toby Wharton Movies

  • 2013
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    National Theatre Archive: Home

    National Theatre Archive: Home

    1 2013 HD

    Bullet doesn’t want to call a hostel home. Eritrean Girl was smuggled here in a lorry. Singing Boy dreams of seeing his name in lights and Garden Boy just wants to feel safe. Homelessness amongst young people in the UK is at a record high, so when the big society doesn’t work – where do you go? An inner-city high-rise hostel, TargetEast, offers a roof. Nadia Fall’s verbatim play features performances from Michaela Coel, Antonia Thomas and Kadiff Kirwan.

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  • 2011
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    Postcode

    Postcode

    5 2011 HD

    A TV drama short. After one of Clive's thugs steals from him, he sends his man, Dillon, after him. After settling that score, he goes to collect his payups, but someone is having trouble making the payments on time.

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  • 2014
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    National Theatre Live: Medea

    National Theatre Live: Medea

    7.4 2014 HD

    Medea is a wife and a mother. For the sake of her husband, Jason, she’s left her home and borne two sons in exile. But when he abandons his family for a new life, Medea faces banishment and separation from her children. Cornered, she begs for one day’s grace. It’s time enough. She exacts an appalling revenge and destroys everything she holds dear.

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  • 2011
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    Bashment

    Bashment

    7.2 2011 HD

    JJ is an aspiring MC exploding onto London's exciting outlaw urban music scene. He's got the skills, he's got the rhymes, and he's got the drive. But there's a problem — not only is JJ a white boy from the sticks — he's also gay. And gay — in the world of hip-hop and ragga — ain't good. So when JJ resolves to come onstage at the Urban Slam Finals, taking his boyfriend Orlando with him, he knows it's going to get a bit grimy... but when the couple falls foul of the Infamous ghetto-rap crew, the Ilford Illmanics and Orlando is beaten into a state of permanent brain-damage, all of their lives are changed forever in a way no one could have ever foreseen.

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  • 2017
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    Cla'am

    Cla'am

    1 2017 HD

    A dark, surreal comedy about a local man who becomes convinced that a vast conspiracy is behind the impossibly rapid gentrification in his London area. But is it all in his head, or is the truth even darker than he imagines? Cla'am is the debut short from Nathaniel Martello-White, one of the UK's leading young playwrights.

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  • 2017
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    Babs

    Babs

    7.273 2017 HD

    This is the story of Dame Barbara Windsor, the Cockney kid with a dazzling smile and talent to match. Preparing to perform in the theatre one cold evening in 1993, the cheeky, chirpy blonde Babs recounts the people and events that have shaped her life and career over fifty years from 1943 to 1993. She contemplates her lonely childhood and WWII evacuation, her decision to go from Barbara Ann Deeks to Barbara Windsor - inspired by the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, her complicated relationship with her father, her doomed marriage to Ronnie Knight, capturing the attention of Joan Littlewood and becoming the blonde bombshell in the Carry On films. Babs, ever the consummate professional, never lets her fans down whatever her personal anguish and steps on the stage to rapturous applause.

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  • 2022
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    Held

    Held

    1 2022 HD

    A teenage boy struggles to accept that he is the victim of a brutal and humiliating attack.

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  • 2022
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    Held

    Held

    1 2022 HD

    A teenage boy struggles to accept that he is the victim of a brutal and humiliating attack.

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  • 2016
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    The Aliens

    The Aliens

    5.6 2016 HD

    Nearly 40 years ago aliens crash-landed in the UK. They look like us, but are forced to live in a ghetto. Border control officer Lewis falls in love with one.

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  • 2016
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    Marcella

    Marcella

    6.914 2016 HD

    Marcella is shocked to the core of her being when her husband Jason leaves her unexpectedly, confessing he no longer loves her. Heartbroken, Marcella returns to the Met’s Murder Squad. Ten years ago Marcella gave up her fast-tracked police career to marry and devote her life to her family. With the abrupt end to her marriage and isolated from her 13 year old daughter and 10 year old son, Marcella throws herself into work to stop herself from falling apart.

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  • 2012
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    Call the Midwife

    Call the Midwife

    7.504 2012 HD

    Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.

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