Toby Longworth

Toby Longworth is a British actor who has appeared on film, radio and television. He is originally from Somerset, where he attended King Edward's School, Bath. He has worked most often as a voice actor, however, notably in several high profile science-fiction projects.

Between 1986 and 1988 Longworth was part of a double-act with Bill Bailey, a former school friend from Bath. He was later a regular performer on the radio comedy Week Ending.

Longworth provided the voice of Lott Dod and Gragra in "". He can also be heard in several installments of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Tertiary to Quintessential Phases", as Wowbagger and Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz. He has also appeared in many audio dramas by Big Finish Productions including their "Doctor Who" spin-off range and taking the lead role as Judge Dredd in their line of audio plays based upon the 2000 AD series.

One of Longworth's most notable performances for Big Finish was in "Judge Dredd: Solo", in which he provided the voices for all 34 roles, occasionally with the aid of vocal effects and multi-track recording but often by simply using his own abilities to impersonate multiple characters.

He has narrated two documentaries for the BBC Worldwide Doctor Who DVD range, namely "Paris in the Springtime" on the 2005 DVD release of "City of Death" and "A Matter of Time" on the 2007 DVD box set of The Key to Time.

On radio, he appeared in the 1994 BBC Radio 4 comedy "Truly, Madly, Bletchley", 1999's "Life, Death and Sex with Mike and Sue", 2000's "The Treatment" on BBC Radio 5 and most recently "It's Been a Bad Week" on BBC Radio 2. He appeared as the Electric Monk in the 2007 BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Douglas Adams' "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency". He has also appeared several times at the Mercury Theatre, Colchester.

He appeared in Episode 4 of the Second Series of Extras as a Bafta executive who has to tell Ronnie Corbett off for substance abuse.

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