Acting credits
33
Established
Large and steady acting portfolio.
Actor
Rhys Nicholson
Acting
Career Snapshot
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1.0
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Movies: 4Series: 30Crew credits: 3
TMDB ID: 1818911
IMDb ID: nm7560381
Known for: Acting
Born: April 22, 1990
Age: 35
Place of birth: Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
Gender: Non-binary
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 2005 - 2025
Years active: 21
Average TMDB rating: 6.28
Other jobs
Additional Dialogue (1)Executive Producer (1)Writer (1)
Biography
Rhys Nicholson is an Australian comedian and actor known for being a judge on RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under from 2021 onwards. In 2011, Nicholson was featured in the ABC documentary GayCrashers alongside Joel Creasey, in which the duo travelled to the small town of Colac and performed a stand-up show. Creasey had been the subject of a homophobic attack on an earlier visit to the town. Rhys Nicholson stars on the show The Weekly with Charlie Pickering. In 2016, to highlight the importance of marriage equality in Australia, Nicholson publicly married lesbian and fellow comedian Zoe Coombs Marr at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. That year Nicholson and Coombs Marr were also both nominated for the Barry Award for Best Show, which Coombs Marr won. In 2021, Nicholson served as a judge on RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under, alongside RuPaul and Michelle Visage. The same year they appeared on the panel show Patriot Brains. In 2022, they played Doctor Sarkov in Netflix's Science-Fiction series The Imperfects. In February 2024, Nicholson will be a contestant on the second series of Taskmaster Australia.
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Series credits linked with Rhys Nicholson.
Crime Night!
as Self • 2 eps
2025 Series
Portrait Artist Of The Year
as Self • 1 eps
2025 Series
Claire Hooper's House of Games
as Self • 5 eps
2025 Series
A Bite to Eat with Alice
as Self • 2 eps
2024 Series
8.7
Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont Spelling Bee
as Self • 1 eps
2024 Series
6.0
Big Backyard Quiz
2 eps
2024 Series
5.5
After Midnight
as Self • 1 eps
2024 Series
5.0
Queerstralia
3 eps
2023 Series
6.9
Taskmaster
as Self • 10 eps
2023 Series
7.1
The Traitors
as Self - Contestant • 1 eps
2022 Series
6.9
The Imperfects
as Dr. Alex Sarkov • 10 eps
2022 Series
3.2
Would I Lie to You?
as Self - Panelist • 1 eps
2022 Series
5.3
Spreadsheet
Additional Dialogue • 8 eps
2021 Series
7.6
The Cheap Seats
as Self • 1 eps
2021 Series
5.1
Drag Race Down Under
as Self - Judge • 32 eps
2021 Series
5.0
Patriot Brains
as Contestant • 3 eps
2021 Series
Melbourne Comedy Festival
as Self - Host • 2 eps
2021 Series
7.6
Fisk
2 eps
2021 Series
6.4
Why Are You Like This?
as Emcee • 1 eps
2021 Series
Hughesy, We Have A Problem
as Self • 1 eps
2018 Series
7.0
Roast Battle
as Self • 1 eps
2018 Series
John Conway Tonight
as Himself • 1 eps
2017 Series
4.7
The Weekly with Charlie Pickering
as Self • 18 eps
2015 Series
8.3
Have You Been Paying Attention?
as Self - Panellist • 1 eps
2013 Series