Tiffany Lyndall-Knight

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
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Portrays:	Hybrid
Date of Birth:	October 17, 1972
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Age:	53
Nationality:	CAN
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Tiffany Lyndall-Knight (born October 17, 1972) is a Canadian-Australian actress and academic who portrayed the Cylon Hybrid in the Re-imagined Series. Born in Toronto, Canada, and raised in Australia, she is a four-time Jessie Theatre Richardson Award nominee with extensive credits in both stage and screen performances. She has been a science fiction fan for years and was thrilled to audition for Battlestar Galactica in any capacity.

Career

Theatre

Lyndall-Knight is a graduate of Toronto's George Brown Theatre School. Her extensive theatre career spans eight seasons with Vancouver's Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival, where she performed notable roles including Ariel in "The Tempest," Olivia in "Twelfth Night," Helena in "A Midsummer Night's Dream," and Regan in "King Lear."

She has performed with theatre companies across Australia and Canada, including State Theatre Company South Australia, Queensland Theatre, and Manitoba Theatre Centre. Lyndall-Knight originated the role of Emily in the multi-award-winning solo show 19 weeks by Emily Steel. The performance, set in a swimming pool and based on Steel's experience of terminating a pregnancy at nineteen weeks, garnered Curtain Call Awards for Best Professional Drama and Best Professional Female Performer. The show was awarded both a weekly award and overall winner for Best Theatre at Adelaide Fringe in 2017, and has since toured extensively, been adapted for BBC Radio 4, and made into a film.

Screen Work

On screen, Lyndall-Knight has appeared in numerous television series and films. Her science fiction credits include roles in Stargate SG-1 (playing the characters La Moor and Evalla), Smallville, Supernatural, and I, Robot. She co-wrote and starred in the Canadian film Mothers & Daughters.

Battlestar Galactica Role

Lyndall-Knight's audition for the Hybrid came through her connection to the series, as Alessandro Juliani (who plays Felix Gaeta) is a close friend and the godfather of her children. The role required her to lie in an immersion tank filled with warm water and tempera paint to create the milky, opaque appearance. To prepare for her audition, she drew on her recent experience as a new mother, imagining the character as "a child in the womb and having all of these different cells and sensory experiences sort of being filtered through the umbilical cord."

The Hybrid's dialogue, a highly stylized stream of consciousness incorporating scientific terms, poetry, folk songs, political speeches, and references to Homer's Iliad, required extensive research and preparation. Lyndall-Knight approached the complex dialogue using her Shakespeare training, breaking down the text "like a piece of poetry and find the connection for myself, so I can learn it." She created "a whole storyline that goes underneath all that stuff that's unique to me, that makes complete sense in my mind."

More recent projects include roles in Australian productions such as Red Dog, The Babadook, ANZAC Girls, Wanted, and the Netflix series Pine Gap.

Academic Career

Lyndall-Knight is currently a Lecturer in Drama at Flinders University in South Australia. She was awarded a PhD in Theatre from Flinders University in 2018 with a thesis titled "Creative Artefact: 19 weeks. Exegesis: 'Just the Actor': A Practice-Led Research Investigation into the Actor's Status in Contemporary Independent Theatre" and received the Vice Chancellor's Prize for Doctoral Thesis Excellence. Her thesis examination was exceptional for part of it being performed in front of a live audience during the 2017 Adelaide Fringe, conducted in an indoor swimming pool where audience members put their feet in the water while she performed.

She is a Full Member of the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences and the Assemblage Centre for Creative Practice Research. She co-authored The Creative PhD: Challenges, Opportunities, Reflections with Professor Tara Brabazon and Natalie Hills, published by Emerald Press. She has also published academic research on her performance work, including "19 weeks: Performing Theatre about Abortion" in Women's Studies International Forum (2020), which examines the creative processes employed by an actor playing a woman who chooses a late-term abortion following a diagnosis of Down Syndrome. Her recent research includes co-authoring "AusStage Follows the Money: An introduction to the design and functionality of the new financial table in the AusStage database" as part of analyzing the South Australian performing arts sector.

Throughout her career, she has been a teaching artist at multiple institutions, including the University of Adelaide's Elder Conservatory Musical Theatre program, Adelaide College of the Arts, and the University of British Columbia. She co-founded the Gateway Academy of Performing Arts at the Gateway Theatre in Richmond, British Columbia.

Voice and Dialect Coaching

Lyndall-Knight works as a dialect and voice coach with private clients and companies including State Theatre Company South Australia, STAN, Heesom Casting, NHK, and Netflix.

Personal Life

Lyndall-Knight has been married to John James Hong since September 9, 2001.

Industry Involvement

She is a proud member of the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA), where she served as President of the South Australian Branch (Equity Section) from 2019-2021 and National Vice President (Equity Section) from 2021-24. In her advocacy role, she has participated in industry panel discussions about the actor/agent relationship and the current state of the entertainment industry.

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