Tommie Grabiec

About Tommie Grabiec

Tommie Grabiec was born Tomasz Antoni Grabiec on 4th July 1973 in Queen Charlotte's Hospital, Stamford Brook, West London.His father Ryszard had a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, and was a Scholar and intellectual. His mother Halina is a renowned teacher of English and Polish. Tommie is the eldest of three children. He has a brother, Christopher and sister, Joasia.During his time growing up, Tommie was raised bi-lingual, learning both English and Polish at home. He attended Chiswick and Bedford Park Preparatory School, and on Saturdays attended Swietego Mikolaja Reja Polish School. During his time at Polish school he was selected for lead roles in Polish plays, mostly because of his outstanding diction and attention to detail.At age twelve Tommie began his six years at The London Oratory School in Fulham, London. During the first semester the sixth formers put on a performance of The Importance of Being Ernest by Oscar Wilde. Tommie immediately recognised a great kinship with the Actors on stage and knew in that moment he wanted to pursue this magnificent Art.A few weeks later, the drama club was inviting new performers and Tommie, eager, with a heart filled with promise made his way through the hall to sign up. However his fear of not measuring up to his father got the better of him and he instead buried his desires of Acting deep into his psyche.He was instead steered to focus on more standard subjects such as Physics, Chemistry and Computing. The rest of his time at The Oratory was very trying; he simply preferred to be alone. These were the years when he found himself, which would become crucial later in his life. It was during this period that he became involved with The Cadets, which taught him great discipline.After graduating, he pursued an HND in Computing at The West London Institute of Higher Education, after which he began a dis-interested career as a Computer Support Engineer. His love and passion of wanting to become a Professional Actor would surface many times over the years, however he was quick to bury those feelings as he felt "only cool people become actors".After the millennium, he became even more disillusioned with his Computing career. Tommie gradually allowed his desires of Acting to surface. This culminated on the 7th November 2002 during a 'moment of clarity' when he finally made the decision to pursue a career as a Professional Actor.Nearing the end of 2002 Tommie began the Lamda Medallion Foundation course at The Academy Drama School under the superb tutelage of Tim and Judith Reynolds. During his time at the Academy Tommie was still working as a Computer Support Engineer. Because of complications in his life at the time, he did not complete his final term of study.Between 2003 and 2004 he attended courses at The Drill Hall and The London Academy of Radio, Film and Television. It was here he met tutor Simon Cathcart who was instrumental in inspiring Tommie with confidence to move forward along his chosen path. Over the next few years Tommie immersed himself as much as possible in his Acting career while still attempting to sustain his career in Computing. Of note he played the role of Slavomir Rawicz in the BBC Radio production of The Long Walk.In 2006, Tommie began his self-development in the technique of Stanislavski's System. Over the years he has refined his own technique to include many other disciplines including Method, Meisner and Spolin, taking a note out of Bruce Lee's philosophy 'have form, yet be ...

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