Tobias Truvillion

Tobias Truvillion is an award-winning actor from Queens, New York. Named a 2012 Essence magazine “Top 20 Eye Candy” selection, Tobias is a philanthropist, devoted youth advocate, teacher, model. Prior to acting, he was signed to Ford Models and featured in several high profile print and commercial campaigns.

Tobias is a spokesmodel for Gulder Nigerian beer, and currently stars in an international commercial for the renowned brand. Consistent in his effort to bring quality entertainment to the masses, Tobias commandeered his latest guest-starring role as a “special agent,” on USA Network’s White Collar crime series (Season 5, Episode 4, “Quantico Closure”). In Jan. '14, he will guest star in Gabrielle Union’s BET comedy series Being Mary Jane (Jan. '14).

In ‘99, Tobias was compelled to pursue his penchant for acting and enrolled in The National Black Theater of Harlem. In ‘01 he was honored with a prestigious AUDELCO Award for his artistic excellence. In ‘06, he joined the cast of ABC’s hit soap One Life to Live. His cunning role as “Vincent Jones,” a street savvy, ladies' man, earned him a 2008 NAACP Image Award nomination for “Outstanding Actor in a Daytime Drama Series.”

Tobias has dominated pivotal roles in films such as director Antwan Fuqua’s Brooklyn’s Finest, acting opposite Will Smith in the box office record-breaker Hitch, and the highly acclaimed Paid in Full. In the Russell Costanzo-directed hit independent feature film The Tested (now on Netflix), Tobias fell nothing short of spectacular in playing “James,” a ruthless leader of the treacherous Brooklyn-based "Black Knights" gang.

True to his thespian roots, in '11, Tobias was honored to play one a Tuskegee Airmen in multi-award-winning writer/director Layon Gray’s off-Broadway smash Black Angels Over Tuskegee. In '12 Tobias was equally humbled when he landed a role in the Pulitzer Prize-winning comedic playwright Top/Dog Underdog, directed by Suzan Lori Parks.

In '09, Tobias helped implement an arts-media program at the Marion A. Bolden Student Center, in Newark, New Jersey. He is passionate about teaching inner-city youth TV production, filmmaking, acting and many other positive life essentials. Although Tobias’ students often say he genuinely inspires them, he says they truly inspire him much more.