| Tegan Higginbotham | |
| Birth Name: | Tegan Marie Higginbotham |
| Birth Place: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Medium: | Writer, actor |
| Education: | Dandenong High School |
| Active: | 2005-present |
| Spouse: | Paul Verhoeven |
| Notable Work: | Whovians |
Tegan Marie Higginbotham (born) is an Australian comedian, writer, and actress.
Tegan Marie Higginbotham was born in [1] in Dandenong, Victoria. She attended Dandenong Primary School and Dandenong High School (since merged with Cleeland Secondary College).[2]
Her first love was acting, until she discovered comedy in her late teens,[3] and performed her first comedy gig at the age of 17.[4]
Higginbotham has performed at every Melbourne International Comedy Festival since becoming a National Finalist at the festival's Class Clowns comedy competition in 2005.[5]
She began her comedy career performing wild fast-paced sketch shows with fellow comedians Rob Lloyd and Adam McKenzie as the trio "The Hounds", which later morphed into "Watson", without Lloyd.[4]
At the age of 21, Higginbotham began performing solo[4] with her debut comedy show Million Dollar Tegan nominated for the Best Newcomer Award at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 2012.[6]
In 2016, Higginbotham was a regular cast member for the Australian version of Whose Line Is It Anyway?.[7] [8]
Higginbotham co-hosted the controversial ABC2 pre-game, half-time and post-game coverages of the Liverpool F.C versus Sydney FC match with Julian Schiller and Steen Raskopoulos on 24 May 2017.[9] [10]
She joined Nicole Livingstone and Amberley Lobo as co-host and regular panellist on the one-hour live entertainment and sports comedy panel show called Sideliners which premiered on ABC TV on 30 June 2017.[11] [12] [13]
In March 2024, Higginbotham joined Triple M's Marty Sheargold Show as executive producer, replacing Matt Thomson.
Higginbotham contributes regularly as a sports columnist for The Age and writes a blog.
Higginbotham has won and been nominated for many awards. These include:
Higginbotham performed at the Heart of St Kilda concert in 2014 with comedians Julia Morris, Charlie Pickering, musical comedy trio Tripod, ventriloquist Dean Atkinson, Greg Champion of the Coodabeens, and comedy character Elliot Goblet,[17] to raise funds for Sacred Heart Mission, which assists hundreds of people who are homeless or living in poverty to find shelter, food, care and support every day of the year.[18]
Higginbotham loves sports and sci-fi. and describes herself as "a big nerd at heart, whose favourite things ever are Star Wars and Harry Potter."[1]
She married Paul Verhoeven in a civil ceremony in Paris in July 2019.[19]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Perspective | Darcy | Actor |
| 2013 | Adoption | Tilly | Actor |
| 2014 | Dinner For Three | Cass | Actor/associate producer |
| 2014 | The Heckler | Laura | Actor |
| 2015 | Holding the Man | Gina | Actor |
| 2015 | Oddball | Zoe | Actor |
| 2018 | For Your Sins | Lucy | Actor |
| 2023 | Jones Family Christmas | McKenzie | Actor/Writer |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Neighbours | Francis Taylor | 1 episode |
| 2008 | Studio A | Herself | 1 episode |
| 2009 | Whatever Happened to That Guy? | Tegan | 4 episodes |
| 2009 | City Homicide | Jana Mellor | 1 episode |
| 2011 | The Bazura Project | Actor | 2 episodes |
| 2012 | Rant | Herself | 1 episode |
| 2013 | Twentysomething | Applicant 1 | 1 episode |
| 2013-2015 | Have You Been Paying Attention? | Herself | 4 episodes |
| 2014 | Back Seat Drivers | Herself | 1 episode |
| 2014 | It's a Date | Abby | 1 episode |
| 2014 | Upper Middle Bogan | Jess | 1 episode |
| 2014 | This is Littleton | Writer/actor | 4 episodes |
| 2014 | Fancy Boy | Addiction Counsellor | 1 episode |
| 2014 | The 2014 Antenna Awards | Herself/host | 1 episode |
| 2014 | Live on Bowen | Herself | 1 episode |
| 2014 | Spicks and Specks | Herself | 2 episodes |
| 2015 | Community Kitchen | Herself | 2 episodes |
| 2015 | Comedy Up Late | Herself | 1 episode |
| 2015 | About Tonight | Herself/host | 1 episode |
| 2015 | Little Lunch | Writer | 1 episode |
| 2015 | How To Be Funny | Herself | 1 episode |
| 2015 | Open Slather | Writer | 9 episodes |
| 2016 | Molly | Petra | 2 episodes |
| 2016 | Bounce | Herself | 2 episodes |
| 2016 | Nowhere Boys: Two Moons Rising | Quinn Banda | 4 episodes |
| 2016-2017 | Whose Line is it Anyway? Australia | Herself | 4 episodes |
| 2017 | Whovians | Herself | 9 episodes |
| 2017 | Liverpool FC versus Sydney FC | Herself | 1 episode |
| 2017 | Sideliners | Herself | 7 episodes |
| 2017 | The Ex-PM | Floor Manager | 1 episode |
| 2018 | Show Me the Movie! | Herself | 2 episodes |