Tobias: The Nothlit

THE ACTOR

Christopher Ralph plays Tobias on the Animorphs television series.

Born: May 13, 1977

Animorphs was his first television role. Prior to that he had done acting in the theater. Since Animorphs, he has appeared in TV shows such as Queer as Folk and The Zach Files.

Special talent: his ability to use a British-Irish accent has helped him in his many roles in Shakespearean plays.

THE CHARACTER

A few days after he became an Animorph, Tobias stayed in hawk morph for longer than two hours, thereby trapping himself and becoming a nothlit. Surprisingly, Tobias doesn't seem to mind so much being trapped as a hawk. To him, living as a hawk and being able to morph back to human form occasionally is better than the life he had before, being shuttled back and forth between relatives.

Age: around 12 or 13

Family: his father (Elfangor), his mother (Loren), his aunt and uncle, and his uncle (Ax).

Pets: Dude (a cat)

Hobbies: drawing, daydreaming, dinosaurs.

Secret: he has a crush on Rachel.

Oddball fact: He knows more about dinosaurs than the people on Jurassic Park .

Nickname: "bird boy"

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