Toby Swift appeared in Coronation Street in June 1990 as taxi driver Mel Bailey, a colleague of Don Brennan's.
After a period as an actor, he moved into radio drama production and direction for the BBC and has now amassed a long list of credits to his name, including Goodbye Moses, For The Love Of Strangers, The Salt March, Pot Shot, Soap Gets In Your Eyes, Fallen, Ecce Homo – Behold The Man!, The Conquest of the South, The Faerie Queene, Trueman, The King's Coiner, Man with Travel Hairdryer, At the Beach, Making Waves, Serjeant Musgrave's Dance, The Travels of Marco Polo, The Long Wait, How Many Miles to Basra?, Boxing Clever, Family Cover, Angel Heights, Taken By Surprise, Comeback, Headwrecked, Shanghaied and Shipless, This Is My Car Park, Clear Air Turbulence, Is He Still Breathing?, The Devil Was Here Yesterday, One Chord Wonders, On The Beach, Trueman and Riley, Those Hard to Reach Places, No Highway, The Wild Ass's Skin Reloaded, Life After Life and The Last Executioner.
He has won the Prix Italia three times for his work.