Charlton Hill

Hill started his acting career at age 12 after securing the semi-regular role of Wesley Craven in the long-running Australian soap opera A Country Practice.

He also appeared in commercials for cameras and snack food products including an American advertisement for chocolate and an Australian film Dead to the World as a young drug user.

Hill then joined a band under Cold Chisel's manager Rod Willis, the group writing and rehearsing extensively for a year, ultimately recording tracks with legendary Australian producer Charles Fisher (Savage Garden) only to part ways before any significant release.

After meeting UK born manager/producer Anthony Copping (Siva Pacifica, Robyn Loau) in 1998 and working with dance music producer Justin Shave, Hill spent a year going through Europe and the United States pursuing his songwriting by recording and playing in clubs and bars.

Under the guidance of his U.K. manager John Wadlow (Seal), Hill continued writing and recording between the U.K. and U.S., including with members of Lenny Kravtiz's and Dave Matthews' bands, whilst still hunting for the right producer.

Hill ultimately returned to London to record his debut album Waterline with producer Ian Grimble (David Gray, Travis, Morcheeba) at studio 2 kHz in Willesden on the 1960s EMI TG12345 Mk 2 console originally built as a mobile unit for John Lennon.

[4] Hill toured extensively on the back of the album most notably with John Mayer, Phantom Planet (with Alex Greenwald and drummer/actor Jason Schwartzman), Bic Runga, The Whitlams, George and Iota, also appearing on TV talk show Rove with Shania Twain.

[6] In 2006, Hill began producing and collaborating with Supersonic, a collective of music artists and screen composers including Antony Partos, Paul Healy, Andrew Lancaster and David McCormack.

[7] Hill began speaking publicly appearing at the renowned agIdeas Creative Masters sessions in Melbourne[8] and returned to acting with roles in Paper Giants, Underbelly and Power Games: The Packer-Murdoch Story.

[9] Having met and collaborated a decade earlier, the pair forged a strong bond and generated a prolific output of original and remix projects for the television, film, record and advertising industries.

This led to a string of projects curating re-records of well-known Australian songs including Howzat with Darryl Braithwaite (Sherbert), You're the Voice (John Farnham) and Great Southern Land (Icehouse).

[14] In 2023, Uncanny Valley signed a global administration deal with Universal Music Publishing's Classics and Screen division, joining an illustrious roster including Danny Elfman, Nicholas Britell, Cassie Kinoshi and Afrodeutsche.