Biography
Date of Birth
5 December 1995, Johannesburg, South Africa
Birth Name
Troye Sivan Mellet
Height
5' 8½" (1.74 m)
Mini Biography
Troye Sivan Mellet is South African-born YouTuber, actor, model and singer known for his roles in The Spud Franchise, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and Boy Erased (2018). He moved to Perth, Australia when he was two years old. Troye has two brothers and a sister, and was raised Modern Orthodox. In 2018, his family moved to Melbourne. Troye lives in LA where he has a house. He has over 6.6 million subscribers on YouTube as of October 2018, with videos ranging from song covers to challenge videos to original songs and music videos. One of his earlier videos, a collaboration filmed with fellow YouTube star Tyler Oakley titled 'The Boyfriend Tag' even won a Kid's Choice award in 2014.
Over the past couple of years, Troye has released two EPs, the one in 2014 being TRXYE and the one in 2015 being WILD. His unique blend of electro-pop and smooth melodies have taken him as high as number fifteen on Billboard's Social 50 list, which chronicles the most influential names in music today. Along with WILD and the lead single Talk Me Down off of his new album Blue Neighbourhood which came out on 4 December 2015, he released a trilogy of music videos titled Blue Neighbourhood.
Both of his EPs have debuted at number five on the Billboard Top 200, his album debuting at number seven and he has won several awards for his work, including most recently an EMA.
Trivia
Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, but moved with his family to Australia when he was age two.
Popular YouTuber.
His father is from a Jewish family and his mother converted to Judaism before marrying his father, as they agreed to raise their children in Judaism.
Was signed to EMI Australia (a Universal Music label) on his eighteenth birthday, June 5, 2013, but he kept it a secret until a year later.
In 2018, with his partner/boyfriend Jacob Bixenman, he became a dog owner of a Staffordshire Bull Terrier named Nash.
Troye was a finalist on "Star Search 2007.".
Made his film acting debut in X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), portraying the childhood James Logan, later to be known as just "Logan," and better known as "Wolverine," portrayed as an adult by another Australian, Hugh Jackman.
His public performing music career started on the local Channel Seven Perth Telethon, where he sang in 2006-2008, including a duet with Guy Sebastian, the winner of Australian Idol (2003) 2003.
His parents are Laurelle Mellet (a stay at home mom/homemaker) and Shaun Mellet (a Real Estate agent).
He is one of four siblings, with two brothers and one sister, Steele, Tyde and Sage.
He was raised in a Modern Orthodox Jewish family.
He attended Carmel School, a private Modern Orthodox school in Perth which offered religious and cultural Jewish education as well as conventional secular education. Founded in 1959, it is the only Jewish day school in Western Australia (from the school's founding, continuing at least through 2018). He attended there until 2009, after which he continued his education as a distance pupil.
He was raised in Perth, Western Australia, where his family settled after relocating from Johannesburg, Union of South Africa in 1997, and where the family continued to live until 2016, when they moved to Melbourne, in the Australian state of Victoria.
Due in large part to his huge YouTube and other social media presence, Time Magazine (USA) named him as one of the "25 Most Influential Teens of 2014.".
As of 2018, he lives in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Musically, he is primarily known as a singer, but he also plays piano and bass guitar.
Quotes
Cut cake, not wrists.
Life isn't about finding yourself, it is about creating yourself.
Don't let people stifle you because you are doing the shit that they have always been too scared to do.
Art is risk.
