Born in Ashburton and educated at Ashburton College, she earned a Diploma in Acting from Toi Whakaari in 1987 before launching a career that began with a five-year stint as nurse Ellen Crozier on the long-running soap Shortland Street. Early television work included the lead in the feature Clare, dramatizing the Cartwright Inquiry, and she co-founded the New Zealand Actors’ Company in 1999. Her po…
