Robyn Malcolm
Award-winning actor Robyn Malcolm has become one of our most loved performers, and has been voted New Zealand’s sexiest woman two years in a row.
Since joining the cast of Shortland Street in 1994, Malcolm has played a diverse range of gritty characters. Her TV credits include the tele-feature Clare, Mercy Peak, Serial Killers, and Shark in the Park. Her most recent award-winning TV role is Cheryl West in the TV 3 hit Outrageous Fortune. Malcolm’s film acting credits include Perfect Strangers, Absent Without Leave, Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, and The Lovely Bones.
As well as acting roles, Malcolm has been a panellist on How’s Life?, starred in an episode of Intrepid Journeys, and presented the documentary Our Lost War: Passchendaele – a personal story about the World War I battle in which her great uncle died.
In this ScreenTalk interview, Malcolm discusses:
- Getting the acting bug in school
- How she thought Shortland Street would be her only TV role
- The challenging experience of playing a cervical cancer survivor in the tele-feature Clare
- How playing an ex-porn star turned teacher, and kissing Craig Parker could be included in her list of career lows and highs
- The emotional intensity of the documentary Our Lost War: Passchendaele
- How proud she is that Outrageous Fortune has changed the way we see ourselves on television
- And how a prediction that her career would consist of acting as mothers and whores has come true
This video is available on YouTube to embed and distribute via a Creative Commons licence.
Credits: Interview, Camera & Editing – Andrew Whiteside
NZ ON SCREEN 2012