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Sarah Peirse
Sarah Peirse is a New Zealand actress who works on both screen and stage. She is best known for her roles as Honora Rieper in ''Heavenly Creatures'' and as Kate in ''Rain''. Career Screen Peirse played two very different mothers — Honora Rieper in the 1994 film ''Heavenly Creatures'', and the disaffected sophisticate Kate in the 2001 film ''Rain''. Later roles include Hilda in Peter Jackson's ''Hobbit'' (2012-2014) trilogy, as well as Dr. Gladys Bell in the television series '' Sweet Tooth'' (2021-2023). On 9 December 2024, Peirse was named in the cast for series three of Foxtel legal drama '' The Twelve.'' Stage In 2018, Peirse performed in Melbourne Theatre Company The Melbourne Theatre Company is a theatre company based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1953 as the Union Theatre Repertory Company at the Union Theatre at the University of Melbourne, it is the oldest professional theatre com ...'s ''The Children".' Selected filmography Film Televi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heavenly Creatures
''Heavenly Creatures'' is a 1994 New Zealand biographical film directed by Peter Jackson, from a screenplay he co-wrote with his partner, Fran Walsh. It stars Melanie Lynskey and Kate Winslet in their feature film debuts, with Sarah Peirse, Diana Kent, Clive Merrison and Simon O'Connor (actor), Simon O'Connor in supporting roles. The film blends elements of various genres, such as Historical drama, period drama, Crime film, crime, psychological thriller, Romance film, romance, and Fantasy film, fantasy. Based on the notorious Parker–Hulme murder case, ''Heavenly Creatures'' examines the relationship between two teenage girls—Pauline Parker and Anne Perry, Juliet Hulme—which culminates in the premeditated killing of Parker's mother. The story's events span the period from the girls' first meeting in 1952 to the carrying out of the crime, which took place in Christchurch, New Zealand on 22 June 1954. ''Heavenly Creatures'' debuted at the 51st Venice International Film Festi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mortal Engines (film)
''Mortal Engines'' is a 2018 post-apocalyptic steampunk film directed by Christian Rivers from a screenplay by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Peter Jackson, based on the 2001 novel of the same name by Philip Reeve. It stars Hera Hilmar, Robert Sheehan, Hugo Weaving, Jihae, Ronan Raftery, Leila George, Patrick Malahide, and Stephen Lang. An American–New Zealand co-production, the film is set in a post-apocalyptic world where entire cities have been mounted on wheels and motorised, and practice municipal Darwinism; its movie universe is different from that of the books. Jackson purchased the rights to the book in 2009, but the film languished for several years before being officially announced in 2016. Jackson picked Rivers, who won an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for his work on Jackson's ''King Kong'', to make his feature-length directorial debut with the project, and also brought on several members of his production teams from ''The Lord of the Rings'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand Television Actresses
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Living People
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The New Zealand Herald
''The New Zealand Herald'' is a daily newspaper published in Auckland, New Zealand, owned by New Zealand Media and Entertainment, and considered a newspaper of record for New Zealand. It has the largest newspaper circulation in New Zealand, peaking at over 200,000 copies in 2006, although circulation of the daily ''Herald'' had declined to 100,073 copies on average by September 2019. The ''Herald''s publications include a daily paper; the ''Weekend Herald'', a weekly Saturday paper; and the ''Herald on Sunday'', which has 365,000 readers nationwide. The ''Herald on Sunday'' is the most widely read Sunday paper in New Zealand. The paper's website, nzherald.co.nz, is viewed 2.2 million times a week and was named Voyager Media Awards' News Website of the Year in 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. In 2023, the ''Weekend Herald'' was awarded Weekly Newspaper of the Year and the publication's mobile application was the News App of the Year. Its main circulation area is the Auckland R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love Me (Australian TV Series)
''Love Me'' is an Australian drama series and the first original production of streaming service Binge, that premiered on 26 December 2021. Set in Melbourne, ''Love Me'' is a story about love, loss, and relationship complexity for the father, daughter, and son of a contemporary, middle-class Australian family. The season one, six-part series is directed by Emma Freeman with lead writer Alison Bell, and writers Leon Ford, Adele Vuko, and Blake Ayshford. Season two premiered on 6 April 2023. The ensemble cast includes Hugo Weaving, Bojana Novakovic, William Lodder, and Sarah Peirse, along with Bob Morley, Heather Mitchell, Celia Pacquola, Mitzi Ruhlmann, and Shalom Brune-Franklin. ''Love Me'' is produced by Angie Fielder and Polly Staniford of Aquarius Films and executive produced by Michael Brooks and Hamish Lewis (Warner Bros.). Executive producers for the Foxtel Group are Brian Walsh, Alison Hurbert-Burns, and Lana Greenhalgh. Premise ''Love Me'' is a story about r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Under The Vines
''Under the Vines'' is a New Zealand comedy drama television series created by Erin White filmed in Central Otago. Produced by Acorn TV, the show has run two seasons with a third season in development as of October 2023. Plot Two step-cousins — Australian socialite Daisy Munroe and UK lawyer Louis Oakley — inherit a declining New Zealand vineyard, Oakley Wines, in the fictional Peak View wine district located in the real wine district of Central Otago. The joint heirs have no experience with wine-making or New Zealand rural culture, and each is having financial, social, and existential crises. They become interested in the winery's future but frequently don't see eye-to-eye. Furthermore, a neighbouring vineyard wants to buy Oakley Wines and is unhappy that the inexperienced newcomers might stay. Cast and characters Main *Rebecca Gibney as Daisy Monroe: a Sydney socialite and stepdaughter and financial dependent of recently deceased Stanley Oakley. * Charles Edwards as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stateless (TV Series)
''Stateless'' is an Australian television drama series launched on ABC TV on 1 March 2020. The six episodes were released on Netflix on 8 July 2020. The series is partly inspired by the real-life story of Cornelia Rau, an Australian who was unlawfully detained under the Australian Government's mandatory detention program. The show has been criticized for misrepresenting the human rights issue of statelessness and disregarding the experiences of actual stateless people. Synopsis The series centres on four strangers in an immigration detention centre in the Australian desert: an airline hostess escaping a suburban cult, an Afghan refugee fleeing persecution, a young Australian father escaping a dead-end job and a bureaucrat caught up in a national scandal. When their lives intersect they are pushed to the brink of sanity, yet unlikely and profound emotional connections are made amongst the group. After the sixth and final episode, the epilogue states the program was based up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seven Types Of Ambiguity (TV Series)
''Seven Types of Ambiguity'' is an Australian television drama series on the ABC first screened on 13 April 2017. The six-part series is based on '' Seven Types of Ambiguity'', a 2003 novel by Australian writer Elliot Perlman. The series is produced by Tony Ayres and Amanda Higgs and written by Jacquelin Perske, Jonathan Gavin and Marieke Hardy. It is directed by Glendyn Ivin, Ana Kokkinos and Matthew Saville. Despite being announced to premiere in 2016, it was later delayed to air in 2017. Cast * Alex Dimitriades as Joe Marin * Leeanna Walsman as Anna Marin * Xavier Samuel as Simon Heywood * Andrea Demetriades as Angela * Hugo Weaving as Dr Alex Klima * Anthony Hayes as Mitch * Susie Porter as Gina Serkin * Sarah Peirse as Detective Staszic * Tony Briggs as Detective Threlfall * Harrison Molloy as Sam Marin * Nicholas Bell as Gorman * Janet Andrewartha as Kathleen * Jacek Koman Jacek Koman (born 15 August 1956) is a Polish actor and singer. Early life Koman was bor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hunters (2016 TV Series)
''Hunters'' is an American drama television series that aired on Syfy, created by Natalie Chaidez and executive produced by Chaidez, Emile Levisetti and Gale Anne Hurd. Based on Whitley Strieber's best-selling novel ''Alien Hunter'', the series premiered on April 11, 2016. It was originally going to air at 10/9c on Monday nights before the final six episodes were abruptly pushed back two hours in the schedule to Tuesdays at midnight due to the series' poor performance in the previous slot. Syfy announced ''Hunters'' cancellation on July 8, 2016. Premise ''Hunters'' centers around the disappearance of a decorated Philadelphia cop's wife when he discovers an organization that hunts down alien terrorists. Production Developed in 2013, ''Hunters'' was ordered by Syfy in September 2014 with a straight 13-episode pick up. At the time there were no casting announcements. Production began in Melbourne, Australia. Each episode takes its title from a different song by the British band ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
