Oliver Driver (born 22 November 1974) is a New Zealand actor, director, broadcaster and television presenter.

Television

Driver was the host of ''Let's Be Frank'', and the Creative Director of New Zealand's only alternative music television station, ALT TV. The channel is now no longer on air. He co-hosted TV3's early morning news show ''

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'', which was cancelled on 8 April 2010. Driver played Mike Galloway, a pot-smoking nurse on the long-running New Zealand drama ''

Shortland Street ''Shortland Street'' is a New Zealand Prime time, prime-time soap opera centring on the fictitious Shortland Street Hospital. The show was first broadcast on TVNZ 2 on 25 May 1992 and is New Zealand's longest-running drama and soap opera, be ...

'' as well as starring in a comedy called ''Serial Killers'', which was based on the lives of six storyliners working on a Shortland Street-style hospital based soap. For three years he hosted the

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arts programme ''Frontseat''. Driver returned to ''Shortland Street'' in the 2010s as a co-producer and director for numerous episodes. He finished a three-year contract in 2008 of voicing advertisements for

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, a nationwide retail store in

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. Driver is known outside of New Zealand as the voice of Jenji on ''

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'' and as Master Swoop in ''

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''. He returned to the franchise as a director in both ''

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'' and ''

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'' Season 1 and 2. In 2012 Driver joined the cast of ''

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'' in a recurring role as Eggther during the show's second season. Driver is also a "Guest Panelist" and "Team Leader" on the

version of '' Would I Lie to You?''. He worked on a television show called '' Sunny Skies'' as Oscar, which premiered on

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on 8 February 2013. alongside

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Radio

Driver used to host the ''Almost Monday'' radio talkback show for

's nationwide

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radio station on Sunday evenings. The "Almost Monday" show was back on air on Newtalk ZB as of Sunday 23 January 2011 however it is no longer on the air.

Film

In 2006 Driver starred in the horror comedy film ''

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''. He appeared in

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's '' Under the Mountain'', a film adaptation of the Maurice Gee book of the same name as Mr Wilberforce, the main villain. Driver has also appeared in ''A Death in The Family'', '' Topless Women Talk About Their Lives'', ''Majik and Rose'', ''

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'' and ''

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''.

Theatre

He starred in the play ''

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'' at the Maidment Theatre,

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; in a season of

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's ''Betrayal'' fo
Silo Theatre
and in Brendan Cowell's ''Ruben Guthrie'' at Herald Theatre, The Edge, Auckland, New Zealand. Previously he was the Artistic Director of

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