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Dame Miranda Catherine Millais Harcourt DNZM (born 1962) is a New Zealand actress and acting coach. [1] Harcourt's acting career began playing boy characters on Radio New Zealand in the early 1970s. She is best known for her role as Gemma in the 1980s TV drama series Gloss. Harcourt spent three years acting on the show, and her character was so ...
In 2019 and 2021 she was a Governor for the Filmmaker Lab and the Rising Stars at the Toronto Film Festival (TIFF). Miranda has coached Oscar, Golden Globe, Emmy, International Emmy and BAFTA-award nominated and winning performances. In 2017 Miranda co-directed NZ YA classic The Changeover with Stuart McKenzie.
At the forefront of verbatim theatre internationally, their plays include VERBATIM, PORTRAITS, FLOWERS FROM MY MOTHER’S GARDEN and BIOGRAPHY OF MY SKIN. Their acclaimed dark drama FOR GOOD, adapted from their verbatim work in prisons all over NZ, won Best Actress at the Festival Des Antipodes.
Mini Bio. For seven years Miranda was the Head of the Acting Department at Toi Whakaari - New Zealand Drama School. Miranda teaches at the National Film and Television School in London (NFTS), AFTRS and The Hub in Sydney, at Toi Whakaari, The Actors' Program and Victoria University in NZ and by Zoom with individual clients.
Miranda in her home office. Photography by Victoria Birkinshaw. They’re qualities Miranda admires in her daughter, Thomasin McKenzie. At just 20-years-old, the rising Hollywood star has scored roles in films the likes of Taika Waititi, M Night Shyamalan, Edgar Wright and Debra Granik.
Miranda Harcourt is a celebrated acting coach for TV and Film. She helps actors inhabit an authentic emotional world for their character that answers a director's vision. She draws...
Oct 31, 2018 · Miranda Harcourt - Miranda Harcourt's career has seen many notable excursions into screen work — from finding early fame on beloved soap Gloss to ambitious big screen drama For Good, which she acted in and helped produce. In 2017 she made fantasy The Changeover, with her husband Stuart McKenzie.
Miranda Harcourt got her screen break playing the bitchy Gemma on iconic 80s soap Gloss. Since then the versatile Harcourt has hardly taken a break - directing, teaching, plus acting in prisons, tele-movie Clare, and feature film For Good, among many other roles.
She is best known for her role as Gemma in the 1980s TV drama series Gloss. Harcourt spent three years acting on the show, and her character was so despicable that people spat at and insulted Harcourt in public. Harcourt received a nomination in the 1989 Film and TV Awards for best actress for the role.
May 30, 2023 · Kiwi actor Miranda Harcourt has been made a Dame for her contribution to film and theatre. Dame Miranda was named in the New Year's Honours and received her damehood at a ceremony in Wellington...
