Geraldine Brophy

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Summary

Geraldine is most remembered as the effervescent Moira Crombie from NZ’s best loved drama Shortland Street which she played for five years from 1997 to 2001. She won the 1998 New Zealand Film and Television Best Actress award for her lead role in Home Movie and was a finalist for Best Actress in the 2000 awards for Shortland Street.

Other television appearances include the recent Seven Periods with Mr. Gormsby, Serial Killers, Spin Doctors, Maddigan’s Quest and Insiders Guide to Love. She has played Detective Farnom in the film In My Father’s Den, and was also cast in Peter Jackson’s King Kong.

Geraldine is heavily involved in the New Zealand theatre scene with directing, producing and acting. In her subsequent 22 years in the industry she has played more than 150 roles on stage. She was a core member of Elric Hooper’s Court Theatre Company for over a decade, winning the Press Best Actress award several times. Her memorable work there includes leads in a range of classics, among them the title roles in Medea, and St. Joan, Portia in The Merchant of Venice, Gertrude in Hamlet, Beatrice in Much Ado about Nothing, Gwendoline in The Importance of Being Earnest, Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire, Mae in Cat on A Hot Tin Roof, Elizabeth Proctor in The Crucible, and Sonia in Uncle Vanya.

More recently Geraldine has appeared principally in contemporary plays at the Auckland Theatre Company and Wellington’s Downstage theatre. She also played the title role in the New Zealand Actor’s company Festival production of Shakespeare’s King Lear, Leah. She won the 1996 Chapman Tripp Award for Best Supporting Actress in the Downstage production of Tzigane.

In the Cinema she has been seen in the hit film In My Father’s Den and King Kong and has completed filming The Water Horse for release in cinemas 2007.

Geraldine’s previous productions as director include Alan Bennett’s Single Spies at the Court Theatre and the 2005 revival of Renee’s Wednesday To Come, at Downstage theatre. She has directed her own plays The Viagra Monologues and most recently, the premiere of her latest play, The Paradise Package at the Fortune Theatre Dunedin in 2006.
Her career as a dramatist began with the highly praised The Viagra Monologues at the Herald Theatre in Auckland in 2003. This piece on the theme of male sexuality and its expression inside and outside of relationships, features fifteen dramatic monologues divided among three male performers who play from three to eighty three.

Mary’s Gospel premiered at the Herald theatre in 2004. It focuses on the relationship of mentally disturbed Mary and her cousin /caregiver Lizzie after the death of Mary’s son Christie. The play, set in a Hutt Valley state house, is a painful and poignant look at community care and the Irish immigrant community in Wellington.

Geraldine created the role of Lizzie and also that of Karen in her best-known work Confessions of a Chocoholic, which debuted in Petone in 2004 and has since gone on to tour nationally. It tells of a teenage mother being forced to give up her baby for adoption and her search in later life for this child.

Real Estate was premiered in Petone 2005. A two hander, it involves octogenarians Norma and Lottie whose relationship is strained by Norma’s reluctance to leave her family home and Lottie’s revelation of her involvement with Rocky, Norma’s late husband.

Geraldine topped off 2008 by Winning Best Actress in a Feature Film for ’Second Hand Wedding’ at the Qantas Film & TV Awards. In ’Second Hand Wedding’ Geraldine played strong-willed and avid garage sale hunter Jill Rose.

In 2009 Geraldine won the hearts of the nation while competing on Dancing with the Stars, making it through to the semi-finals with her lively dance partner Stefano Olivieri.

Geraldine lives in Petone, Wellington New Zealand with her husband Ross Joblin and two daughters, Zoe and Beatrice. She is available for guest appearances and MCing events.

Awards

2008		Qantas Film and Television Awards		Best Actress - Second Hand Wedding		New Zealand
1996		New Zealand Film & Television Awards		Best Supporting Actress - Tzigane		New Zealand

Film

2017	Pork Pie	Andy	Four Knights Film Dir: Geoff Murphy
2013	Eternity	Veronica	Creative Coast Dir: Alex Galvin
2011	Hook, Line and Sinker	Bernadette	Dir: Andrea Bosshard \| Shane Loader
2011	The Devil's Rock	Voice of the Demon	Chameleon Pictures Dir: Paul Campion
2009	Underworld: Rise of the Lycans	Nobleman's Wife	Sketch Films \| Lakeshore Entertainment Dir: Patrick Tatopoulos
2008	Second Hand Wedding	Jill Rose	Garage Sale Productions Dir: Paul Murphy
2007	The Water Horse	Gracie	Revolution Studios Dir: Jay Russell
2005	King Kong	Maude	Universal Pictures Dir: Peter Jackson
2004	In My Father's Den	Det. Farnon	IFMD Ltd. Dir: Brad McGann

Short Film

2013	Midnight at the Pier	Actress	Inny-Willy Productions Dir: Ingrid Saker
2010	Rabbit	Peg	Dir: Jamie Lawrence
2005	Nothing Special	Marcy	Dir: Helena Brooks

Tele-Feature

2016	How to Murder Your Wife	Betty Benning	Avalon Films Dir: Riccardo Pellizzeri
2012	Siege	Kris McGehan	Screentime Dir: Mike Smith
2009	Life's a Riot	Mrs Cassey	Riot Productions Ltd. Dir: Ian Mune

Television

2016	CNT Live	Meredith Pincer	Dir: Beatrice Brophy
2009	Dancing with the Stars	Contestant
2009	Legend of the Seeker	Queen Milena	ABC Studios
2007	Welcome to Paradise	Despina	The Gibson Group Dir: Geoff Murphy
2007	Outrageous Fortune	Mrs Haggerty	South Pacific Pictures Dir: Simon Bennett \| Britta Johnstone
2006	Maddigan's Quest	Ida	South Pacific Pictures Dir: Vanessa Alexander \| Peter Burger \| Charlie Haskell
2006	The Insiders Guide to Love	Trish	The Gibson Group Dir: Brendan Donovan \| Yvonne McKay
2005-2006	Seven Periods with Mr Gormsby	Marion Patterson	Television New Zealand (TVNZ) Dir: Danny Mulheron
2004	Serial Killers	Sandy	Landtry Ltd. Dir: Mike Smith
1997-2001	Shortland Street	Moira Crombie Cochrane (Core Cast)	South Pacific Pictures Ltd

Theatre

2012	Awatea	Emma Gilhooly	Auckland Theatre Company Dir: Colin McColl
2010	Romeo and Juliet	Nurse	Auckland Theatre Company Dir: Willem Wassenaar
2009	Grumpy Old Women	Lead	Ben McDonald Productions Dir: David McPhail
2005	Confessions of a Chocoholic	Karen	Number 8 Theatre
2005	Real Estate	Norma	Number 8 Theatre
2004	Marys Gospel	Lizzie	Native Tongue Dir: Stuart Devenie (MNZM)
2004	Romeo & Juliet	Capulet	Downstage Theatre
2004	Up for Grabs	Felicity	Downstage Theatre Dir: Rachel More
2003	Middle Aged Spread	Elizabeth	Auckland Theatre Company Dir: Colin McColl
2003	The Viagra Monologues	Actress	Native Tongue Dir: Geraldine Brophy
2003	The World's Wife	Actress	Centrepoint Theatre Dir: Miranda Harcourt
2002	Noises Off	Flavia	Auckland Theatre Company Dir: Elric Hooper
2001	Rozencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead	Rose	Auckland Theatre Company
1997	Molly Sweeney	Molly Sweeney	Auckland Theatre Company
1996	Eugenia	Mrs. Bassani / Lily	Taki Rua Productions
1996	One Flesh	Claudia / Frances	Downstage Theatre
1996	Tzigane	Lisa	Downstage Theatre
1996	Vampyre Dancers	Eliza	Circa Theatre
1985	Arcadia	Lady Croom	Auckland Theatre Company Dir: Simon Phillips
1985	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof	Mae	The Court Theatre
1985	Charleys Aunt	Donna Lucia	The Court Theatre Dir: Elric Hooper
1985	Dancing at Lughnasa	Maggie	Auckland Theatre Company

Musical Theatre

2013		Pirates of Penzance			Sgt of Police	Ben McDonald Ltd Dir: Raymond Hawthorne
1995		Braindead			Nurse Travistock	Downstage Theatre

Voice

2015	Schmeat	Narrator	ProductionShed.TV
2006	Mercury Falling	Narrator	Screentime
2004	Janet Frame Documentary	Voice

Production

2017		Musical Theatre		The Sound of Music			Director		Ben McDonald Ltd Dir: Geraldine Brophy

Skills

Accents	American \| English - RP \| Irish