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About Robyn Malcolm
Robyn Malcolm (born 15 March 1965) is a New Zealand actress, best known for six seasons of playing Cheryl West, matriarch to a sometimes criminal working-class family in the television series Outrageous Fortune.


Contents


1 Early life
2 Career
3 Personal life

3.1 Activism


4 Filmography
5 Theatre
6 References
7 External links


Early life[edit]
Malcolm attended Ashburton College, and graduated from Toi Whakaari (New Zealand Drama School) in 1987. She won an International Actors Fellowship at the Globe Theatre in London for 2003.
Career[edit]
Malcolm's first long-running television role was nurse Ellen Crozier in soap opera Shortland Street. She appeared on the show for five years and was nominated for Best Actress at the 1998 TV Guide Television Awards. She was nominated again for her lead role in television feature, Clare, based on the cervical cancer experiment at Auckland's National Women's Hospital which resulted in the Cartwright Inquiry.
In 1999, Robyn Malcolm was one of the founding members of the New Zealand Actors' Company along with Tim Balme, Katie Wolfe and Simon Bennett. The company produced and toured a number of successful stage productions throughout New Zealand.
In 2005, Malcolm took on the role of Cheryl West, matriarch of the West family, in Outrageous Fortune. Mixing comedy and drama, the show became one of the highest rating and awarded in New Zealand history. Malcolm won NZ television awards for the role including the Qantas TV Awards for Best Actress in 2005 and 2008, TV Guide Best Actress in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 and Air NZ Screen Awards Best Actress in 2007.
She won the Woman's Day Readers’ Choice Award for Favourite New Zealand Female Personality in 2005, and New Zealand's sexiest woman at the 2007 TV Guide Best on the Box awards.
Malcolm co-starred in 2010 feature film The Hopes and Dreams of Gazza Snell, playing mother to a family obsessed with go-karting and motorsports. She has also had small roles in movies Absent Without Leave directed by John Laing, The Last Tattoo directed by John Reid, Gaylene Preston's Perfect Strangers, and Christine Jeffs' Sylvia. She had a blink and you'll miss it role as Morwen in the second film of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Personal life[edit]
She has two sons. Her sister is married to Roger Sutton, the CEO of the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority.
Activism[edit]
Malcolm voiced Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand advertisements for the New Zealand general election, 2008.
She has helped spearhead an actors' union campaign to negotiate standard contracts for actors in the Hobbit films. The producers refused, saying that collective bargaining would be considered price-fixing and therefore illegal under New Zealand law. The situation escalated into international calls for an actors' boycott of the films, but the boycott was called off. Several days later, the producers said they were considering moving the films to another country as they could not be guaranteed stability in New Zealand.[10] In response, the ruling National Party made several controversial changes to New Zealand's employment laws, and passed legislation explicitly controlling people working on the Hobbit movies.
Filmography[edit]


Year
Title
Role
Notes


1990–
1991
Shark in the Park
Janet Finn
TV series


1992
Absent Without Leave
Betty



1992
Married
Maddie
1 episode


1993
Joyful & Triumphant
Raewyn
TV movie


1994
Last Tattoo, TheThe Last Tattoo
Working Girl



1994–
1999
Shortland Street
Nurse Ellen Crozier
TV series


1999
Tribe, TheThe Tribe
Ma'am
Episode: "2.2"


2000
Clare
Clare Matheson
TV series


2001
Atlantis High
Violet Profusion
TV series


2002
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, TheThe Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Morwen



2003
Mercy Peak
Liz
Episode: "When Ken Met Wendy"
Episode: "The Uses of Pork"


2003
Perfect Strangers
Aileen



2003
Sylvia
1st Woman at Ted Hughes' Lecture



2004
Serial Killers
Pauline
7 episodes


2005
Boogeyman
Dr. Matheson



2005–
2010
Outrageous Fortune
Cheryl West
107 episodes


2009
Lovely Bones, TheThe Lovely Bones
Foreman's Wife (uncredited)



2010
Hopes & Dreams of Gazza Snell, TheThe Hopes & Dreams of Gazza Snell
Gail



2010
Rake
Kirsty Corella
Episode: "R vs Corella"


2011
Burning Man
Kathryn



2012
Drift
Kat
Post Production


2013
Agent Anna
Anna
6 episodes


Theatre[edit]


Year
Title
Role
Theatre


1988
Threepenny Opera, TheThe Threepenny Opera
Lucy Brown
Downstage Theatre


1988
Rivers of China, TheThe Rivers of China
Various
Downstage Theatre


1988
Les Liaisons dangereuses
Cecile de Valonges
Downstage Theatre


1988
Judy
Various
Downstage Theatre


1988
Jones & Jones
Ida Baker
Downstage Theatre


1988
Gulls
Puppeteer
Downstage Theatre


1989
Twelfth Night
Viola
BATS Theatre


1989
Horse of Bernada Alba, TheThe Horse of Bernada Alba
Martirio
Downstage Theatre


1989
Othello
Bianca
Downstage Theatre


1989
Aunt Daisy
Various
Downstage Theatre


1990
Sweet Nothings
Various
NZ Tour


1990
Serious Money
Mary Lou Baines / Various
Downstage Theatre


1990
Macbeth
Ross / Hecate
Downstage Theatre


1990
Hamlet
Ophelia
BATS Theatre


1990
End of the Golden Weather
Various
Downstage Theatre


1990
Conquest of the South Pole
La Braukman
BATS Theatre


1991
Weed
Raewyn
Circa Theatre


1991
Via Satellite
Chrissy
Circa Theatre


1991
Importance of Being Earnest, TheThe Importance of Being Earnest
Cecily Cardew
Downstage Theatre


1991
Songs for Uncle Scrim
Various
Circa Theatre


1991
A Pack of Girls
Raewyn
Downstage Theatre


1993
Two Weeks with the Queen
Various
Circa Theatre


1993
Lettice & Lovage
Miss Farmer
Circa Theatre


1995
Othello
Emilia
Watershed Theatre


1999
Much Ado About Nothing
Beatrice
Downstage Theatre


2000
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Maggie the Cat
Downstage Theatre


2000
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Titania
NZ Actors Company


2001
A Way of Life
Jenny
NZ Actors Company


2001
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Titania
NZ Actors Company


2002
Middle-Age Spread
Judy
Auckland Theatre Company


2002
Queen Leah
Kent / Caius
NZ Actors Company


2005
Duchess of Malfi, TheThe Duchess of Malfi
Cariolla
Auckland Theatre Company


2007
Cut, TheThe Cut
Susan
Silo Theatre


2010
Happy Days
Winnie
Silo Theatre


References[edit]


^ Reid, Neil (3 January 2010). "TV star tells why she's joined Greenpeace". Sunday News. Retrieved 21 June 2010. 
^ Neville, Alice (21 March 2010). "TV stars' outrageous sexiness". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 21 June 2010. 
^ Collins, Simon (21 July 2009). "Celebs go toe-to-toe on smacks". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 16 February 2010. 
^ Hughes, Andrew; Wix, Olivia (26 November 2009). "The Job Tour: Movie and acting careers in Wellington". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 16 February 2010. 
^ "Artists take their talent to the world". The New Zealand Herald. 22 May 2003. Retrieved 16 February 2010. 
^ "Westie named NZ's sexiest woman". Stuff.co.nz. 15 November 2007. Retrieved 16 February 2010. 
^ Fraser, Fiona (16 August 2010). "Robyn Malcolm's double life". New Zealand Woman's Weekly. Retrieved 26 February 2011. 
^ Hampton, Jeff. "Unconventional lines man appointed new quake boss". TV3 News. Retrieved 12 May 2011. 
^ "Future focus at Green campaign launch". Stuff.co.nz. 5 October 2008. Retrieved 16 February 2010. 
^ Paul Harper, Derek Cheng and Amelia Wade (21 October 2010). "Hobbit loss 'potential tragedy for NZ film'". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 5 November 2011. 


External links[edit]

Robyn Malcolm at the Internet Movie Database
New Zealand Listener - Cheryl and me
Biography at Johnson and Laird
Robyn's profile and ScreenTalk interview August 2009. Requires Flash video software (53.6 MB).


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