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Donogh Rees

Actor

Donogh Rees began her long theatre and screen career after graduating from Auckland’s Theatre Corporate. Fresh from 1982’s Pheno was Here, the first of many shorts, Rees stole the screen as the image-obsessed Constance, for director Bruce Morrison. Since an award-winning turn as the injured writer in Alison MacLean’s Crush, her roles include three years on the nursing staff of Shortland Street, and Marilyn Waring in Fallout.

... thanks to a magnificently realised performance by Rees, the film's stab at the tone of the great post-war melodrama is an almost total success. London's Time Out, reviewing Constance

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Interview

Donogh Rees: From Constance to Marilyn Waring and Nurse Judy...

Interview, 2012

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Home Kills

2023, As: Hells Taioma - Film

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SMOKO

(Episode 1), As: Shirley - Web

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Bloopers - Shortland Street

2018, As: Nurse Judy Brownlee - Television

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Find Me a Māori Bride

2015 - 2017, As: Esther Partridge - Television

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Romeo and Juliet: A Love Song

2013, As - Film

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Billy

2011, As: Mrs Hastings - Television

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Lovely Rita

2007, Reader of letters by Rita Angus - Television

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Shortland Street - 2002 Christmas cliffhanger (Rachel's car crash)

2002, As: Judy Brownlee - Television

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Shortland Street - Musical episode

2001, As: Judy Brownlee - Television

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The Painted Lady

2000, As: Miss Robbins - Short Film

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The Bar

1997, As: Sarah (woman wanting baby) - Short Film

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City Life

1996 - 1998, As: Mia Fulsome - Television

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City Life - First Episode

1996, As: Mia Fulsome - Television

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The Beach

1995, As: Margie - Short Film

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Plainclothes

1995, Actor - Television

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Seeing Red

1995, As: Tea lady - Television

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Fallout

1994, As: Marilyn Waring - Television

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Fallout - Part Two

1994, As: Marilyn Waring - Television

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Fallout - Part One

1994, As: Marilyn Waring - Television

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Standing in the Sunshine - Power

1993, As: Various roles - Television

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Shortland Street

2003 - 2006, As: Nurse Judy Brownlee - Television

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Marlin Bay

1992 - 1994, Actor - Television

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Crush

1992, As: Christina - Film

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Opo

1991, As: Member of Opo Protection Committee - Television

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One Man's Meat

1991, As: The Woman - Short Film

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Starlight Hotel

1987, As: Helen - Film

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Nola - Our Own New Zealand Girl

1985, Narrator - Television

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Iris

1984, As: Kate/Simone - Television

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Constance

1983, As: Constance - Film

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One of those Blighters

1982, As: Embracing dancer - Television

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Pheno was Here

1982, As: Pheno - Short Film

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Don't Fight it Marsha, It's Bigger Than Both of Us

1981, Actor - Music video