KenBlackburn
- Actor
Ken Blackburn, MNZM, is a familiar face on New Zealand stage and screen. In a career spanning 50+ years he's appeared in iconic television shows (Gliding On, Shortland Street) and films — including a lead role in 1978 feature Skin Deep. Blackburn was awarded a New Zealand Order of Merit in 2005; in 2017 he received the a Lifetime Achievement award, acknowledging long-serving local actors.
Screenography
Biography
In 2017 Ken Blackburn was the third recipient of the Equity Lifetime Achievement Award, which acknowledges long-serving New Zealand actors. The award was just recognition for a stage, screen and radio career that spans 50+ years, from 60s teleplay All Earth to Love to breakthrough 80s sitcom Gliding On, to The Brokenwood Mysteries.
Awards
2017 Equity New Zealand
Lifetime Achievement Award
2011 Las Vegas Short Film Festival
Best Actor: for Antonio's Secret
2005 Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM)
For services to the performing arts
“I think the boss actually personified every headmaster I’d ever operated under, who was sitting on a superannuation job and didn’t want anything disturbed.”
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