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LiddyHolloway

  • Actor
  • Writer
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Probably best known for playing Alex McKenna on Shortland Street, and the mother of Hercules, Liddy Holloway wrote scripts for many of the television shows in which she appeared — including Shortland, Homeward Bound and Australian hit Prisoner. Holloway was nominated for her work in movies Fracture and Her Majesty. She passed away in the last few days of 2004, after a screen career spanning three decades.

Biography

Liddy Holloway played everyone from the chief of a marching team to Hercules' mother. Holloway first began writing for television in the 1970s, during a stint in Australia; her scriptwriting CV would grow to include episodes of Prisoner, Shortland Street, Jackson’s Wharf, City Life, and 11 episodes of Gloss.

Screenography

Fracture
2004 As: Gwen Peet Film
Without A Paddle
2004 As: Bonnie Newwood Film
Skin and Bone
2003 As Sylvie (Seymour's mother) Television
Murder in Greenwich
2002 As: Dorothy Moxley Television
Her Majesty
2001 As: Virginia Johnstone Film

Awards

2005 New Zealand Screen Awards
Nominated for Best Supporting Actress: for Fracture

2001 Nokia New Zealand Film Awards
Nominated for Best Supporting Actress: for Her Majesty

“I didn't much like it. I missed my kids and New Zealand's blue skies and good clean air and water.”

— Liddy Holloway, on time spent in Los Angeles